Everyone else is focusing on whether the rest of the world uses metric and not that fact that water pressure at a given faucet or shower head will be governed by bernoullis equation which will take 99 things into account such as:

The max height of the water reservoir

The height of your faucet

The design of the pipes leading from the reservoir to your faucet

Air pressure

The pumps in the system

Etc

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Tourism is part of capitalism. You are correct.

You used the word “just”.

I guess my angle is if we agree the market isn’t just, then maybe you just pay everyone equally? Don’t all people need to eat and have a place to sleep?

Candle or incense. Sure. I think someone who grew up Orthodox could say for sure.

Just?

Like divide profit by a weighted hours worked average for all employees?

Don’t jerk off with sewing machine oil

I think what makes this argument true is that it’s FICTION. Even in a dystopia that is super bleak, with an ending where everyone dies, we can remain hopeful that it’s cautionary fiction.

You could make similar arguments about any other fiction or genre as well. “All dark comedies are hopeful because they show the human ability to make light of bleak and tragically ironic situations”. “All horror movies are hopeful because the fictional creature at the center of the story cannot be real”.

Usually when people say “gender is a social construct” they mean that when your 7th grade biology teacher told you there are males and females, there was more to the story.

If someone tried to tell you that you can fit everything into either the “food” bucket or the “not food” bucket, you would definitely have questions. How do we define food? Food for whom?

If you define food as something edible, with nutritional value… How much nutritional value? A stone covered in lichen probably has nutritional value and I might try to eat it if I were starving to death. Raw grains of wheat might have nutritional value but also might make me sick of I ate them whole, but we all recognize they are generally edible and are usually processed into bread.

“Food” is a useful concept in that it can usually help guide humans toward sustenance. It was never meant as some airtight philosophical concept.

Every word is created through human interaction.

Are you saying that because most people wouldn’t consider acorns and dandelions edible, or worth processing into food, that the definition of food is meaningless?

Or are you saying that yes you can technically est mud and rocks (what is salt, anyways?) that food is a meaningless concept?

You can drink your coffee from a bowl but that doesn’t make it a mug.

Crack didn’t exist in 1790 so how could the founders have wanted a law to prevent the possession of both it and guns? Check mate historians.

I’ll just put my phone in the trunk in the future.

It’s called a “system” normally.

I have a captain crunch whistle so I hear it anytime I want to!

I think the simpler answer is, you are so right, it barely has to be valorized. It sells itself.

I think the long answer is that porn addiction is a real thing that can affect people. Also lots of people in charge of things like sex education have historically been prudes who see masturbation as some sort of gateway to promiscuity.

Orgasms are normal, healthy and necessary.

Whoa. Side Walk Slam. I heard their EP in middle school and then haven’t thought about the since.

People raise good points about the federal system.

Let’s say a governor did hire a hitman and murder is a state crime. All of a sudden we now have a conspiracy and ideally the federal government would take jurisdiction of what is now a federal crime. At that point, the governor would need to bribe or threaten the president to pardon these federal crimes…

Similarly, if it was the president orchestrating some sort of conspiracy, he might be able to delay or pardon federal offences, but as we are seeing with the 2016/2020 election crimes of Trump, a patchwork of state and federal cases are made all being handled (or delayed) via different powers.

Federalism is sort of good in that power is relatively diffuse. But it breaks down when 50% of courts and other officials just decide their friends can do as they will.

I didn’t watch the video but it’s pretty easy to buy the parts to make a watch and assemble it. Buying a fully ready movement obviously makes it easy.

Pick out about $300 in parts on a website called Lucius Atelier. Buy a $80 tool kit. And a few hours to assemble the movement and dial with the hands into the case… Voila.

Too much sugar, and likely not a ton of fiber.