ExtremeDullard

And even there, they don’t get no sunshine. the beach and the sunny islands in the background are reserved for the Epstein class. The salaried workers can stay in the cave.

This caption is incorrect: they’re not asking you for money, they’re just taking it.

That’s just the name of US customary units: they’re usually called standard. Just like the old British customary units were called imperial when there hasn’t been a British empire for quite a few decades.

They just also speak standard.

Well they shouldn’t. It’s harmful.

Yet somehow Celsius seems to speak to everybody outside the United States just fine.

Norms may be dumb but they make everybody’s lives easier when everybody follows them.

As for temperature specifically, there’s nothing inherently better in Celsius or Fahrenheit. It’s just a choice. The only unit that is superior to all of them is the Kelvin because it has a true zero, but it’s not commonly used in everyday settings.

Which units are best doesn’t matter: the point is, nobody else uses standard units anymore, apart from a couple oddball countries, and only one of them - North Korea - isn’t trying to extricate itself from it.

Everybody else tries to be a part of the world’s technical and scientific communities by speaking the same language, but of course America has to be different. Because of course it does… And it’s tiring if you ask me.

Americans have compatibility issues with the rest of the world, and it’s not getting any better - in more ways than this one.

I didn’t watch, because of corrupt FIFA and Temu Hitler

I always tell people who ask me what I did with my PhD: I managed to get a good education and become a trusted professional despite the schooling system.

The only thing my degree did for me was prove to my first employer that I was willing to sit tight for years and go through the pointless motion of getting a degree. I managed to grind through to the end to get an idiotic piece of paper, and that told him I was unlikely to flake out on him after 3 months on the job. That’s all my degree was ever useful for.