Cataphract @ Cataphract @lemmy.ml

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I've been on this train for a while that governmental organizations like the Bureau of Consumer Protections needs to have a site where all manuals, blue-prints, and technical specs need to be required to sell consumer products. I want to be able to 3d print or easily provide a machining service with the specs for a part ESPECIALLY when the original manufactures discontinue any type of support.

Same goes for all software or digital services that someone has purchased but the company folds or discontinues. I should be able to run my own servers or basic services off my own setup when that company no longer provides what I paid for.

Good information, I've been doing the temperature thing more and more but for cooking I haven't switched (gonna have to refigure the food safety guidelines so I'm not putting myself in danger on that one).

I think you've convinced me to officially do a marathon, that seems like a great and healthy way to consider the larger distances and wrap my head around it!

My concern with this take is "what are we considering this effect to be?" If we are taking the average republican who wholly considers themselves to be "Conservative", their party was overtaken by extremists who are the antithesis to what the goal of that meaning is.

I don't want a "Blue Maga" which takes the party away from progressive policies in an attempt to drum up fanatical support "against the tyrannical reds" while in reality they continue destroying the democracy we have. An example is a new DNC who wishes to prosecute and deport those who are on the right (there are examples on this site of individuals who are "progressives" but think the "right" should all be rounded up).

When people say they want a "tea party" I think it's way to vague. Talking about the "effectiveness" of how the GOP has been changed is just completely scary, since in reality it just became a mask off-authoritarian free for all. I don't need a Corporatized DNC to decide they no longer need the decorum of piece-meal policy that helps citizens since they know everyone has no other choice (like what happened with the GOP).

Again, I really hope a "Left Tea Party" would cause the DNC to capitulate to progressive ideology, but that's not what happened on the conservative side (as evident from the big beautiful bullshit-bill).

edit: taking=talking, fixed a confusing sentence

Ty for the Mnemonic, definitely something I was looking for and even responded to someone else with the musical treble clef one. The thunder one will definitely help and something that can be passed onto kids (everyone basically knows the miles one). I'm gonna have to start compiling a list because all of you are awesome and there's a lot of information on here.

Just wish signs in the states were posted with KPH as well but that's extremely rare, I still associate maps with mileage and arrivals based on MPH so will be harder to transition that then anything else I imagine (120 miles away so about 2 hours on a hwy going 60 mph which is average for states).

Not arrogant, I get the hierarchy statements being mundane especially for someone who's inundated within the systems themselves. The honest answer to this is sometimes everyone doesn't learn at the same pace or get upset when they're confronted with something different. For instance, if I were working with someone that didn't complete school or had a learning disability, I could see them eventually grasping milli and centi (I still hesitate with if I'm using them properly with MM/mm/mM) but then hekto-deka is another tall order for someone who just wants to get off work and have a beer without the hassle lol. A school yard saying that uses order listing as an acronym for a Mnemoic like EGBDF in music (Every Good Boy Does Fine) would be cool.

Mostly though, it's more about like the "foot" measurement thing. Something like wrapping my head around the average body weight, cool factoids like comparing volumes of water or like someone commented that 100 is the boiling point, etc.

edit: @donuts@lemmy.world just responded with the mnemonic I was looking for lol.

Would it though? I'm not convinced of that. We already know what the party should look and act like based on actual progressive parties and policies around the world (even some past actions in the states itself), we really just need a name to know it by for everyone to get behind.

It's the whole problem-solution thing, doesn't matter what the name of the website or company is, we just need something to step in and fill that gap.

didn't know that one, was referring to the Land of Gallon one. Get to prince and princesses then everything would get fuzzy, recently acquired a hot-plate thing with conversions on it so remembered even less of it till I looked it up again.

Good idea with the hands, I kinda already had this with the other system (different methods though) so now I gotta do the new ones and sear that into my brain. I've always been interested in a tattoo like the myth busters guy with a ruler on his forearm but I like the hang-ten one and seems cheaper/less painful.

It could be useful at times, in my experience it's just two people trying to remember this strange ass poem and end up having to look it up anyways.

I was confused on the "cup" part because I wasn't sure if you meant like a typical drinking glass or the actual cup-customary measurement until I looked at it (another reason i dislike the measurement system...a cup of coffee is so damn vague at times). I'll definitely remember the torso one.

knew about the 0 but not the 100, good shit.

That's why I never believed in the rhetoric of "it's too late to consider 3rd party!" before the elections. Here it is just 6 months later and "we don't have time for that". Is it disingenuous then to just say there will never be time for that, like it is being implied here?

edit: just saw your other comments, I hope your DNC-tea party plan works with some effect. It's harder for those who have voted for decades for a party that just isn't responsive to the citizens so we'll see I suppose.

I would like to encourage more people on this platform to humbly bow out and respond with integrity when they don't know versus the "20 replies of arguments" that drown out the conversation. You might be correct but I think your response is in poor form (unless we're just celebrating being the lowest parts of social media).

lol how is capitulation the answer to authoritarianism but decentralization isn't? I feel like I'm missing something from your arguments because it just seems circular and all the while condemning the very infrastructure you're currently using on Lemmy (with obvious benefits) over centralized social-media.

lol you must really not talk to anyone outside of the internet if you think anything you said sounds remotely sane or like you aren't an entitled child trying to sound smug.

They need to be removed

whatcha mean by that bud? I think you're getting confused with all your edits.

lol defaulting to an instance attack, you're such a parody.

Anyone can see from our last conversation that even when replying in good faith you just refuse to engage, there is no point in trying to bring any sort of real conversation with you.

Anyone can also see from your modlog, you've been crying about voters for months and are still continuing to do so.

idk wtf the award pivot was trying to do or what you're even trying to say lol. Again, I'm glad I could engage with you so someone else doesn't have to and possibly thinking you might actually be a real person to have a conversation with. The only reason I've gone this far is so people can actually see the links and how you respond. Blocking doesn't help if it just means someone else has to put up with you instead.

Oh no! Someone who engages instead of downvoting! Imagine that! I must put more emotion into it without addressing anything the person said!! lol I've already seen where this is going which is why I figured I would save anyone else the trouble and reply to your constant whining before someone else got sucked in. Thank you for making it clear why you're doing all this though, you have no other way to express yourself or move on. Good luck with all that, if I run into you in the future I'll make sure to stick with one reply and watch ya fizzle out. Maybe this all might help you in the long run.

I think there's a little bit of confusion and talking past each other. Would really help if people used actual party names so there's less confusion but I understand once you bring names in then people are more likely polarized about the context.

They will never get power because of the first past the post voting system

(meaning there's no hope for a 3rd party, better vote D against R)

I’m not voting for Neoliberals anymore.

(not voting for D)

I think at this point even saying "opposition party" is muddying the waters. Are they opposite on Immigration/border policy? War? Taxation? Voting Rights?

Could be partially true if they are actually from America. Lots of places have old tracks that are not in use but left in places like downtowns (sad and ironic). Definitely not an excuse but possibly some context.