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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • "When you pay the government, you’re paying for other people’s care. The taxes will go up when more people use and abuse the system and probably won’t even be used for healthcare, and will just be used for something equally unimportant to me like feeding someone elses children in a state I don’t even live in. When I pay a private insurance company, I’m only paying for me. The rates only go up when the insurance company deems it necessary. The profits go to the people that really deserve it, you know? The hard working executives.









  • I gotta say, you make some fair points.

    It’s a lot of memorization that I simply haven’t done and won’t ever have to do.

    The fraction reduction doesn’t help intuitive thought. If imperial operated on ‘significant digits’ and marked any set or document with a 64th always as 64ths, as in 16/64ths, I’d be more on board.

    We just need to replace out base 10 system of counting with base 12 and we’d get the best of both worlds!


  • Not only that, but your system, by virtue of being decimal, inherits all the shortcomings of our quite flawed numbering system. You can’t divide something by the second smallest prime number without breaking out repeating decimals.

    What’s more 0.203 cm or 0.291 cm? How about 3/8" or 19/64"?

    How far is 1/3 of a mile? 1/3 km is 333m. How about 1/9? 1/9 km is 111m How long is 10 x 5/16"? 10 x 3.1cm is 31cm

    Yeah, a foot breaks down easy in whole inches with many factors, but that’s about it










  • I think it could be dangerous given the limited scientific literacy of the general public.

    I can imagine a slew of issues where people treat it like fat/calories and assume lower is “better”, or where other people think it’s like a vitamin and high is “better”.

    I think 95% of people wouldn’t look, but that last 5% would be a mix of people that use it to their benefit as you suggest and people that misuse it as I cynically assume.