Hey! USA Avocado industry would be thriving if Mexico wasn’t shipping all theirs in without a tariff.

But a sable genius once said. “What we have is a thing called the gasoline. We have gasoline. We have so much gasoline, we don’t know what to do. They don’t have gasoline. So why are we making a product that they dominate? They’re going to dominate.”

This was in reply to the question “How are you going to bring down the cost of food and groceries?”.

I think you can apply the same logic here. “What we have is a thing called the corn. We have corn. We have so much corn, we don’t know what to do. They don’t have corn. So why are we making a product [avocados] that they dominate? They’re [Mexico] going to dominate.”

I knew a guy named Richard Odar, pronounced odor. He didn’t go by Dick.

How is it “taking their meastaking their measurement system and fucking it up”?

USA uses inch, feet, yard. There is small, medium, large.

Metric has centimeters, decimeters, meters. There is small, medium, large.

Everyone knows a yard and a meter are about the same. Everyone also knows centimeters are tiny.

When someone who doesn’t use the metric system thinks of how tall they are, they use feet. Medium.

I’m 2 yards tall. Someone that’s 5 feet tall is 1 2/3 yards. 5 1/2 feet is 1.83 yards.

You wouldn’t use yards to measure a person. You’d use feet.

When you ask someone that doesn’t use metric how tall someone is they have to pick between cm or m. Most people couldn’t tell you in yards so how do you expect them to do it in meters?

If they just had to think in feet and then ×3 to get decimeters, it would be easy to convert. Maybe even have a decimeter ruler.

5.5 feet is 16.5 dm with quick math. Or 1.65m. Truly, it is 1.68m.

Best driver in the world couldn’t drive on icy conditions with summer tires

3 decimeters is equal to 1 foot.

1 yard is equal to 9 decimeters.

Just multiply by 3

I’m 6 ft tall. If someone asks me how tall I am in metric, I just say 18 decimeters.

An American football field is 100 yards, or 300 feet. 900 decimeters.

An 8ft board is 24 decimeters

Really not that hard to convert. Sadly no one that uses the metric system uses decimeters for some reason.

A standard doorway in US is 3 ft. Has to be that for code. 91.4 cm or .91 meters. If you used 9 decimeters it would only be .5 inch off.

You round to 90 cm you’d be .5 inch off. If you round to .9 meters you’d be almost .5 inch off.

If the metic system was shown to the US as decimeters, they would be on board more.

It’s like a large trading card that you can use to play music

Except the upside-down flag

Waterboy is a must

Iron Maiden and Slayer are vastly different

I always found it interesting that Rolls-Royce had to let vibrations and noise in the back of their cars. Moving in a car without identifiers really trips with the brain.

That’s why I use tungsten. The superior metal

You could lift the potato without setting off the trap pretty easily

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There are the “I like to keep my house at 66°F because I like to wear a hoodie or use a blanket”. They are going to say that 75°F is warm or even hot for a room.

If an average person sat naked in a 75°F room they would be happy.

68°F or 20°C is cold for me. Even 70°F or 21°C. I keep my house around 72° to 74°F and bump it up or down a degree. Coming in from mowing the yard, bump it down, sitting all day watching movies, keep it the same, cold winter day, bump it up.

Older people keep their houses at 78°+

100°F doesn’t mean “not fit for human habitation”

Anything above body temperature of 98.6°F (37°C) you are slowly cooking yourself. That’s why 100°F is important.

Yeah, they can weigh up to 2000lbs with a king-size bed. A king-size bed is 6,080 sq in.

A fridge can weigh 300lb being 36"×30". 1,152 sq in.

Fridge is .26 pounds per sq inch. A water bed is .33 pounds per sq inch.

So while heavy the weight is distributed basically like a fridge. This is assuming an empty fridge.

As for durability, a quality waterbed mattress is thick. You aren’t going to pop it or cut it without deliberately trying to.

Even if you took a knife and stabbed it from the top, it’s not going to leak until you put weight on it.

50°F is the point where you need clothes to survive. If you sat naked in a 50°F room you run the risk of your body not being able to generate enough heat and you’ll slowly die.

~75°F is room temperature. It’s in the middle on the warm side.

70°F is a cool room, 80°F is a warm room.

Whenever I think of Celsius I see it as 0° to 40° with 20° being room temperature. I hear 30°C and think halfway between 70 and 100 so I know it’s around 85°F and I know how 85°F feels.

But like 35°C. That’s 3/4 of the way from 20°C to 40°F. 100°F-70°F is 30°. 3/4 of 30 is 22.5. So 35° must be close to 70°+22.5° or ~93°F. I know how 93°F feels.

I can see how celcius is easier if you learned it as a child. 35°C would just be 35°C. But trying to quickly wrap your head around it is difficult unless you just know it. I’m sure if I said 93°F you could tell me that that is pretty hot.

You never deal with 0°C/32°F or 100°C/212°F unless you’re in a science lab.

They are nice numbers in celcius, but for real-world applications, it’s almost meaningless.

When I boil water on the stove, I don’t check if it hits 100°C. When I freeze water in the freezer, I don’t check if it hits 0°C.

Everyone can get by without knowing the exact degrees.

This is pure water at standard pressure. Higher or lower altitudes will change it, and if your water has minerals or impurities in it, it will also change it. It’s pretty arbitrary.

Water on roads can freeze before it hits 0°C outside. It can even snow above 0°C.

Fahrenheit is a very simple scale other than those two things. <0° extremely cold, >100° extremely hot for air temperature. Freezers are 0°F and Saunas are 200°F. Hot tubs are 100°F. You bake cookies at 325° to 375°, pizza is cooked at 600° to 800°F. You’ll find a lot of 25° increments in cooking.

Fahrenheit isn’t really a part of the US customary units.

Knowing both Fahrenheit and Celsius, I do think Fahrenheit is simpler for real-world applications. For science they are just numbers on a scale. Converting is the only real problem.

1 centiyard is about equal to 1 centimeter

1 miliyard is 3 milifeet

1 kiloyard is 3 kilofeet

It would be the same as the metic system having something like a “hand”

That if you wanted to express 1/3 of a meter you could just call it 1 hand. 2/3 meter would be 2 hands.

If you were using this metric system and knew that something had to be two hands long. You’d simply call it 2 hands instead of .66 meters or 66 centimeters.

If something had to be 2.5 hands long it would be .825 meters or 82.5 centimeters

Meter and yard are both random established lengths. Using miliyards or millimeters is exactly the same.

US customary units just have smaller unit names you can call them if it is convenient. If you never wanted to use anything but yards like the metric system does meters, it’s possible. Don’t want to use miles? Then megayards.

I do think 1 simple system that everyone uses is needed and the metric system is simple.

But if stupid Americans can use the “difficult” system, it can’t be too hard.

That’s a misconception for water beds.

High-quality water beds have stabilizer pads in the mattress

The idea of the old crappy 70’s water bed where they slosh around is a poor idea.

You aren’t laying on a ziploc bag barely filled with any water.

It’s more like a ziploc bag filled with molasses. If I pushed a corner down it would slowly bring up everywhere else. If I stopped pushing a corner it everything would slowly go back down.

Say I have a massive gut and sleeping on my right side. I’m displacing X amount of water. If I was to turn to my left side I am still displacing the same amount of water. Just the empty space that use to hold my gut would be filled with the water from the other side where my gut is now. Someone on other side of bed wouldn’t even feel it because the water underneath them doesn’t change.