Sadly, at that point, you need to know the decimal equivalent (this happpens often with precision measurement) for instance 1/4 is 0.25 etc. I agree that it is horrible for a tape measure style measurement, but it isn’t so bad once you’re used to seeing the fractional equivalent as a decimal.

That was also part of my point. I am tired of people trying to impose one unit or series of units being superior when they are all just made up.

I may get a lot of flack for this, but here is my perspective as someone with over 20 years experience as a machinist in the US. Over the course of my career, I have become more than comfortable using metric, imperial, and us custimary units.

For science? Metric is fantastic. For literally everything else - us customary is faster, easier, more understandable, and actually more approachable in terms of trying to actually build something.

Let’s start with simply building something as the first example. Fractions, (and angles relative to fractions) are more intuitive to work with, faster, and overall easier to work with than decimal equivalents. One could easily spend more time trying to measure 1.905 cm vs very quickly dividing 1 into 3/4".

Furthermore, units are just that. An arbitrarily agreed upon measurement. None of them make any “more sense” than any other. If the Royal Society had agreed on a hogs head as a standard unit of volume, we’d likely still be using it.

I may be rambling at thus point. However, my entire point here is that there is objectively no such thing as a superior unit of measure. They are all made up and have uses that they are best suited for.

Roll back over, put the phone in your right hand and use the phone to get the little bit of distance. Being truly lazy requires ingenuity.

It also has the superior theme song.

He had a wild life, so who really knows. But there is a huge conspiracy theory around his death. QAnon is even involved. I don’t personally give it any legitimacy, but it is a deep interesting rabbit hole. I can’t find a source that I’m willing to actually link.

I always love to see Spaceballs references in the wild, but this one in this particular context is simply brilliant.

Yeah, not only are these crocs instead of gators, the roads are straight with no pot holes

I have never experienced any of this. Have you only been in cars that have been made after 2015 or something? Cars don’t make most people sick. Food doesn’t get anywhere in the car with even a modicum of care. Last point is moot because with even the slightest amount of care, food doesn’t drop into the car. Unless you are trying to scarf onion rings while flying down the interstate, I don’t see any of this ever happening.

This one hurt.

Of all video game bosses in existence, fighting game bosses are the most bullshit of them all. You typically have to find some way to cheese them to death before they do it to you.

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Unfortunately for you, yes. Please report to the nearest Tetley factory for processing.

I’m fairly certain that at least most of us that post at least semi regularly in tenforward recognize each other. There’s a few doing a lot. My posts have dropped off lately because of creative burnout, though so I’m not around as much.

I’m a fan of Free Beer because it’s beer that can be free as in free Beer and free as in freedom.

I use trig heavily at work.

OK the serious problem with using a loop count like this is that by the time someone has read previous context etc, the image has completely stopped. This practice is infuriating to me. If I wanted to actually see thus gif animated, I now have to not only know the context/show etc but have no idea what was being implied. Gifs are already a horrible bandwidth hogging format, but looping it costs no more of that. Removing the primary point of posting a gif in a comment here only causes loss of context.

This ties into the comment I was going to make separately. For context, my dad recently passed. First father’s day without him. My mom asked to watch a movie that meant something to the both of them because they saw it together in a drive in on release and it was very memorable because the technology and techniques used were fascinating at the time. She complained that it wasn’t on Disney+ or anywhere.

You may have guessed it, but she requested Song of the South. One serious moral quandary later, I got it ready for her to watch.

Tomorrow is gonna be rough, but at least my sailing might bring some good memories for her.