Nobody wants to spend the money to convert entire industries

There are multiple industries who prove this isn’t a blanket rule.

There’s a reason you buy soft drinks in 2 L bottles and not by quarts or whatever unit you use for that kind of size. Because of alcohol sizes, people also intuitively know 500 mL (which I believe has pretty much replaced 16 floz_us bottles) as well as 700 mL bottles for wine, etc.

There are a bunch of other examples where metric is seeping in.

I feel very sorry for US based engineers though, since many industries don’t really have the same push to convert, RIP.

I also LOVE seeing that many American social media creators have started using “grams of protein” (they still say per “serve”, instead of per 100g, which is silly, but in time they might notice that grams per 100g is a percentage and see how much more useful that is for comparison purposes).

There’s even this guy who weighs food to see which is more “justified” for the price. Eventually his viewers will know how much things weigh.

We’ll get ya, in time. In time you will be assimilated, resistance is futile ;)

Europeans

This is the the real way I know you’re American lol.

It’s the WHOLE WORLD other than you (and perhaps special mention to the UK and Canada being weirdos using multiple systems)

Either ~4.55 L (imperial) or ~3.79 L (US).

Ugh. Why do they do this to us?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallon

Have they heard of tax?

I think this deserves a chuckle at most. I visited Sydney with 2 other people, and the train was literally going within 250 metres of the hotel we booked.

Didn’t take the train because a cab worked out cheaper, absolutely ridiculous.

Public-private partnerships, not even once…

Definitely, but we can’t let this crime against humanity happen in the first place.

TIL “get fucked” is more commonly used in Australia. I thought this was international.

Who is we here? I don’t think most countries have actual democracy. Certainly not the US. But the problem is not education (though, depending on what country you live in, perhaps that is of serious concern)

Democracy should extend to the workplace, and is only really possible without capitalism. You can never remove the influence of private capital on politics under capitalism.

For clarity. I am a socialist, I just took issue with the idea that socialism = whatever warped idea tankies have.

Socialism without democracy isn’t socialism, in my opinion.

Watch the tankies lose their minds over this…

You also get paid while studying. What a concept :O

Nah, this reinforces the idea that men only ought to behave when there’s another man to keep them “in line”.

Understandable when necessary for physical safety.

I reckon that gym woman’s original wording was perfect.

This person’s font setting is miniscule

China doesn’t claim to be communist, “yet”.

China … [is] socialist

No it isn’t, Socialism “with Chinese Characteristics” is doing some extremely heavy lifting.

It’s a capitalist state, pretty evidently. The government having state run companies doesn’t negate this. Further, those state run companies are not beholden to their workers, nor the people at large.

Without worker control, that’s not socialism.

Workers unions are functionally illegal (the state run one, most certainly does not count as it doesn’t authorise strikes in almost all circumstances, as far as I’m aware).

Look up China Tobacco, a great example of how just having industries nationalised, doesn’t make something socialist.

China is just as bad as the rest of the capitalist nations, they’re just bad in their own unique ways.

All the cool comrades know that “socialism” in the mould of Stalinist USSR or China isn’t a great model.

Inb4 USA is worse! - nah, they’re both capitalist states. I’m not a “China Bad” believer, much of what we hear in mainstream western media is overblown or inaccurate to manufacture consent for a conflict between us.

The ruling class in all countries simply use the rest of us for their own gain.

I feel like most liberal democracies* have a large section of the population who think the welfare state, or UBI, is socialism. But yeah, the US seems particularly nuts on the definition of “socialism”.

* Using this term liberally (heh) - capitalism making actual democracy impossible notwithstanding.

That’s what I was thinking. In what country can a foreign country sue you in your own country?

And this is a very stupid state of affairs, in my opinion.

Fuck the crown, and the former Governor General John Kerr specifically

Recently?

You’d think they’d change DNA test methodologies so this sort of thing doesn’t happen again

Practically everyone.

If you were searching for a tutorial, it was a fantastic time saver.

The irony of having this in the middle of the article