"Crime doesn't pay"
Tell that to the companies which get a few million in fines for stealing tens of millions in wages.
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Fractions?
Fractions use a numerator and denominator (e.g., (3/4)). Decimals use a decimal point with place values based on powers of 10 (e.g., 0.75.)
So to answer which cookbooks use fractions; it's American ones.
Take 1/4th cup this 2 cups that 2&7/8ths of a fl oz this and 1/2 quart of water.
So yeah. American cookbooks use factions.
"the conversion isn't useful"
There no conversion going on. You can say 200g of flour or 0.2kg of flour. Both equally understandable to anyone who grew up with the metric system. Hell my grandpa even uses hecto- and deca- in everyday conversations.
Because if I don't assume their language, they won't understand me, as my native language is Finnish. When talking to or about Americans, I might add a bit of American flare. It's not grammatically correct, I know. Just double negatives.
Also criticism and disparagement are two different things.
I actually went through the entire pdf. Didn't read all of it, but browsed through and read the parts I though relate to this.
I can't find anything about the metre ever being from "natural measurements". Only that the people looking to make the metre debated the subject. But the metre itself was always based on the size of the Earth. But yeah, it's close to a yard and a yard is 3 feet.
Ofc originally all measurements somehow derive from our bodies, because that's the first thing we measured with. But like the pdf quite quickly says:
It is universally accepted that the first important stage in the development of metro- logical concepts related to measures of length is the anthropomorphic one, in which the main units of measurement are the parts of the human body [3, 4]. As the sociologist and historian of metrology Witold Kula puts it, “man measures the world with him- self” [4] — a variation of Protagoras’ “man is the measure of all things”. It is a very ancient and primitive approach. Certainly, even the first people who adopted such units must have been aware that the length of their own feet or fingers was different from their neighbor’s ones. But initially such personal differences did not seem important, given the low degree of accuracy required in measurements in that social context. Later the anthropomorphic approach reached a first level of abstraction, charac- terized by “the shift from concrete representations to abstract ones, from ‘my or your finger’ to ‘finger in general’ ” 4 [4]. Nevertheless, even when the stage was reached of conceiving measurement units as abstract concepts, differences in establishing the value of these units remained, depending on region or time [6, 7, 8, 9]. Only in the eighteenth century, with the consolidation of the experimental method on one hand, and the drive towards international co-operation and trading on the other, 3All English quotes not referring to English bibliography are translation by the authors. 4The earliest measurement standard we have evidence of is the Egyptian cubit, the length of the forearm from elbow to fingers, realized around 2500 B.C. in a piece of marble of about 50 centimeters [5]. 2 strong emphasis was placed for the first time on the need for standardized units
] one would still have to include an heterogeneous element, time, or what is here the same thing, the intensity of the gravitational force at the Earth’s surface. Now, if it is possible to have a unit of length that does not depend on any other quantity, it seems natural to prefer it.27 [. . . ] Actually, it is much more natural to refer the distance between two places to a quarter of one of the terrestrial circles than to refer it to the length of the pendulum. [. . . ] The quarter of the Earth meridian would become then the real unit of length; and the ten million-th part of this length would be its practical unit. (Ref [2], pp. 4-5)
Ugh I'm not gonna format all that. I'm not like trying to say you're wrong. I'm asking you what you're trying to say?
Oh, really? You use your foot or your girlfriend's? Because I wager those are somewhat different.
What body part is a quart based on? Because I don't think it's any of them, and you could probably still eyeball a quart of water. That's to say, just shy of a litre.
How about one yard? Think you can do that? Great, just add a bit and you have a metre.
It's crazy how Americans actually be complaining about how they're unable to estimate or perceive things if they're not actually measuring it against the bottom of their feet. Don't you believe you have the ability to learn? I can see why you wouldn't, but...
Second is a measure of time. You think its "the time it take for one step".. ?
