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Excluding a few examples like frequently used gym weights, common fastener sizes, and short distances, I still have to do rough conversions in my head to have an idea of what a metric measurement is, so I guess I'd say imperial.

But I wouldn't be upset if the US converted to metric.

I've got a foot in both worlds, I have an IT education but have worked in or around skilled labor most of my adult life. Part of my current job even deals with training and evaluating people doing skilled labor.

In my experience, two kinds of people tend to do well enough to be described as thriving. Those who've worked with their hands before, either professionally or as a hobby, and those who approach the job with some humility and a mindset of wanting to learn and perfect a craft, similar to many artists.

It doesn't matter what your background is, white collar, blue collar, no collar, if you're overconfident and think a trade is going to be easy because you don't respect the mental and the physical aspects of the job, you're going to have a bad time.

Sounds like exactly what I'm looking for.

Neil Postman was right.

Our educational models and methods are changing for the worse.

TV and the internet are terrible mediums for public or political discourse and this has exacerbated many of our existing issues.

Our culture has become more shallow and has started to lack something profound.

Things will not improve until we change our relationship with these technologies.

They sell travel sized rolls of that gorilla tape.

It sticks to just about anything, pretty much forever, and is totally opaque.

Should work like a charm.

Mental health, cognitive and attention span issues, misinformation, etc. are to the point that it's a public health crisis. If we're lucky, ten years from now, we'll talk about this the way we talk about smoking now.

Great concept, highlighting skewed priorities, but awful execution.

Precisely, but you're giving them too much credit by expecting them to figure it out from reading the lyrics alone.

Prejudice tends to lack a capacity for self reflection and an understanding of irony.

It's the same with nazi punks and MAGAs who like Rage Against The Machine, they just want something that sounds loud, aggressive, and violent and rarely understand what they're listening to or how it came about until it's shoved right in their face. Then they get all offended about it.

Most of the time, the best they can make themselves is a cheap, talent-less imitation that lacks any sense of authenticity, and to try and overcome that they've resorted to something that can produce a finely polished turd that still lacks any sense of authenticity.

Cartoonish levels of villainy.

Locksmithing/access control is an industry that is sorely lacking new people...

Interesting. I was considering locksmithing as a way to get some supplemental income later in life. I've done skilled labor and light IT work most of my life and it seemed like a good fit for my skill set. I'll have to move that to the top of the pile of possibilities.

Absolutely intentionally designed to be that way by the GOP and blatantly obvious when you look at their voting records.

One of their main arguments against taxes is that government will always waste tax dollars due to corruption and incompetence... Which is a self fulfilling prophecy, as they've proven to be some of the most corrupt and incompetent political leaders in history.