iLStrix

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When writing an argument (and your biased) you start with the opinion you don't want to support and end with the opinion you do want to support, because people usually remember the last part of an argument better than the first part. That is at least when assuming people ACTUALLY read (and the classical rhetoric theory)... but so many people have fucked attention spans, so I'm not sure if this is still accurate.

The site is quite confusing, but I don't understand why you think the result is unexpected. The general trend between left/right leaning is absolutely 100% what I expected, but there are some parties that surprise me.

It's crazy how different people experience things. I find it annoying and less pleasant to watch YouTube at 1080p since they downgraded the bitrate and locked it behind premium. I actually almost always watch at 4k or 1440p60 even on a phone screen just because of the bitrate.

Hey, idk if you have a solution for me, but UserNS is not allowed to run together with Pod anymore. Since there is so insanely little information on quadlets, I'm having a hard time starting this up. Did you update yet and found a solution to the problem? (I'm new to podman, at least I got jellyfin somewhat running haha)

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Engineering software and games. I've always enjoyed competitive games and so do many of my friends, so I have to have a dual boot on Windows. Unfortunately, I barely use Linux as a result.

You're right, I get it and I believe you, I just never came across pounds being used as a force before. It makes sense (?) that Americans sometimes use it like that after reading up on it and your explanation, it's just insanely impractical in any kind of engineering work haha. To be fair kg is used interchangeably for weight and mass as well, which can be really confusing, too.

I kind of disagree with the pound part. I'm not American and I have never heard pound being used as a force, only as weight (e.g. someone weighs 180 pound). The only time I came across pounds being used as force, it was specifically defined and named pound-force (it was also a norm, so it makes sense that it was very accurate with words). I would also argue that a civil engineer needs force as a force, not as a weight. So Newtons or F= mass * g. The rest I agree with, though. It does make sense historically, but not really in today's world. To be fair, I'm probably quite biased in that regard.

Interesting, I have never even heard about slugs before. That is even more insane :'). I just had a quick look and pound is used with 2 different meanings: One being defined as mass and another often related to pound force (I had to work with that last one in the past with springs and I hated it), because of course pound doesn't just have one defined value... Seriously, wtf is that system haha.

I'm not sure I understand your comment. Mass is measured in kg in the metric system and with pounds/ounces etc in the imperial system, so your solution is not exactly a solution, since mass as well as volume use different units in America vs most of the rest of the world. America is one of like 3 (?) countries that still uses the imperial system, which is even different to the British imperial system.

I agree with using mass as measurement, and would add what the other commenter said. Mass solids, volume for liquids etc, but please in metric units.