A day is divided into hours. An hour is divided into smaller pisces, minute pieces. (See how it works as an adjective and a noun?) Then that measure is divided a second time, into secunda pars minuta
That's why they're minutes and seconds.
Metres don't exactly sound like step lengths either
The mètre was introduced – defined as one ten-millionth of the shortest distance from the North Pole to the equator passing through Paris, assuming an Earth flattening of 1/334.
Edit seems to only instrumental.
I only know the Finnish version originally
Edit 2 here are the translated lyrics (i didn't bother checking so it's ai translate)
Verse 1]
The express train is speeding through Mexico, it's already night The spotlights sweep the shiny track The barking of a coyote is heard, fading into the noise of the locomotive
Behind the Sierra Madre, the moon is bulging like cheese
The atmosphere in the first-class carriage is sleepy. Passengers, men, women, everyone is dozing. Then the pace slows down and almost stops. What could be the reason for the stop?
Verse 2]
The brakes squeal on the wheels, the carriage door opens. Two men rush in, talking dirty. Little Pete, Big Pat, both gangsters. Both of them are brandishing large crowbars.
"Hands up, gentlemen!" shouts a sharp command
Big Pat and shoots at the ceiling a couple of times:
"It would be wise for everyone to open their wallets now
"Listen to the one who is wearing shoes"
[Verse 3]
No one can resist, Little Pete guards Big Pat while he evacuates with his fingers the most accustomed Rings and purses, medallions, wallets
The robber also searches the suitcases alone. Nothing is left for the victims, the prey exceeds their hopes. Little Pete hisses at the top of his lungs: "Men are beaten to a pulp, but women are taken away."
"I can't be without my beloved now."
[Verse 4]
A rumbling laugh rings out, Big Pat now echoes his Partner's words and soon grunts: "Okay, that's what we'll do, we'll have a decent harem."
"Let's take the dirt to a hidden cave behind the Sierra Madre"
Then from the trap of the carriage, from among the gentlemen
Hidalgo now steps forward, says: "Señores, do whatever you want to us, but spare the women, otherwise you will have a bad memory."
[Verse 5]
A moment of silence follows, the suggestion is strange, new
Ha, now there's a commotion in the women's group too. An old maid, now, fifty years old, demands the floor and immediately gets it. Her eyes blazing with anger, she jumps on her feet and begins to vent her anger at Hidalgo:
"What is the gentleman talking about and fussing about? Let's do as the bandits order."
Huh-hah-heija, we'll do as the bandits order
Edit 3 i feel like there were more of those in the song than in tje lyrics page I looked at
Been there, done that.
Didn't break a window, just hung on a doorhandle.
The most fucked up thing is salvia has reverse tolerance. The more you use it the stronger it will be.
Yeah this, salvia is anything but some light recreational fun.
Or anything that might help with mental problems.
Last time I went the spirits kicked me out for being too much of a noob to their realm. But that was like 15-20 years ago.
Why would I thank them? They ruined my life
No, just too delusional to accept that forcing a 14-year old girl to suck your weird mushroom dick is actually rape and pedophilia.
I'm uncertain of the specifics, 14 may be shooting high idk.
In 1999, she led a Harvard University team who, by use of a Bose–Einstein condensate, succeeded in slowing a beam of light to about 17 metres per second, and, in 2001, was able to stop a beam completely.[2] Later work based on these experiments led to the transfer of light to matter, then from matter back into light,[3] a process with important implications for quantum encryption and quantum computing.
Edit wait I meant to post this to the other dude, sry. I'm just gonna literally double down.
In 1999, she led a Harvard University team who, by use of a Bose–Einstein condensate, succeeded in slowing a beam of light to about 17 metres per second, and, in 2001, was able to stop a beam completely.[2] Later work based on these experiments led to the transfer of light to matter, then from matter back into light,[3] a process with important implications for quantum encryption and quantum computing.
