I probably need to watch more Futurama, but wasn't Zapp well intentioned, but completely incompetent? Only kinda fits Putin.
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A meter is a device that measures things. Clearly it clears out a parking lot with 50 spots, each controlled by a square parking meter.
As far as I know, though, no Americans at all know about the metre: a unit of measurement.
Netflix has the wrong time for me half the year. Apparently they don't believe in areas where DST isn't a thing.
Don't know much about fhe context here, so I won't defend this person if she's actually pretending. That said, I wore masks consistently, and completely understand their value, and would never complain about people wearing them, but...
Holy hell are people harder to understand when wearing them. I know it's a me problem, and I know why it's a problem, so I completely understand why somebody would say that.
Still not enough to justify not wearing one.
I'ma show my age and say 90s Duke Nukem. Thanos wouldn't stand a chance against bad 80s action-movie parody camp.
Come to Canada, most of our existing stuff is robertson, and only the really cheap new stuff isn't.
I'm not sure I've ever seen a philips or slotted deck screw. I have and have purchased many boxes of these things and they've always been nearly 100% Robertson. Is this a US thing?
The police and port authorities have to care first. Some donor to an influential political party probably had a car stolen.
And who bring a Playboy mag to their university's computer lab, and advertises their possession?
Probably a random grad student. They were just coming out of the "sexual revolution" of the 60s at that point. It'd be a lot weirder ten years earlier or ten years later.
That a similar thing did happen ten years earlier is the weird part, I think.
I like to measure the area of rooms in foot-metres. Square foot-metres is a great unit for volume.
Today I unironically described the length of something as "about 1 centimetre less than a foot".
Still looks competitive next to Canada....
Context matters. In a room one-on-one, yes, absolutely it's like a phone call. Out in public, the non-verbal cues matter much more. As a concrete example, phone calls in the quiet are just fine, but I can't use a drive-through.