There’s a strategic disadvantage to voting in newer candidates versus incumbents.
Not if you want to retire. Not if you want your representatives to understand and share the viewpoint that retirement is good, and working yourself into the grave is bad. If they understand that, they won’t be around to remain incumbents. If those representatives are still around, it is advantageous to vote in newer candidates over the workaholic incumbents.
I want to retire. Not now, but eventually.
I want my legislators to share that view, to understand that view, to support that view. Which means they won’t be participating in professional politics after the age of 65.
Matt Stone killed a homeless man?
You’re cooking dinner, not crystal meth.
“Frozen chicken strips” doesn’t mean what you think it means. “Frozen chicken strips” are “whatever neutral solid you want to use to carry the flavor of everything else in this dish to your mouth”.
“1 cup” of them is “However much of that solid you feel like eating with this meal”, plus any remaining that would be less than a full portion if saved for the next meal.
Forget the scale; if you’re dirtying a dish for a cup of chicken, you don’t belong in the kitchen! The proper tool for measuring a cup of frozen chicken is your dominant hand, curled into a fist around them.
Land contracts are an actual “thing”. They are legal agreements, recorded in the county register like a deed or a lien. You can buy or sell a home through a land contract right now, if you want. Currently, they aren’t particularly common, but they aren’t unknown either.
I mentioned how I would like to eliminate rent entirely, by establishing exorbitant tax penalties for people who own multiple residential properties. Land Contracts are how I would meet the needs of people who need the flexibility of a rental arrangement, rather than just buying with a private mortgage.
There is an interesting method of “rent” in use in South Korea that is far less parasitical. I don’t know of it being used in the US, but we could adopt it if we wanted. "Jeonse or “Key Money” is where the tenant makes zero monthly payments. Instead, they put down a large deposit. The landlord invests their deposit (there are limitations on what they can invest in), and keeps any interest. At the end of the rental period (usually 2 years) the landlord returns the entire deposit to the tenant. The tenant is protected by taking out a lien against the property. If the landlord cannot or will not return the deposit, the tenant takes ownership of the property.
The Jeonse deposit is typically 50% to 80% of the purchase price of the house, but it can be externally financed if necessary.
Fahrenheit is also based on water’s phase changes,
Exactly: It puts 180 degrees between boiling and frozen, as though they were opposite conditions or something.
It’s set at 32 instead of 0 because 0 is the temperature of the most stable frigorific mixture they knew of. If you don’t have access to a reliable thermometer for your lab, the thermometer you make for Fahrenheit is going to be more accurate than the one you make for Celsius.
Or, we just use volumetric measurements, despite the slight variations they introduce when you cram pack flour into a cup instead of gently scooping the sifted. It’s a kitchen, not a laboratory or a factory.
Exactly. I am trying to describe a duodecimal number system without using a decimal number system. “Ten” is a single-digit number. “Eleven” is a single digit number. “10” is pronounced “Twelve”.
In duodecimal, 10 is, indeed, the sum of 6+6. Add up 6+6 in your number system. The number you reach equals “10” in the number system I described.
Hexadecimal is a wonderful base, as it is the composite of 2 * 2 * 2 * 2.
But, it does not allow for even division by three or six, and that is a problem. The simplest regular polygon is an equilateral triangle. The angle of an equalateral triangle is 1/6th the angle of a complete circle. Hexadecimal cannot represent 1/6th of a circle without a fractional part. Geometry in hexadecimal would require something like the sexagesimal layer (360 degree circle) we stack on top of decimal to make it even remotely functional.
Duodecimal would not require that additional layer: The angle of a complete circle is “10”. The equilateral triangle angle is “2”. A right angle is “3”. A straight line is “6”.
With duodecimal, the unit circle is already metricated. Angles are metric. Time is metric.
Let me put it a different way: Our base is the product of 2 and a prime number. A 12-fingered alien who came across our decimal number system would think it about as useful and practical as we think of base-14, another number system with a base the product of 2 and a prime number.
Of course. But I’m saying it in such a way that doesn’t require the use of numbers in a base that is the product of 2 and 5.
In any given number system, the base of that number system is 10.
Unempathetic implies a certain disdain or malevolence toward the plight of the parent commenter.
Emotionless does not.
My judgment and contempt is reserved for the concept of renting, not the parent commenter’s condition or actions.
Presumed consent is not consent. We cannot assume it was consensually sourced.
*Czech.
Weight requires a scale. I don’t know a single American who has a scale in their kitchen.
That makes sense. I mean, bees are fish, so…
But we still have a number system where 10 is the sum of 5+5.
I want a number system where 10 is the sum of 6+6, and 12 is the sum of 7+7. A number system with two more single-digit numbers: one representing the sum of 6 and 4 as a single digit; and another representing the sum of 6 and 5. A system where 10*10 is 100, and 100 is the product of 6 * 2 * 6 * 2. A number system where 10 is evenly divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6.
A metric system developed from that number system would be stunningly gorgeous.
Probably a scumbag supervisor or manager. Doubtful it was an actual worker.
I want an alternative to Metric that uses base 12 units instead.
Right?! I have been saying that for years! It really pisses me off that we evolved with 5 digits on each hand instead of 6. It’s clear evidence against the the idea of intelligent design.
How about breast milk? It is neither cow milk, nor vegan milk…
That helicopter will be killing more Syrian rebels than anyone else.