Atomism wasn't correct though. Atoms aren't indivisible and they're not the smallest unit reality has.
"States of matter are made from the same materials, only vibrating at different rates."
Well yes, but they only identified one material correctly, water. And us being mostly made of it and our planet being quite blue, and water being water, quite obvious.
The five main human senses
That's a common myth, but it's a misconception stemming from history and not anything any actual neuroscientist believes. We don't have 5 senses. We have like 10 to 20, they're still arguing about it. But here's the main six and theyre thresholds (ofc everyone knows these ones but the thresholds seem quite interesting, and believable, like in a "yeah I could do that" way)
And a bit of copypaste from Reddit where someone has nicely listed these...
The extended series of senses. Pressure Itch Temperature Pain Thirst Hunger Direction Time Muscle tension Proprioception (the ability to tell where your body parts are, relative to other body parts) Equilibrioception (the ability to keep your balance and sense body movement in terms of acceleration and directional changes) Stretch Receptors (These are found in such places as the lungs, bladder, stomach, blood vessels, and the gastrointestinal tract.) Chemoreceptors (These trigger an area of the medulla in the brain that is involved in detecting blood born hormones and drugs. It also is involved in the vomiting reflex.)So yeah I read some of your comment, I can see how those can be interesting metaphors when you're into that literature, buuut... that's about it.
If you bump into someone what's the first thing you do, before you've even had a chance to think about what you're doing?
Idk perhaps different in different places but I'm pretty conditioned to say "sorry" even if someone bumps into me (as long as it doesn't seem like they did it intentionally).
^No ^I'm ^not ^Canadian
Good question.
I suddenly couldn't remember what McGyver theme was but I remembered it's quite a banger.
And I wasn't mistaken.
I think I had it on like my Nokia 3210 as a custom ringtone.
One that wasn't good but definitely an earworm:
But currently I've got the Voyager theme stuck in my head but it's somewhat boring, but all the Star Trek themes are good. Perhaps best is ofc It's been a long road from Enterprise.
Someone said "Buffy" and that was good, yeah. I don't think "Angel" is bad either. https://youtu.be/vpAol_17mO0 sounds a bit like Apocalyptica tbh
Now that I checked quite a few, seems like in the late 90's early 00's lots of openings had barely a theme song, 80% just the main character recapping the premise of the show
I always imagined that if I really wanted to learn Spanish without living among Spanish speakers, I'd put on Family Guy or some other show with simple English and that has good subs and dubs. Then either use English audio with Spanish subs and perhaps after getting used to it a bit Spanish dubs with English subs. And after getting the hang of basics, Spanish with Spanish dubs. As Family Guy is so simple you'd get the context from the show, know a word here and there and your brain fills in the holes. Not at first, and then quite badly, but I think if you have like the very basics down, like a weeks course or something, and then you just start binging a show you know like that, constantly on the background, I'd assume you'd be a somewhat functional speaker in a year or two at least. Or you'll just learn what "giggity" is in Spanish and nothing else. Either or. Or something in between. Or not.
Nevermindme just passing by I've no actual suggestions
Samesies.
She had 4 kids. I was the middle one until the last one came about 15 years later than most of us, with a different dad.
Didn't care much after that. I moved out at 15 to my dads.
You know how it's a meme and whatnot that parents always want you into the best schools possible? Well I had basically an above 9 GPA on a 4-10 scale in the best school in the country and my mom pulled me out to put me in some rural cousinfucker school because she wanted to move because she met a wealthy man and they couldn't wait two fucking years while not living together. Despite the drive being like an hour between them.
Literally had a teacher in that school tell me I could be a surgeon, when I was the first in a decade to extract a perch's swimbladder without puncturing it.
To this day mom won't even talk about it. And if she does she basically just avoids taking any responsibility, saying "everyone makes their own choices". Well bitch, I was underage. You were making them for me.
And she's supposedly a college level graduate social worker, which just adds to the irony.