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and the (almost) adoption in the US.

For example:

• 1 bushel is exactly 64 dry pints.

• 1 dry pint is exactly 107521/92400 liquid pints.

• 1 liquid pint is exactly 231/8 cubic inches.

• We formally defined the inch in terms of the metric system in the 1950s as being precisely 2.54 centimeters.

Thus making the bushel exactly 220244188543/6250000 cubic centimeters.¹

¹ Unless you're talking about an oat bushel, a barley bushel, a wheat bushel, or a few other exceptions.

I'm now imagining that playing out.

"France, we're thinking about adopting British time as the global standard. Do you have any thoughts or input on the matter?"

It's just not even close, the UK has more dumb fuckers per capita than the USA.

We've got people who don't like paragliders here too.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/jury-acquits-homeowner-who-fired-shots-to-get-paragliders-attention/

Jury acquits homeowner who fired shots to ‘get paraglider’s attention’

Flinn saw the paraglider, Matt Senior of Issaquah, sail past his living-room window last July 2. He told Douglas County sheriff’s deputies he emerged from his home carrying a 12-gauge shotgun and fired it into the air “to get his attention.”

Flinn told Senior, then hovering 60 to 80 feet overhead, to get away from his property. Senior, an 11-year veteran paraglider, swore at Flinn and threatened to come to his home and assault him. Flinn fired another round into the air as Senior departed.

In his summation, Flinn’s attorney, John Brangwin of Wenatchee, said other paragliders had passed over Flinn’s property that day, but sailed far higher. He called Flinn’s confrontation of Senior a defense of his property, and invoked the spectre of drones and “black helicopters” spying on citizens’ private lives.

“We can debate whether he’s a trespasser or not, because his feet are not on the ground,” Brangwin told the jury, referring to Senior. “… But at what point do you have the right to protect your home?”

I have a ~400 Wh powerbank in my car. It charges off the cigarette lighter when it needs charging and the engine is running. That greatly increases my ability to run higher loads on a short term basis, and gives me wall power. I can also haul it to a power plug and charge it if need be. It also lets me power a laptop if I'm parked.

I use my phone for navigation, and a mount for when I'm on longer trips.

I think that a Pi might make sense if you need something that a phone can't do, more-intensive compute, but if a phone can handle it, it might be preferable, since you're probably going to sporadically upgrade your phone anyway and probably have it with you.

The phone crashing is going to be a problem even for non-satnav use, so it might be worth replacing.

One thing I noticed was that my phone could overheat---at least in its case, haven't tried removing it---if it continuously ran OSMAnd for navigation. That'd make it reboot. A quick and easy way to avoid the problem is just to toggle off the OSMAnd display. The satnav still works, and you get verbal prompts, just need a double-tap on the hamburger button or whatever to bring it back. Probably it'd be better to have a feature to throttle OSMAnd screen updates (reduce battery usage too) since I don't need super-rapid redraw on a screen that I'm rarely looking at. Dunno if that might be what affects you.

Britain is wide open

I don't think that anyone in 2025 has a very practical way to secure submarine infrastructure.

Might do better submitting to !theonion@midwest.social, as McSweeney's is a satire website.

~~Britain's~~ Companies Are Being Hacked

Probably. For Lemmy instances, read the community rules in the sidebar and instance rules on the instance (in the sidebar when viewing the top-level page).

You could also start your own community on some instance that doesn't take issue with it, or even start your own instance if you're willing to set up and run one.

EDIT: Now you kind of made me curious, and I thought that I'd skim some instances running 0.19.11 (an up-to-date version, so are presumably reasonably maintained). Part of the problem is that there are probably a number of things that instances might (and often do) prohibit, and what an admin might consider objectionable probably ranges from party to party. Like, say you said that you wanted to have a good-faith discussion on the impact of transexuality, weren't going to criticize any individuals involved, and were going to be polite. That might pass muster with some places that have comparatively-restrictive rules...but hard to know in advance.

• Some straight-up have an explicit prohibition on transphobia.

• Some prohibit harassment.

• Some prohibit being "unkind" or similar.

• Some ask a user to be "respectful". What that entails probably differs from person to person in interpretation.

Might ask an admin in advance.

Going through a couple of general-use instances, some that I would guess, from the rules text, probably are going to be on the more-permissive side:

• lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org says that they specifically take issue with censorship on many instances. They say that they do have some rules, but nothing on their rules page seems to prohibit criticism of transexuality.

• discuss.online has a "be nice"-type set of guidelines.

• real.lemmy.fan has no explicit prohibition other than on harassment and asks users to be kind.

That being said, if you think that you're gonna say something that might raise hackles, maybe ask the admin(s) there to clarify whether it's something that they'd take issue with.

The World Bank tried to put a value on the Amazon rainforest as part of a process of estimating how much it would be appropriate for the world to rationally pay Brazil for not clearing it.

https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/latinamerica/how-much-should-we-pay-preserve-amazon

...which corresponds to a total stock value of $1.4-3.3 trillion.

https://companiesmarketcap.com/amazon/marketcap/

Amazon's market capitalization is at $2.2 trillion, so they're in about the same ballpark, I guess.

We should totally do that again. Fun for the people generating them with different LLMs, fun to see the crazy stuff that shows up, and some people wind up with an avatar that they like.

@Thelsim@sh.itjust.works

I remember that "blank face" image being generated, too.

Also an interesting way to compare different LLMs, because you can see what they're spitting out for the same input.

EDIT: Found that thread:

https://sh.itjust.works/post/7955084

The intent wasn't originally to generate avatars, but some people did wind up using it as their avatar.

Easier to quickly distinguish between users with different-colored indicators for different users. There isn't built-in functionality to do that. If there was, I wouldn't have.