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Cake day: June 25th, 2023

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  • It’s good you’re able to talk sanely about it.

    But I don’t understand the anger around the subject at all.

    It’s simply a subject of personal autonomy and body integrity.

    Imagine being a grown man or just a teenager and being forced to perform that operation without your consent nor any explanation (as it’s mostly useless out of social norms and potentially harmful). I guess you’d be furious, at least.

    That’s it.





















  • Yes, only places where it is mixed is the anglosaxony… try to open to the world.

    I use pounds because I do archery, where my bow’s power is measured with that unit, which I translate as 1/2 a kg. I don’t care that it’s inaccurate.

    There are also inches (I think) for Tv and computer screens, which is shitty.

    But no one else uses imperial.

    I worked with croncrete blocks (prefabricated building elements) some years ago and I was all the time making fast calculations of sizes and weight and I cannot imagine making that in imperial (admittedly because I am not used, but in present case it would just have been massively impractical)