Dasus

Yup.

An older friend who smoke and drank a ton switched to vapes, and methodically lowered the nicotine content every two-there weeks for months, then stopper nicotine and vaped the flavours but as there was no more nicotine, the habit wasn't addicting and he just forgot about it more or less.

Now he's been alone free for years, and reduced his drinking as well. Looks fucking healthy now.

Nah. Tariffs will just make consumers spend more money

Well no, it's not a single person, but more like a rare person. How many people in the modern world own calibrating weights for scales? I don't, and I'd actually need to calibrate my scales (I just check em with several coins to get more or less a known weight. But have to do several coins so it averages out the dents and dirt the coins might have.)

I'm just saying I don't believe this accuracy is anything that would've been needed by an average citizen. So, not unique objects, but handmade specialised equipment. Probably most towns/cities would have only one or a couples of apothecaries, if any. These apothecaries on the other hand would have to get their specialised equipment either from knowing how to advice a craftsman how to make it, make it themselves, or get them from a bigger city.

I mean you still see the exact type of bottles in pharmacies as decoration. (Well we do here. I've gathered US pharmacies are a bit more... commercial.)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apothecaries%27_system#Origin

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Roman_units_of_measurement

I'm thinking they're some of these:

Idk how lemmy will format but the numbers after mean unit, equal to, metric, imperial and US fluid:

acetabulum 1⁄48 congius 68 mL 2.39 fl oz 2.30 fl oz

quartarius 1⁄24 congius 136 mL 4.79 fl oz 4.61 fl oz

hemina or cotyla 1⁄12 congius 273 mL 9.61 fl oz 9.23 fl oz

sextarius 1⁄6 congius 546 mL 19.22 fl oz 0.961 pt 18.47 fl oz 1.153 pt

congius 1 congius 3.27 L 5.75 pt 0.719 gal 3.46 qt 0.864 gal

urna 4 congii 13.1 L 2.88 gal 3.46 gal

It was hard to tell the tone of your voice from a piece of text.

These must have been mass produced

Why must have they been mass produced? Couldn't it be they're like the equivalent of standardise weights which are used to calibrate other, less accurate measuring devices?

So for instance perhaps these were made with extreme care, but people also had copper pots and pans with some specific size. Like, idk, 4 serving cups or something. But the way theyre made is less accurate and you can just check your bowl by filling one of these and pouring the water into your bronze bowl and seeing how it fits.

Like perhaps taverns always serve a serving size of two cups (500ml is what we used to give as a serving in the army on every meal, as in the woods it's always stew or mash or something else you can ladel.) and there's a city inspector who can go around checking that taverns aren't cheating people by having too small serving ladels of too small pints or something.

Idk thats more of a fantasy. Probably just a set for an apothecary. And this would've been somewhat rare, so definitely could get your measuring sets done custom. Which you probably needed to.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apothecaries%27_system

If by "more egalitarian" you mean "less blatantly racist", the sure.

https://www.ussc.gov/research/research-reports/2023-demographic-differences-federal-sentencing

And if you want to get more details, watch like any episodes of John Oliver.

America is not "the land of the equal".

I genuinely like to try to make myself think statements like this are true. If I do it for like a few years and start actually buying it myself, then I'll be pleasantly surprises when I actually turn 40.

I don't shop for online, like shoes and pizzas

How do you shop for pizza not-online? Bro still going with pizzas brochures? Respect bro. If you top that off ny ordering by landline, it'd be perfect.

But yeah I had similar thoughts on Honey, never installed and now I think I definitely won't. Thx 4 i Lemmy

Well while they're every large, they're essentially eating into their reserves all the time. So they can amass more things than Ukraine... for now. At the cost of any possible future for Russia basically.

Russia will be fixing this clusterfuck of their economy for decades after Putin drops, even if it was just of old age.

Lemmy.ml is insane.

Try asking them directly if they're pro-Russian.

[email protected] and AntiOutSideAktion and others really hate me for it.

I'm permanently instance banned from @midwest.social and lemmy.ml because of that. The only thing those Ruskis aren't ready to lie about is being pro-Russian, because they know that even if they write that as a lie as a part of their lies, it could still be used as a reason to toss them out of a window.

90%.of bureaucracy means Jack shit