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I don't understand why anyone would want or agree to live under an HOA.
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Skippy McPants posted:I don't understand why anyone would want or agree to live under an HOA. Americans love big government, but only if it's not democratically elected.
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Jul 19, 2021 09:15
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Skippy McPants posted:I don't understand why anyone would want or agree to live under an HOA. same but about becoming a cop
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Skippy McPants posted:I don't understand why anyone would want or agree to live under an HOA. I'm guessing a motivation for many people is it's one of the more efficient ways to limit your exposure to black people
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FFT posted:same but about becoming a cop I mean, I get that one. It's an easy road to power over other people for the assholes who're into that kind of thing. Failed Imagineer posted:It's one of the more efficient ways to limit your exposure to black people Yeah, okay, that tracks. loving up your own life for the chance to hurt minorities is very on-brand for suburbia.
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Jul 19, 2021 09:18
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FFT posted:same but about becoming a cop When you want to murder adults, children, and dogs with impunity, but are scared that if you enlist, someone might shoot back.
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Jul 19, 2021 09:23
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Skippy McPants posted:I mean, I get that one. It's an easy road to power over other people for the assholes who're into that kind of thing. that's exactly how HOAs continue to exist
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Jul 19, 2021 09:51
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People who never intend to sell their homes but are constantly concerned over its perceived value.
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Inhabitants of the most dominant imperial power are obsessed with exerting power over others for some reason.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:People who never intend to sell their homes but are constantly concerned over its perceived value. Yeah, it's not like your can borrow money based on that perceived value. For instance, my mom convinced her bank that her house is worth around 1.000.000 dollars (in Denmark, also very rough exchange rate) compared to the around 200.000 she bought it for in 1995. Then she borrowed 400.000 with basically zero interest and no payments. The system is super cool if you're a boomer who bought when I was 6, but less so if you're a millennial. And even less so if you're a millennial whose parents didn't buy a house, or if they disowned you for being gay/elitist/intellectual.
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HootTheOwl posted:Measuring is either done by tools where the unit is irrelevant because the measurement is whatever the tool said it is. Or measuring is done by approximation and then the unit is best expressed by something everyone understands. Metric units, created from constants in nature are inscrutable values derived from theory and guesstimations. Imperial units are from parts of the human body or things you have lying around your home. In this way they are vastly superior, and in the precision case they are equally useful because again the tool does the measurement for you. The only time metric units are better is when converting between units. Where their arbitrary nature means we can define the unit of volume as exactly 1 to 1 with the unit of length, and also again 1to 1 with density. But once you leave the classroom and teacher is no longer looking over your shoulder to see if you memorized the equation or are cheating on your phone it becomes irrelevant that you need to look up the weird constant to convert between them. Imperial is loving terrible in the kitchen or measuring stuff. there is nothing useful about measuring things as 3/64s of a quarter of three-thirds of an inch. Fractions should not be in anything done without a computer or calculator, period, there's nothing intuitive about them. My eyes instantly glaze over honestly when I have to read a non-metric measuring tape. How the gently caress is that easier to use? Like sure maybe in construction or engineering or something I don't know, but around the house its not at all useful because "what do you mean the unit with the bigger number is smaller?!" Same goes for stupid teaspoon, tablespoon three fifthy thirds of a quarter of a pound. gently caress off with that poo poo. Using grams in cooking is easier. I have a lovely scale that will always be there, I dont need any rules of thumb, I can tare it and measure things easily, so just give me the goddamn weight of the recipe items instead of "one well rounded quarter tablespoon" or whatever bullshit. Oysters Autobio has issued a correction as of 13:14 on Jul 19, 2021 |
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If ur making edibles you have to measure in metric This says a lot about our society Now please let the topic die or I will begin posting increasingly deranged hot takes on the subject
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Jul 19, 2021 13:12
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People who grew up with imperial find inches something they can easily visualise. People who grew up with metric find centimetres something they can easily visualise. People who grew up with significant lead contamination argue that since they find inches easier to visualise inches must be some form of platonic ideal measurement perfectly suited to the human form.
