For science and engineering, Celsius is ideal,

The SI base unit for temperature is Kelvin with 0 K being the coldest possible temperature. 273.15 K is the melting point of ice. But it’s a lot better suited for temperature differences. Celsius is only a derived unit.

And well, all units and measurement systems had a lot of changes over time because some things turned out to be impractical or inaccurate.

Initially Celsius had 100° as the freezing point of water, 0° as the boiling point of water. Fahrenheit had 0° as the coldest temperature he could produce and the (wrong) average human body temperature at 90°. Kelvin was initially defined via Celsius, that got reversed, they have the same scale. There is also Rankine, which starts at 0 like Kelvin, but uses the Fahrenheit scale.

And the US partially uses SI units anyways, all units are derived from them to use their superior base unit definitions. This system came into existence to have unit definitions that are better reproducible and change less over time. Since everything was redefined and all numbers changed anyways, they also tried to make use of the “new” decimal representation of numbers. And new unit names were nice to create some general units, in contrast to foot and pound, which were always different from place to place, at times even from city to city.

I don’t expect the US to ever switch. The US switched to international yard and pound instead of switching to a decimal system. After US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa agreed on that one, all countries who remained using these units had a uniform definition for them. Since then you don’t need to know any longer which yard or pound it was. Though not all units got standardized by that.

And some countries didn’t drop all old units and metricized some instead. Even SI kept the ton(ne). You can’t know what 1t exactly means without knowing the context, it can be 2240lb, 2000lb or 1000kg (~2204.6226lb).

Robots can just outsource CAPTCHA solving to humans from poor countries.

That’s “emergency praise” in German.

That’s probably rage baiting to some degree. It annoys both sides. But sadly it can start new conspiracy theories.

probably to pay sb in advance to falsify the death certificate

They don’t even operate outside of North America.

Which liberal? Just normal liberal or social liberal, which is called liberal in the US?

For Classical Liberalism and Neoliberalism that’s not surprising since they support an unregulated free market and all liberal movements are pro private property, which both is opposed by most social movements.

Federation bubbles indeed make people get along better.

It can be too much as you can see in low budget trash movies.

And food and taxes and going to a doc when they get ill and make vaccations more expensive

You are only properly straight if you even hate your own dick.

It was always hard to verify images. Images with timestamps and weird specific instructions were a good way around that, but AI…

moobs

Here in Germany you can get back money that somebody took via direct debit, but not if you transfer it yourself. And many supermarkets use direct debit at their own risk after some automated risk analysis, because it has lower fees than girocard/maestro/vpay. (They extract the bank code from the card and print a form for direct debit authorization with the receipt printer)

There are enough that accept upfront payments in cash when you check in.

Though there are governments who give you money

Disgusting. How can I get her address?

They probably also have queer ones.

Though … I only referenced their official instance descriptions, not how their users actually behave or position themselves.

• lemmygrad is openly marxist
• hexbear at least identifies as leftist
• division by zero uses Anarchist Code of Conduct

this isn’t traaa