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  2. New blog post!

    ☆On metric☆

    Maybe I'm just so done with *gestures vaguely* that being a bit petty will blow off steam, but honestly? Americans use metric. We use whatever is useful. Which really begs the question: if metric is so great, then why wouldn't we use it for everything?

    Not "freedom units;" unit freedom

    It offends me that the rest of the world doesn't realize(...) blog.bluestarcreations.net/ran

    #RantOfTheMoment #metric #politics #science

  3. #Canada is not the only country that is somewhat #schizoid about #units / #metric and #Imperial measures.

    I bought a roll of copper foil tape from China (AliExpress, natch) that was described as "20 mm x 393.7 inches". Why they didn't just say 10 meters is beyond me 😆

    #AliExpress #wat #meters #inches

  4. Today’s top female lead singers of rock! 2026 Update

    The list below identifies the reigning female lead singers of today’s rock music scene. Please note that it does not include singers who perform under their given name like Taylor Swift or Phoebe Bridgers. In Phoebe’s case, she does qualify for the list under Better Oblivion Community Center and boygenius.

    Cliffords – Source: instagram.com

    However, in some instances, the band name listed is the same as the singer’s stage name, such as Blondshell and Girlhouse. As more outstanding female musical artists are discovered, they will added to the list. Peace and rock on!

    Deep Sea Diver – Source: instagram.com

    Iona Lynch – Cliffords (Ireland)

    Julie Dawson – NewDad (Ireland) – added 12/2/25

    Ellie Rowsell – Wolf Alice (England)

    Jessica Dobson – Deep Sea Diver

    Hayley Williams – Paramore

    Sabrina Mae Teitelbaum – Blondshell

    Lily Aron – Florence Road (Ireland)

    Florence Road- Source: Spotify.com

    Ritzy Bryan – The Joy Formidable (Wales)

    Sharon Van Etten – Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory

    Etta Friedman and Allegra Weingarten – Momma

    Florence Welch – Florence & The Machine (Ireland)

    Annie Clark – St. Vincent

    Phoebe Bridgers – Better Oblivion Community Center and boygenius

    Jane Fitzsimmons – Twen – added 4/4/26

    Twen – Source: songbyrddc.com

    Shirley Manson – Garbage (England and USA)

    Rebecca Lovell – Larkin Poe

    Jordan Miller – The Beaches (Canada) – added 4/4/26

    Venus O’Broin – Swapmeet (Australia) – added 4/4/26

    Swapmeet -Source: monsterchildren.com

    Emily Haines – Metric and Broken Social Scene (Canada)

    Lauren Luiz – Girlhouse

    Leah Fay Goldstein – July Talk (Canada)

    Karen Orzolek – Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs

    Maisie Everett – Belair Lip Bombs (Australia) – added 4/4/26

    Diana Suteu – The Palais (England)

    Wolf Alice – Source: thetimes.co.uk #Blondshell #boygenius #DeepSeaDiver #florenceTheMachine #FlorenceRoad #garbage #girlhouse #Hole #JulyTalk #LarkinPoe #Metric #Momma #music #NewDad #Paramore #rock #StVincent #TheAttachmentTheory #TheJoyFormidable #ThePalais #WolfAlice #YeahYeahYeahs
  5. @landley

    My government's favourite trick for gaming inflation numbers (also practiced by many other nations) is omitting "highly volatile" elements from the calculations. Specifically, food and energy.

    Because the average person spends basically none of their money on those two items, right? And the prices of those shoot up crazily, but their prices also drop like a stone the next month, making the consumer come out even, right?

    Goodhart's Law, etc, etc.

    #GoodhartsLaw #Goodhart #metric #numbers #gaming #inflation

  6. "Well, sure, all our sandwiches now come with shit. Shit is a very popular topping with our customers, so we thought we'd make it easy for all of you to get what you want. We determined it was too confusing for customers if some sandwiches came with shit, and some didn't, so we simplified our menu to make sure you could find exactly what you need. No, you can't order a sandwich 'but hold the shit'. After all, if you're that dead-set against eating shit, you can just order your sandwich and then eat around the shit."

    This is a post about #Microsoft and #Google.

    #Microslop #ShitSandwich #shit #EatShit #CoPilot #Gemini #AI #LLM #NobodyWants #bubble #GoodhartsLaw #Goodhart #metric #software #users

  7. A 3/4 (55 cm) #violin 🎻 [1] for the American chap whose posts I saw on Reddit whilst researching what was involved in changing #sparkplugs - it turns out in USA-land torque values for these are sometimes quoted in *inch*-pounds, but he got confused and ended up borrowing a ft-lbs #torquewrench, tried to put put 150 ft-lbs (203 Nm!) on a plug that should be about 150 inch-pounds (17 Nm). and wondered why the plug was still loose, and his truck was misfiring.

    Luckily for him the ceramic had broken before the threads stripped in the cylinder head and the garage was able to extract the broken plug and he was back on the road.

    [1] just the right size for a small child of about age 10 to play, and to suggest to the old man that using #metric units really isn't a bad idea..

  8. Today, from the "doesn't really matter because they're never used" department...

    I think that U.S. #Metric speed limit #Signs should have a red ring around the number, even though the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices says that the ring should be black.

    It's still a #Regulatory sign with the red ring, and it would stand out a lot more.

    More: mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/

    #RoadGeek #RoadSign #MUTCD #FederalHighwayAdministration #FHA #UrbanPlanning #CityPlanning #TrafficControl #SpeedLimit

  9. Today, from the "doesn't really matter because they're never used" department...

    I think that U.S. speed limit should have a red ring around the number, even though the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices says that the ring should be black.

    It's still a sign with the red ring, and it would stand out a lot more.

    More: mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/