If even one of you gets a post removed during one of these bit struggle sessions you failed the bit and should feel immense shame. Doing a bit successfully is Praxis.

Find things to struggle about that doesn't get out of hand. It's important to let off some steam now and again but do it in a way that doesn't harm your fellow comrades or add work to the mod team.

I'll start: Some beans are better than other beans. Like kidney beans are bad nasty icky beans but black beans are actually amazing.

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[–] edge@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

carpenters

Floors are measured in square inches.

construction

Building materials are in customary, screws and nails are in customary. Room dimensions are feet, living area is sq ft, roofs are “squares” which is just 100 sq ft. Doors, windows, stairs, all ft and inches. Piping is in inches. Just about every aspect of construction uses customary.

engineers

Some of the above apply to various engineering disciplines. Streets are measured in feet, land area is acres.

The US is dominated by customary. Scientific and medical are of course in metric, but I never said otherwise,

[–] TraumaDumpling@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

even if you are right about this specific point, metric is still far superior. its not like every other country beyond america, liberia, and myanmar have exclusively shit architecture because their poor capenters and construction workers can't use US customary units. it clearly works, at worst it is an arbitrary and equally useful system of units, and at best it is far superior for international communications, mass production, conversions, scaling, etc.

every other country in the world has figured this shit out lmao, this reactionary take against the metric system is pure 4chan anti-intellectualism and nothing more.