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  • Being radical is not a sign of being progressive in thinking and definitely not a sign of doing what is best.
    Being radical left (or right) is not to be more “modern” either.
    UK at the time was way more radical on both the left and the right side than most European countries, exactly because of FPTP. And it lead to politically unsustainable solutions. Again a sign of stupid policies, and a sub par form of governance.
    Nationalizing is radical, but it’s a double edged sword that can easily become a burden. It was already at that time an old fashioned socialist way of thinking.
    The more modern Social democracies of Scandinavia avoided nationalizing but used regulation instead. A model that has been proven on average to work way better.
    So again I’d say the UK politicians weren’t neither modern or clever in nationalizing industries, as I wrote in a previous post, and nationalizing an industry has nothing to do with modernizing it, on the contrary nationalized industries tend to become monopolies, and monopolies tend to stifle innovation.
    Also the improvements in the Social Democratic countries on health education and infra structure quickly surpassed the UK.












  • What cost?

    I’m arguing to convert to metric when posting on an international forum, because metric is the international standard.
    But I’ll have you know that I often also post Imperial units when posting things that are in metric, because I know there are also a lot of Americans here. I’ve seen others do the same.
    But Americans very rarely do that. Hence the claim about American arrogance.

    Finally to make the car show bar instead of psi and use it for recommended tire pressure has no extra cost.





  • It’s not just different, it’s less intuitive, and it’s based on other obsolete units, and it is only used by a minority.
    I bet if some other country had their own national standards of measurement plastered all over the net, that you would be pretty annoyed by that too.
    But somehow USA doing this shit constantly is OK because AMERICA!!

    Americans are fucking annoying with their constant special pleading, it’s OK to post psi or other imperial units, but for fucks sake post the metric units too that the majority is using.