I mean if we used 12 numerals it could be good, but we don’t, so…

Good! Here your kilo of sea-level water, use it wisely.

Most of the stuff you interact with daily is much more easily measured in feet and inches vs meters and centimeters

Hard disagree. The centimeter is the best measurement there is for everyday stuff, you can easily express both round values or weird ones, and don’t need to switch between two scales as you do with feet and inches (and the stupid fact that there’s 12 inches in a feet, wtf). Meters are for distances.

(this ignores decimeters, but I’ve literally never seen anyone use decimeters in my entire life)

BECAUSE THE METRIC SYSTEM IS DECIMAL AND YOU DON’T NEED STUPID CHANGES BETWEEN UNITS, MOST PEOPLE JUST SAY TEN CENTIMETERS!

Celsius is more objective, but when dealing with the standard sorts of temperatures humans are generally concerned with, Fahrenheit gives you more granularity within that range.

If you’re measuring ambient temperature, 99% of the time being more precise than 1°C is pointless, in a room you may have more variance than that from a corner to another, same goes for outside. For things where you need better precision you sure as hell wouldn’t be using the imperial system, and you could instead take advantage of this neat trick called DECIMALS.

Edit: addendum for everyday convenience: buying shit at the supermarket. The label expresses price per kilo but the packaging is in grams? You don’t even need to think about it. Drinks? They can even mix litres and kilos, no problem, the difference would be below negligible.
Here in Italy we usually ask for meat cuts in “etti”, aka hecto grams aka 100grams, so I look at a cut, I see it’s 35€/kg, I ask for 3 etti, immediately know it’ll be 10.5€ (ALSO BECAUSE SALES TAX IS INCLUDED ON THE LABEL FFS)

Oh, you!

It’s possible that my classmates who had sex just didn’t tell me

Usually it’s the exact opposite

Because my files are mine

Storage? Traffic is the real cost

I need a good CAD for designing my 3d printers that isn’t cloud based. I appreciate FreeCAD, but it’s not ready yet.

Eh, a striking dash of sincerity from him

Modern installations are supposed to have overcurrent and ground fault protection on all branches, so the fuse is somewhat useless and you have an extra protection against electrocution.

Most European receptacles only accept a plug if both prongs are pressed in at the same time, so children can’t get electrocuted without being exceptionally clever

The premise of The Good Place…and other works I imagine

I became a full-on programmer after joining Lemmy. Coincidence?

Lol I think we’d need a whole discussion on philosophy and psychology to correctly address these points, and I doubt either of us is qualified enough.

Projecting human morality on animals is… Funny, as our higher empathy is essentially a social animal’s trait that helps its group survive. Extending it to the whole universe is surely possible but who are we to say whether it’s correct or not? We can only evaluate measurable effects, such as those on our ecosystem.

Regardless, I never wanted to start a discussion on veganism, I don’t approve of current farming methods anyway, just pointing out that your definition of normal was wrong.

Well I fully agree that virtually all modern animal farming is cruel and should be reformed, yet I don’t think Veganism is the only answer.
And of course Vegans shouting “YOU! Stop eating meat NOW, you monster!”, only manages to make people LESS likely to do that.

We live in a world where there are animals that take the place of other animals’ tongue; where insects farm other insects; where parasites live in the skin of animals and different animals eat them, forming a symbiotic relationship; where predators often kill for fun.

Normal is the right word.

Lime milk probably becomes curd soon

Of fucking course they are

I use it to access the same site with different logins at the same time, or to let someone else log in to a service temporarily using my device

Bro is a sis

Are you guys crazy? A (red) wine glass that’s been filled to half of its height is overfilled.