Yes, since the 60’ in the US the measurements are based on the metric system.

In 1959 the inch was redefined to be exactly 25.4mm.

So the US and any other country using the imperial system is just using metric but which weird conversion just to make things harder.

Yes, it was implemented during the French revolution.

When burying a dead animal, especially a big one like a house, you can contaminate the ground water and the pathogens stay in the soil for a very long time.

It mostly depends on the soil.

For anyone interested in deadstock disposal (who wouldn’t be) I found this great resource : Best Management Practices - Deadstock Disposal

In Ontario it seems that 22% of the farmers are burying their deadstock and 20% of them are composting it.

40% of the world’s population lives in coastal area. Tsunamis are devastating as well so I’m not certain that a giant asteroid falling in the water would be less deadly.

I disagree, but in not in your situation so I can be wrong.

Unless you are producing way, way more electricity than you can use I think net metering is a great arrangement for the customer. (Not so much for the utility company)

The electricity is usually bought by the utility company at a much lower cost than what the customer is paying. Because the generation cost is only a percentage of the cost, there is taxes, maintenance of the grid …

For example in France we pay 0.1952€/kWh, but the utility is buying the solar electricity produced by household at 0.04€/kWh.

Meanwhile with net metering your electricity is virtually bought at the same price as what you are buying your electricity for.

My dishwasher does that. On the Eco cycle it opens the four at the end of the cycle to let it dry

People dying from the heat are older people or people already in bad medical conditions. Not kid or healthy people.

AC could have an influence but the excess mortality due to heatwave is also happening in countries with a lot of AC like Australia : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412025004982?via=ihub#t0010

It’s not really a competitor, Steam’s business is selling games, not consoles.

The steam deck is just one way for them to increase sales on steam.

Net metering is great, much better than being paid for the surplus.

With net metering the grid is basically an free, infinite, 100% effective battery.

How ? Is it just AC ?

We oscillate between 300 and 800kwh per month and it’s with an old water heater, an electric car charged at home, a dryer and electric oven.

This is normal in all the developed countries.

Having and raising children is not a concern only for the mother, the whole community needs to be involved.

You were not allowed to but I can guarantee that you were still screaming in public.

Beans soup, chickpeas soup, lentil soup, they are all amazing.

My favorite is beans and sauerkraut soup and Ukrainian borstch

I’ve looked it up and the Katy Freeway on the picture has an average of 219 000 vehiclra using it per day. Let’s be very generous and assume an average of 1.5 person in each car, so around 329 000 people are moved each day thanks to this highway.

A single metro line or two tramway line moves more people per day than that.

Replace the gun with a car.

How much of the “outside” can a kid access today without taking the risk of being it by a car ? As soon as he crosses the door of the house he risks his life.

I don’t understand how we accepted that as normal.

Now compare that with a carless world, kids could go everywhere.

Abduction or aggression are still a risk but almost insignificant compared to the risk of being hit by a car, yet this is the one we are talking about.

So a horse is cheaper than a car. The average yearly cost of car ownership in the us is around $12k in the US.

This includes car depreciation, insurance, maintenance …

In my village there is a donation place drop stuff they don’t need anymore and take what they need. Half of our kid clothing, it’s great ! A lot of my kids clothing come from there, and go back there once they outgrew it.

There is probably still a bunch of old people with a dialup subscription that they never canceled.

I did not know that the US didn’t have an official ID card.

This is from Wikipedia:

All legislative attempts to create a national identity card have failed due to tenacious opposition from liberal and conservative politicians alike, who regard the national identity card as the mark of a totalitarian society.[1]

It’s still giving google money indirectly.