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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I really would have liked being a fly on the wall watching a firee console the firer.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It’s a U.S. thing! Yay! You can buy insurance for it if you do a lot of backpacking but that’s rare. I believe it’s in the five figures for a rescue. But apparently occasionally it can be free if you’re lucky enough to get rescued by the one agency whose name I forget.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This was also my impression, especially after the republican primary debate where they were scarily almost all anti-helping ukraine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s not what they’re saying. No one’s going to stop you from living in a suburb 50 miles from your job. But the argument is that maybe a city should stop encouraging people to do so by investing their limited resources in mass transit and denser housing, thus giving some people the option of NOT having to live 50 miles away.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I do find cooking easier in grams. Just put the bowl on the scale and add ingredients until it hits the number. No measuring cups to wash. But it would life changing if woodworking switched to metric. Doing any sort of exact math is annoying as hell. What is 12’7” divided by 4? How many 1/8” is 0.55 inches?? It is my own personal hell.