I’m old enough to remember when they tried to convert us to metric. I can tell you why.

People tried to force it on us and we don’t need the metric system for daily use. Trying to force people to use it isn’t going to work. Now, personally, I’d prefer if measurements on rulers and in cars were still given in both systems.

Metric advocates tend to be smug and insulting towards anyone not using the metric system. I have seen this myself more than once. Calling a whole nation stupid because they use a different but functional system of measurement is hardly a good strategy for converting them to your system.

I learned the metric system in school. I understand that the metric system is superior in many sciences. I have strong interests in anthropology. And here I am at 55 and I have never, not once, needed to use metric. Bone measurements are often given in metric but it’s not such a big issue that I need to wholly convert to metric.

My question is, what’s the big deal? Is the metric system a religion? I’ve seen evangelical Christians less intent on converting people. Why?

Oh, c’mon, Janeway wouldn’t have done anything so cruel unless they were trapped in the Gamma quadrant for at least another month.

My mother used to say “If wishes were horses,” and I had no idea where that came from. I didn’t get internet until after her death in 2001. I looked up that saying and the complete version is, " If wishes were horses then beggars would ride. " Apparently, it’s a very old saying so I guess adults weren’t always gross.

Fedora. About 20 years ago I installed Fedora on my spare PC. I don’t remember the exact date but I can tell you the Fedora version was Yarrow. Yeah, a long time ago.

Anyways, my Fedora Yarrow installation worked great for less than 2 days. One update and I suddenly didn’t have internet. The Fedora maintainers decided to drop the driver for my ethernet card even though that particular hardware had existed for only 3 years. I was furious! WTF are you doing dropping drivers for 3 yo hardware?! Yes I can reinstall the driver but I shouldn’t have needed to. Linux has always had a hardware support problem and they were dropping drivers for hardware that wasn’t even 5 years old.

I’ve ran mostly Debian -based distros since and never had a similar problem. And I know that it’s petty and even silly after all this time but I’m never touching Fedora again.

You know what you need to do --end the relationship. It’s only going to get worse. Never let someone abuse you if you don’t absolutely have to. There might be times that you’ll miss her but someone like that will escalate their abuse if you endure it.

I think you should call it Librarian.

Preloaded with Mx Linux: https://us.starlabs.systems/?shpxid=03ed0b64-1e49-4b1c-afc0-5b0e23936b9d

Preloaded with Pop! OS: https://system76.com/laptops

There are many more. Go to distrowatch or search distros by name and you’ll find have a link on their site to computers with their system preloaded.

“Poontang” is an oldie that makes me laugh.

I would still name him Jeremiah.

Take over Earth and have a seraglio of gorgeous men and women as my sex slaves.

Claudish: This is a hard stop: cry havoc, and release the dogs of war.

Indeed it is, Claude.

Just look at them. They already are an empanada filling.

When I was 11, I was annoying my mom a lot so naturally, she lunged at me with a butchers knife.

When I was 16, she beat me in the head with her fists.

I’m 55 now and she died when I was 30. You know what’s weird? I wish she had stabbed me when I was 11. She would have had to explain that. Then again, if someone had seen her threaten me for once. My half-sister saw her beat me in the head with her fists and Mama suffered no consequences so she probably wouldn’t have then either.

GASP!! Why, the nerve of that guy!

You’d ban Jerrys but not Donalds?

I’ve never met a Don or Donald that was a nice person. Seriously. And I’m old.

The plan is to artificially inflate the number of users with bots to fool advertisers into thinking there are a lot more users than there really is so they’ll advertise on Reddit. This is the only thing that matters now.

That’s why they love Trump so much. He’s an abusive, narcissistic tyrant, just like their god.