Most countries in the world are “really metric countries”. And yes we do use the cm a lot for measurements inside the 1-100cm range.

Yeah, I’m pretty sure it is an American thing. As to why, well, you said it: “bitching about learning anything beyond you might as well be illiterate”.

I would expect that to be the case in France. Other European countries have a wider selection to choose from.

Since the IIII usage is common in the Middle Ages and even into the Early Modern Period, when nobody believed in Jupiter, that is obviously just something somebody made up.

It’s very valuable as a technology in terms of trackability and transparency, and establishing ownership.

That has yet to be proven. Other technology already exists which does this, and that is currently being used as that by most of the world.

Yes, it is a well known fact that Americans have more people per capita.

Tuna pizza is the best, and Americans are so missing out on it with their bizarre narrowminded gatekeeping of pizzatoppings. Americans have like 3 things that are allowed as pizza toppings, which is so strange considering pizza should just be a vehicle for whatever goodness you want to put on it. Even the otherwise food conservative Italians have figured this out with their pizza al taglio.

It definitely does not work in an environment where lazy aggressive apatheists will support a system they don’t like by claiming it can’t be changed.

If everyone stopped tipping tomorrow, the only people that would be hurting are the people who serve.

Who would then not want to work in those places that depends entirely of tipping. And then it hurts the owners of those places.

How are you unable to realise this? It is all connected.

Unfortunately as this very thread shows, a lot of Americans are mindbogglingly not in agreement about that. Which explains a lot about the current predicament of the country.

How long do you think that wait staff will stay in the restaurants where their wage consists of tipping which doesn’t exist?

What if everyone didn’t expect you to tip? You vehemently defending the tipping system is part of why EVERYONE expects you to tip.

That kind of aggressive apatheism is what makes the system continue.

It works both ways. If noone tips then noone will work at restaurants where their wage consists solely of tipping. That is also how capitalism works.

Yeah, I burned 100s of music cds as well about 20 years ago, and stored them in those books with slots. They weren’t stored in a car, but still about a quart of them doesn’t play anymore, and I am sure it won’t be long before none of them will. All my store bought cds of the same age or older still works fine though.

Homeburning is not a good physical media alternative.

And just imagine how much AI slop is being generated every day, and the output is increasing exponentially. It can be very long until the AI slop has completely drowned the human produced part of the internet. A lot of vested interests would be very happy with a situation where you can’t trust facts and information.

Of course we can’t really know what goes on behind the scenes. But obviously these kinds of games are designed by committee (namely board members). So every single detail is going to be dictated from above, and as new games are released by other publishers with new succesful features these dictates changes mid-production. I can’t but imagine that the development of live service games are a complete shitshow from start to finish.

So perhaps at some point they decide to get rid of the entire mess and start afresh, only for the process to beging again of course.

The thing is that nuclear energy could have been used to replace other things that uses oil energy instead. It could have lowered carbon emissions, instead it just adds to energy expense.

As long as there continues to be succesful live service games, they will never stop attempting to make new ones, because the succesful ones are the most profitable forms of entertainment ever devised.

Of course there is only room for a limited amount of live service games on the market (since gamers only have one life to waste on them), so most of them will fail, and many of them even before leaving the drawing board it seems.

Combined with the trite “Fahrenheit is for humans, celsius is for water”.

Because this generational strife nonsense is the most succesful distraction from the actual class war which is occurring. If they can get people in the same exploited situation to fight amongst themselves for any reason except their economic status (age, skin colour, gender, nationality etc.), then the oligarchs have succeeded a little bit with their propaganda efforts.