Trump has threatened to end democracy in the US. So yesterday may end up being the last time anyone in the US gets to vote.

I wouldn’t call that a win for democracy.

A lot of larger companies like Compaq etc. were making “respectable” PCs by then and selling them in big quantities in direct competition to IBM.

There’s a reason why no-one bought IBM PS/2s. They were horrible value for money.

The real competition at the time was the thousands of other brands selling PCs. By that time IBM was plummeting in sales and other companies were selling most of the PCs. That’s where 95% of the market was.

Samsung offers a lot more models so they tend to have a higher high end and a lower low end than Apple.

I remember many years ago New Scientist magazine did a review study of many different alternative medicine techniques and found that the only benefits they provided were placebo effect.

Except acupuncture. That was the only one with an effect greater than placebo.

For Australians: they mean American opossums, not Australian possums. Our cute little marsupial friends have appropriately wrinkly brains, thank goodness.

In my country that means you wouldn’t respect (for instance) ordinary people who’ve paid off a house. 1 million isn’t as much money as it used to be.

Ah, so it’s a USA specific joke. Gotcha.

Yikes

Did she use an AK to effect her change?

…everyone you dislike?

I honestly don’t know why people go to restaurants in the US. I don’t want a guilt trip from the waiter with my expensive meal. Talk about a buzz kill.

Not if you’re planning on buying an EV

It’s not uncommon among high level classical musicians apparently.

Personally, I prefer Spotify.

Both ISO8601 and RFC3339 are YYYY-MM-DD. The difference is in how the date and time are separated.

He literally was paid a shit-ton of money by the pentagon to provide service to the Ukranian military. He took the money. And then he’s like, “how could I have known they’d use it in WAR?”

It’s pretty obvious he got paid by the Russians to sabotage that operation. Which makes him an enemy agent against the US I guess since he sabotaged a military asset the US paid for.

That’s not at all what I’m saying. I’m saying there’s little to no difference in practical use, except for the convenience of using a standard. Standards make life much easier because you’re talking the same language as everyone else. When you’re pretty much the only country still using Fahrenheit maybe it’s time to think about using the global standard?

All these arguments don’t really have any effect in reality. As someone born in Australia everyone is super comfortable with Celsius and the problems you describe just don’t exist because in the end it’s really just what you’re used to.

To me Fahrenheit seems incredibly awkward but then I wasn’t brought up using it.

Australian here. Celsius is all we use here really. I’d have to convert to Celsius to understand Fahrenheit units.

It may astonish you to learn that it’s very easy to work in fractional degrees Celsius and it’s done commonly.