Not in defense of the imperial system, but if you’re curious why it’s so arbitrary, it’s a crazy story about untangling a ton of proprietary guild measurements. The mile itself isn’t quite proprietary (it was defined as 8 furlongs, and you can blame the English for ruining a perfectly good roman measurement) but they needed to make it a certain number of chains, rods, yards, and feet, plus a few other obscure measurements I forget about. Naturally that results in a stupid conversation rate (mostly vs yards and feet since it was basically a different system).

Why we still use it, dunno. I can see an argument for keeping feet and inches for things like carpentry (in the similar way I like hexadecimal in programming) but miles is not that. It’s about as logical as this point as fahrenheit, which is to say it’s outdated nonsense.

I don’t know, but now I’m calling them wall warts because this community corrupts us, lol.

Or like 95% of my college students. :(

It’s ok. I see a tilde. And yes, ~

That’s a pretty valid point, although the rear view usually also blinds me at the same time. Usually I get the full three mirror flash, one from behind and two on the wings, lol. I really like my mirrors, though, they have a lovely convex mini-mirror on them so I get a little extra glance. I still look over my shoulder, but it’s nice to detect someone hovering there before I even make my decision to lane change.

Not to be nitpicky but those locations are all over the place, lol. I wonder what the actual percentage of programmers need to pivot to slop cleanup duty.

This bothers me because the car door is like 2/3 of the mirror. I get it’s probably the angle of the camera but I swear there’s so many people out there with side mirrors misaligned.

Me when I’m unwilling to lane change once on the freeway.

Appreciate the context. Still feels excessive, but at least more warranted than a lot of their other activities. I really hope they just go after corporations, but I doubt they will.

Like a Tupperware container but bigger

I rarely see the rides in use, but my guess is the permissive parent already gave the kid a tablet and tablets are way more addictive than mall rides

Right?! I had a terrible incorporeal rat problem, always phasing in and out of reality. It got so bad the human exterminator lost her mind for simply seeing a glimpse into the void beyond.

But my cat? He got it under control.

Can confirm. My dad’s getting a little too into his AI on his phone. He’s got deep emotional problems and is an alcoholic, but I don’t think his bot is going to do him much good. That said, men’s ego makes it hard to open up.

Yeah, I’m glad most indie games don’t do that. My wife was surprised I wanted to preorder a game with no bonuses, I think she has worked for corporate a little too long.

Oh. So this might actually be a legit reason to do preorders, lol. I too got caught in payment progressing hell but I finally got it.

Holy cow those lyrics are dark, I somehow never noticed. Lol

Given the number of antichrist/rapture movies reviewed on God Awful Movies, I regret to say I think I already know what this guy is gonna talk about. And yes, sold out might actually be real people and not just a bribe-- a ton of people believe in this culty nonsense which is very upsetting.

I wonder sometimes if Thiel himself truly believes it or just sells it religious rubes for easy money, but maybe it’s both. Just like cocaine, the advice is to not get high on your own supply.

I’ve never had a car tire pop but I have had a bike tire pop and it is alarming to say the least.

Teaching stats and using percentages now and again, it’s not really that useful of a tool most of the time since you aren’t usually working with an easy number like 50 (Or 10, 20, 25, etc.).

Usually what I’m doing is breaking it down into manageable parts (factors), so 6% is 5% + 1% which I can usually do in my head regardless of the number (or if 5% hard, work in increments of 1%, which I can multiply by 6).

It’s a pretty common strategy to with with factors. Just surprised how many of my students don’t know it!

Huh, it really is always on his mind.