

We could start by replacing broken ones with digital clocks using the money that would’ve gone towards fixing such machinery.
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Stuped person says stuped things, people boom
I have trouble with using tone in my words but not interpreting tone from others’ words. Weird, isn’t it?
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We could start by replacing broken ones with digital clocks using the money that would’ve gone towards fixing such machinery.


It’s not just about digital privacy. It never talks about data privacy. It’s about consumer protection and social media’s nature being harmful. The only European law violations mentioned are anti-scamming + “𝕏 refuses to make its public data available to researchers”. It’s also explicitly in favor of KOSA, which lets the FTC ban anything it wants from children’s eyes online. It’s quite implied that the article supports banning social media for youth.


Is comparing social media to a dangerous drug over the top? Not according to the U.S. Surgeon General’s office, which in 2023 released an advisory titled “Social Media and Youth Mental Health” (download it now before RFK Jr. suppresses it!), which summarized extensive evidence of mental health damage to children and adolescents who consume excessive amounts of social media.
Okay, that comparison’s still wayyyy over-the-top.
I know metric time is largely forgotten but at least have a basic understanding if you want to talk shit.
The “second” as we know it today is an SI, aka metric, unit. Modern time calculation is designed and revolved around it. The exact words “metric time” as SI knows it is for intervals, which is a domain completely different to the time of day you’re talking about. A metric system for time of day is either exactly what we have or nonexistent. There is no such things as imperial time; US customary units are only for length, area, volume, mass, and weight (and that’s all the metric activists are asking to replace). If you’re going to be pedantic about something at least be right about it. And here I expected to find interesting discussion over decimal time… (which, I’ll still note, is neither what you’ve sent which appears to be invented randomly in 2024, nor ever part of the metric system.)
So you see science and some can bottlers using liters and kilograms while the other things are imperial quarts and pounds. How the heck is that better? Now you’ve got to convert when you want to add some bottled water (lead pipes, anybody?) preparing your cookie bowl unless you’re up to buying two different sets of measuring cups, and mental physics and chemistry that involve any sort of calculation are impossible.
You also might want to learn about all the different units of length, area, volume, mass, and weight that the metric system thankfully completely replaced and thus harmonized. Read about why Columbus thought the Earth was that small—he thought the mile was as long as a mile. US customary is simply yet another local set of units that happen to be American with British names. The only reason the imperial countries haven’t made a change is they gained capital and Western influence without being ruled by France or the Soviet Union.


“They said, ‘Well, Saudi Arabia killed a journalist,’ and rest in peace, Jamal Khashoggi. I’m sorry that he got murdered in such a heinous fashion. And also, look, bro, Israel’s killed 240 journalists in the last three months, so I didn’t know y’all were still counting.”
he does have one well-thought message, albeit with incorrect addressing and postage
now that i look it up, he does already condemn israel much more than palestine (and gotten flak for it). he even called israel a war criminal back in oct 2023. i wonder how this hasn’t caused certain senators including MAGA to try and cancel him yet…
that infamous Ctrl+Alt+Del strip was drawn up for a reason
https://books.google.com/books?id=4Sg5sXyiBvkC&pg=PA438 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK532992/