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@JonKramer

My car speedometer uses mph. I've heard NASA refer to "Nautical miles". I don't think "everything" has be done metric. Science and medicine use metric anyway. I think beverage sellers are required to have liters on their products, and all food products need to have nutritional stuff on the package which is in metric, but I don't know which dept. requires that (maybe the dept of agriculture).

@Deglassco

They have a free speech right to say what they want, and we don't want to change that. (What if some want-to-be dictator actually messed with vote some day in the future, we'd want to have the right speak out about that.)

But if Hannity conspired with Trump in an attempt to execute a coup d'état, then they can go after him for that.

@JonKramer

>"the USA has a weird hybrid system, where officially everything has to be done metric, but then translated to imperial for public consumption."

What "offical" requires that? DOT does stuff in miles, NOAA does stuff in Fahrenheit...

@JoshuaACasey

qoto doesn't like folks advocating violence, unless in self defense or against countries that invade Ukraine.

Trump was accused of asking the Russians to break into the computer systems of his political opponent during the 2016 election and steal embarrassing emails. He has denied the allegation.

Here are the results from a careful investigation and analysis that answers that question once and for all...

(very short video from CSPAN)

@cwizprod1 @friendly @stux

Back in the 1970s, "hacking" meant developing software straight from the keyboard without any upfront design, in an unstructured manner. Good programmers could do the design work in their heads and still produce decent code that way, but many of them barfed out spaghetti code. (A large program was only about 30-40KB back then so it was easier to get away with that.)
In the early 1980s, Hollywood twisted the meaning to mean "breaking into systems" (because Hollywood has a big microphone).
Now the term is pretty much ambiguous. I'm not sure which way stux meant it here -- probably the Hollywood version.

@goldclusters

>"I think it's a good work but it only has 9 citations."

Einstein's "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" (special relativity) had no references and only mentioned five other scientists.

fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/s

@lupyuen

I first read that as "Penguins that know how to count using " 😂

@xasherry

Are gig-based hailing apps called taxi service there. In the US taxis are differentiated from ride hailing.

@TDL99 @freemo

I wrote a quick program recently to test this for myself (before I found others), but I wrote it in an interpreter that wasn't fast enough to discern human temporal acuity. Then I got bored and went on to something else. 🙂

Benjamin Franklin published his proposed kite experiment on May 10, 1752.

A little more than a year later on July 26, 1753, Russian physicist Georg Wilhelm Richman electrocuted himself trying to conduct a version of the experiment.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Wi

@schmitzel76

Apparently players have the right to bare arms in this game.

@stux

@peterdrake

Also, they are exposed to the air, which is not sanitary, particularly when they are located in or near a restroom with a toilet.

@empiricism

That toot that I referenced was a joke.

@hasmis

Look how pretty climate change is... (sarcasm)

Which rag published this?

@peterdrake

Sometimes I get lazy and break that rule and repeat myself because I get lazy.

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