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Cake day: June 25th, 2023

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  • Itā€™s good youā€™re able to talk sanely about it.

    But I donā€™t understand the anger around the subject at all.

    Itā€™s simply a subject of personal autonomy and body integrity.

    Imagine being a grown man or just a teenager and being forced to perform that operation without your consent nor any explanation (as itā€™s mostly useless out of social norms and potentially harmful). I guess youā€™d be furious, at least.

    Thatā€™s it.




















  • Yes, only places where it is mixed is the anglosaxonyā€¦ try to open to the world.

    I use pounds because I do archery, where my bowā€™s power is measured with that unit, which I translate as 1/2 a kg. I donā€™t care that itā€™s inaccurate.

    There are also inches (I think) for Tv and computer screens, which is shitty.

    But no one else uses imperial.

    I worked with croncrete blocks (prefabricated building elements) some years ago and I was all the time making fast calculations of sizes and weight and I cannot imagine making that in imperial (admittedly because I am not used, but in present case it would just have been massively impractical)