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techwooded@lemmy.cato politics @lemmy.world•Bernie Sanders blames election loss on Kamala Harris choosing billionaires over the working class0·1 month agoTelling too that the Democratic leadership said after the fact that one of the reasons they lost was that they relied too much on small donators instead of billionaire donators. Disgusting
techwooded@lemmy.cato politics @lemmy.world•House passes Trump's budget in razor-thin vote after dramatic all-night session0·1 month agoWould like to point out that part of this bill includes a provision that makes it illegal for Courts to hold the Government in contempt for not complying with their past, present, or future injunctions:
H.R. _____, Title VII § 70302:
No court of the United States may use appropriated funds to enforce a contempt citation for failure to comply with an injunction or temporary restraining order if no security was given when the injunction or order was issued pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(c), whether issued prior to, on, or subsequent to the date of enactment of this section.
techwooded@lemmy.cato Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Celsius and Metric users of Lemmy, is there any cute tips or sayings that help generalize a measurement?7·2 months agoFellow American convert to the metric system. Converting, in my opinion, won’t get you very far in actually understanding the measurements. To this day, the conversion rate is something I have to dig through my memory for.
For me what helped with the temperature scale was breaking it into chunks based on what I would wear, 10°-15° would be a pullover sweatshirt, 15°-20° a track jacket, etc, which got me to stop focusing so much on the conversion. Eventually you just get a sense of these things, I think that most people can only really feel a difference in air temperature of about 1°C. 0° being the freezing point cutoff is super helpful for judging things like potential road conditions if it’s wet.
For distances I first got the sense of how far things were in kilometers by being a runner and knowing distances around my neighborhood as to how they lined up with running a 5k, 10k, etc. For meters, at my height and gait, my stride length is about a meter long. A little bit on the shorter side of things, but it still helped me get an idea as to what a meter looked like in physical space, even if it’s off a bit. Centimeters and millimeters are a different story. Hard to find perfect analogs in the world, but you’ll find something eventually. I think for example long grain rice can be ~1 cm in length for example.
The biggest lesson in my own journey and seeing a lot of people online talk about trying to do the conversion is that people get overly concerned with precision when first making the switch. If you actually think about most of our daily interactions with measurements, they’re much more approximate. For example, the difference between whether it’s 71°F or 73°F is rarely pointed out. The temperature is just “in the low 70s”. We say that something is “about 20 miles away” which is almost an implicit 7-8 mile range. I would guess 80% of the time, this is how we interact with the units we use, so focus on that. No one is going to get upset if they ask the temperature and you’re off by a few degrees C.
In terms of mnemonics like US kids get in school for some of these things, everything in the metric system is a multiple of 10 from everything else, which is what makes it great. Also remember that at room temperature, water’s density is 1 g/mL, so if one of capacity or weight is easier to visualize for you, it’s a shortcut to the other. Standard disposable water bottle in the US is 500 mL or half a kilogram of water.
If only metric time had caught on too…
techwooded@lemmy.cato DeGoogle Yourself@lemmy.ml•What apps do you use now that you're degoogled?0·2 months agoStoryGraph is my favorite for a Goodreads replacement
I always feel sorry for the fans no matter what because I know the feeling when your team loses or crashes out. I don’t feel sorry for the team itself though. Referees could’ve done better and Florida is a dirty team, but this is how things go the deeper and deeper into the playoffs you get. Leafs do this to themselves as far as I can see. They’ve run the same core team back almost ten times now and have barely made a dent because Nylander is the only one that doesn’t turn into a pumpkin every year when the going gets tough
A Theory of Justice by John Rawles
You know it. I’ve found that most of the news sites still do RSS feeds for their stuff
Some other good ones are Semafor and 404Media
NPR, BBC, and RTÉ primarily. Subscribed through RSS
Idiocy, Actual