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Jul 19, 2021 13:21
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Splicer posted:People who grew up with imperial find inches something they can easily visualise. the metric system is superior because my doink is 25.4 millimeters 
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Jul 19, 2021 13:24
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The mistake in metric was making the gram the weight of 1 mL of water instead of 1 L
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Oysters Autobio posted:Imperial is loving terrible in the kitchen or measuring stuff. Second: You mentioned two tools which give you whatever values you need. Who cares what the number is? The recepie could be measured in how far a fart travels after a butterfly flaps its wings, as long as the number on the scale matches the number on the recepie it's fine. Finally, an infinate lol at "measuring things out to the precise level is easier than just taking out the bigger spoon and takeing a scoop"
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Jul 19, 2021 13:29
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Skippy McPants posted:I don't understand why anyone would want or agree to live under an HOA. Depending on where you're looking to live, it can be functionally impossible to buy without being bound by a HOA or condo association. Saying "just buy a house that's not covered by a HOA" can be like saying "just get a job where you make enough money to live." Technically feasible, functionally impossible. I live in the metro area that produced Shelley v. Kraemer, and our HOA has a new set of covenants that was drafted in 1949, a complete coincidence i'm sure. (Our HOA is - luckily - fine these days. We have a lot of common ground adjoining our property, so I'm glad to not have to deal with it).
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Splicer posted:People who grew up with significant lead contamination argue that since they find inches easier to visualise inches must be some form of platonic ideal measurement perfectly suited to the human form. Counterpoint: The normal curve. The standard deviation in average foot size is small enough that 99% of the peopulation can use their own foot as a foot substitute and still be "close enough" HootTheOwl has issued a correction as of 13:40 on Jul 19, 2021 |
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Have you ever had your blood lead level tested?
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tokin opposition posted:If ur making edibles you have to measure in metric quote:Now please let the topic die or I will begin posting increasingly deranged hot takes on the subject
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GotLag posted:Have you ever had your blood lead level tested? 
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The Nazis used the metric system, and every time someone uses it they're doing a microagression against survivors of the Holocaust
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HootTheOwl posted:Counterpoint: The normal curve. The standard deviation in average foot size is small enough that 99% of the peopulation can use their own foot as a foot substitute and only be "close enough" Counter-counterpoint: I have size 12 UK feet so pretty much exactly a foot, but I don't think I've ever used it to measure anything. And smaller sizes are related to the standard 12 via subtraction of barleycorn units, which is pretty lol no matter which side you're taking
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Failed Imagineer posted:Counter-counterpoint: I have size 12 UK feet so pretty much exactly a foot, but I don't think I've ever used it to measure anything. And smaller sizes are related to the standard 12 via subtraction of barleycorn units, which is pretty lol no matter which side you're taking UK? You mean a metric hellworld where they cucked you so hard that you were given a gold standard measuring device but any time you want to measure something you have to find or purchase another device?
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The only thing the metric system is better at is measuring how big a lib you are since it's all arbitrary rules that require you to buy stuff to understand. It's literally a market solution to measurements when you already have two loving feet!
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HootTheOwl posted:UK? You mean a metric hellworld where they cucked you so hard that you were given a gold standard measuring device but any time you want to measure something you have to find or purchase another device? I don't really know what any of this means or what it has to do with cuckoldry, also I'm not from the UK
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Failed Imagineer posted:I don't really know what any of this means or what it has to do with cuckoldry, also I'm not from the UK Then use your feet and not a ruler.
