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The problem is, the reasoning you are using is how false equivalency gives itself credibility that it cannot earn on its own merits. It's not an opinion if I say an apple is not an orange, and these two events are not the same thing. Opinion is not part of this argument. This is why people argue endlessly about politics-reality has been divorced, and it's just opinions. This serves absolutely no purpose.

While it would he handy to have everything integrated, it's not always vital. We don't need to convert kilograms to seconds very often. Artificially enforced systems have always had trouble replacing older anachronistic ones that are otherwise still useful. Ask people in the UK about their cars' efficiency and you'll often get an answer in miles per gallon.

There's nothing magical about 10, either, other than the accidents of evolution that left us with ten fingers. Base 12 is also extremely convenient, and comes from Sumerians counting with their thumb against each of the three joints on 4 fingers. Go through that process once for each finger on the other hand, and you get 60. And of course, in any industry where things are packed into packages, like nearly everything we buy, dozens fit better than tens. 60 divides very neatly into many convenient and geometrically simple fractions, and a lot of what we do with circles benefits from this.

We probably would have been better standardizing on a base unit that's a power of two, which has more mathematical weight than ten does.

It may indeed all work out, but I cannot see any possible benefit at all to karma. No matter the intention, it allows opinions to be formed without reading content. People will almost always act like sheep, and too many people will associate karma with legitimacy. I think it would be an incredibly foolish thing to adopt it.

If that's what you want to take from it, it's up to you. That was not my intention. What I said is entirely true.

We all know that situation where poop exits the back of the diaper and runs up the spine to the shoulder blades. What we have here is a Failure To Contain.

Yep. But in a setting where we only see what they write, it's what we've got. But hey.

Just because the current system doesn't do what you want, you think going back to a system of cheating and popularity contests is good? Think carefully about that. Unless you're the sort who also refuses to listen to music that isn't on the Top Ten list and only goes to blockbuster movies. If that's the case, honestly the Fediverse may not be the place for you.

What a thought...we'll have to form opinions of people based upon what they write, not on points that could always be faked or whored. Popularity is an incredibly stupid measure of quality. I'd like to see the up/down arrow on threads replaced by a simple view counter, too.

Words like this are fun for schoolkids but don't say anything at all about what was actually done. It's an effort to take something phenomenally complex and reduce it to a slogan. Slogans are good for fostering outrage, but not much else, and they distract attention from detail. Leave slogans to politics, not history.

It's an invasive species that has been working its way west across North America. I hadn't heard of it in SoCal yet; this would be a drag. OP, what lake was it in? There may be rangers or similar authorities you could notify so they could look.

Even Wikipedia results are 20 or more results down. I use Google search less every day.

I'm not commenting on the legality or appropriateness or intelligence of either invasion, but on the nature of the goals behind them.

One was an attempt at forcing a regime change, the other was an attempt at regime elimination and annexation of territory.

Both can and should be criticized, but not for being the same thing. They weren't.