Baking is a big one yes. Not just American recipes - old British ones too. And there are various useful estimations you can use too; one egg is about an ounce. Three ounces each of flour, sugar, butter plus three eggs makes a pretty good Victoria sponge which fits nicely in a 12cm baking tin.
The madness continues
The UK….yeah
Distance in miles but fuel in litres so miles per gallon figures that we are given are basically just a scale to compare against other cars.
Except on our roads some things are actually in metric, like if a sign says “100 yards” that’s actually 100 meters, since it was the first step in converting everything to metric (which we appear to have given up on)
Beer and milk are in Pints…but some places now do milk in litres.
Shops must sell loose items in metric, but are also allowed to sell them in imperial
I grew up being taught in both, but was told that metric was the future so not to worry too much about imperial, so I confuse the number of ounces in a pound quite often, amongst other things
Where I work, the vast majority of things are metric…except very old drawings, which sometimes use yards.
Honestly I would prefer we just switch to metric and stay there, but the road sign argument is “cost” and even 20 years ago that was quite valid.
I saw the photo with a person for scale and I thought…why?
Oh Hi Johnnie I didn’t know it was you
I would like to see 4chan challenge this and prove that this law is utterly stupid and should be repealed.
Something about not eating the seeds whilst Hades is about, right?
Berlin Hbf. They have a single set of toilets about half the size of what you’d get in a shopping center which cost €2 with turnstyle access for a station the size of a cathedral with something like 20 platforms. 🙈
I don’t know why you would want to do that? Just drink less beer?
And you don’t even need to do that. Press “Reject all and subscribe” and then go back in your browser.
I’ve tried it. Can’t really see much difference from not using it. As others have said, being a personal user you’re not much of a target - being smart about what you run on your computer has much more of an effect on security.
In the future I probably won’t bother
I found a personal tutor and I spend an hour with them every week (online). Outside of that I watch YouTube videos (with English subtitles) and practice with friends who I have who know the language too. I have tried Memrise, Duolingo and others in the past and I have made considerably more progress this way.
Basically: find someone who can actually make sure you’re getting something from it and find a good way to practice too
I have an original reMarkable (not the 2) and whilst it’s a but slow for big fancy scanned PDFs it is generally pretty good for what I want. It does also run linux so you can ssh into it and do everything locally away from their cloud services which is nice
It makes me sad when I see the name because Kagi used to be a payments processor for shareware and essentially a predecessor to modern app stores…but before enshittification.
This isn’t just Denmark. And businesses often host events with them: https://humanlibrary.org/
When the real crime is that being a US KitKat the chocolate is awful.
The Polish word pierdolić “to fuck” is so versatile there exists this excellent reference resource: https://pierdology.webflow.io/
Found the American
See also the Camelford disaster
If you need to use adb to set a flag once that’s not too bad I suppose…