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Jul 19, 2021 13:51
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imperial and other customary units are great when you need to divide things and want a complete fraction. metric is poo poo once division comes into play
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HootTheOwl posted:Then use your feet and not a ruler. No, that would be cucked as gently caress
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Imperial was invented by the barefoot is legal people And I support it
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BonHair posted:Yeah, it's not like your can borrow money based on that perceived value. I was going to make a joke about why would retirees need to be taking out bank loans, but it's the US. They probably need to take out a loan just to buy bandaids. HootTheOwl posted:First: You can express values in decimals. 0.046875 Inches is an acceptable expression of length and you'll find is equally useful as saying 4.6875 milli-inches. That's what makes metric units so awful for aproximation, there is simply one unit, the Meter, which rapidly loses utility which is why they had to create so much shorthand for bunches (or fractions) of meters. The meter is the unit, the kilometer or centimeter is just shorthand that first requires you to have a robotic understanding of the unit. Seriously dude, get your blood lead levels checked out because that's just embarrassing. Metric uses variations based on simple orders of magnitude. If I want to approximate something, I'll say "about 3cm". If I want half that, I'll say 1½cm. I'll never have to worry (or care) if the 7/32nds socket is smaller than the 9/23rds socket when I'm working on my car. What's the next socket up from the 10mm one? It's the 11mm one. Imagine having to remember all those loving fractions and doing maths any time you want to tighten a bolt. quote:here is simply one unit, the Meter, which rapidly loses utility which is why they had to create so much shorthand for bunches (or fractions) of meters. Totally unlike and inferior to Imperial with its inches, feet, yards, fathoms, nautical miles, fluid ounces, long tons, barleycorns, grains, stones, carats, dram, pennyweights, fluid drams, bushels, packs, quarts, gallons, furlongs, rods, cords and et loving cetera. EDIT for extra lol:  Sure is such a bother to use metric and not the inhaled lead as a child standard. How many leagues to a spindle? Yeah, work that out in under 20 minutes and without a calculator. Fake edit: HootTheOwl posted:The only thing the metric system is better at is measuring how big a lib you are since it's all arbitrary rules that require you to buy stuff to understand. It's literally a market solution to measurements when you already have two loving feet! just lol Megillah Gorilla has issued a correction as of 14:50 on Jul 19, 2021 |
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GotLag posted:The mistake in metric was making the gram the weight of 1 mL of water instead of 1 L Why? 1 kg (1000 gram) of water is one liter (or 1000 mL). Your proposal doesn't make much sense. That's the beauty of the metric system, everything is easily convertible because there are no weird in-between measuring systems! Fame Douglas has issued a correction as of 14:48 on Jul 19, 2021 |
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HootTheOwl posted:Then use your feet and not a ruler. you are so wonderfully precious
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HootTheOwl posted:Counterpoint: The normal curve. The standard deviation in average foot size is small enough that 99% of the peopulation can use their own foot as a foot substitute and still be "close enough" Adolf Glitter posted:Pull up thread
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My feet aren't even close to being one foot long, and I'd say most people don't have feet that long. Being able to approximate weight pretty easily and compare things sold at the supermarket without doing unintuitive conversions is one of the huge advantages of the metric system in daily life. Imperial is great for capitalists, because it makes products and their prices harder to compare. Fame Douglas has issued a correction as of 14:54 on Jul 19, 2021 |
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Seriously dude, get your blood lead levels checked out because that's just embarrassing. quote:I'll never have to worry (or care) if the 7/32nds socket is smaller than the 9/23rds socket when I'm working on my car. There's no reason why you can't just come up with an abreviation for half inches, quarter inches, eighth inches, ect. The only time using powers of 10 is easier is if you're converting between them but you shouldn't If you're so worried about being too dumb to understand your socket wrench set that's kinda the point ain't it? That units should be measured in easy to understand terms. How is your socket wrench set any worse if instead of saying 1/8 it says 1ei. Or does it have to be mm because your love the candy and you need to think of candy or you won't tighten the bolt? quote:Totally unlike and inferior to Imperial with its inches, feet, yards, fathoms, nautical miles, fluid ounces, long tons, barleycorns, grains, stones, carats, dram, pennyweights, fluid drams, bushels, packs, quarts, gallons, furlongs, rods, cords and et loving cetera. quote:How many leagues to a spindle? Yeah, work that out in under 20 minutes and without a calculator. Or in your terms: How many meters to an AU? Why would you calculate between this in any aplication where you wouldn't have a calculator?
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HootTheOwl posted:Wow, having different units to measure different things is good actually. Instead of trying to shoe-horn everything into whatever power of ten you think is most useful in the moment. It's really dumb and makes things very hard to compare.
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