I grew up and lost all respect for Nate over something really trivial that made me realize he was full of BS.
He said imperial measurements are better because you could say you ran "4 miles", he said saying you ran 3.2km would just sound stupid so why would you want metric?
Does he think people in countries that use metric are agonising over having to round distances (just like imperial would the majority of the time) or wish they could express it in miles?
Does he always run in exact mile increments every single time?
Rant over but it made me irrationally mad.
He might have been joking but didn't care enough to find out.
Using larger units means you're more likely to have to resort to fractions lmao, I wish shit here was measured in mm and ml/mg instead of fucking fractional inches and decimal ounces.
Ahhh imperial, the system that uses the same metric to measure volume and weight and half the time people forget to specify which kind they're talking about.
hell yeah saying "8 3/5ths cubic inches" makes you sond really smart, and having to use a calculator to convert to the next step (2 1/3rd cubic feet) is not supid at all
because you could say you ran "4 miles", he said saying you ran 3.2km
When does anyone need to say 4 miles with running as opposed to any other distance? The only popular running thing with a round distance is a 5k, which is km, and the 'mile' run, but everything else is in metres.
Hi Nate, there are over 50 universities protesting now. Last I checked, 50 does not equal 8, but unlike you I'm not the Math Expert so maybe I am wrong.
That's only the number of universities with tent encampments. My uni doesn't have encampments but we've had hundreds protesting and a couple people arrested in the past couple days.
These fucking Twitter liberals have spent so long arguing against leftists, that they really cannot comprehend the fact that the leftist position on Gaza is entirely mainstream, overwhelmingly popular, dominant. They are the absolute fringe, the weirdo wackos. They are Democrats who are to the right of most Republicans.
I love how it’s obvious common sense that - as cool as the protests are - you can’t take some 50 protests that involve a relatively small number of people even as a total of the respective student bodies and extrapolate that as indicative of what tens of millions of people in an age cohort think. Literally no one is saying that. But Nate has to add some very technical sounding words to let you know he very smart and is a very big boy who understands everything better than you.
I mean yes, he's right, but not in this context. I don't see any protests at Harvard or Yale or Brown and if I did, they would probably be midnight marches with torches and pointy white hoods. These boys aren't going to sacrifice their future careers in the CIA to attend a Gaza rally.
FYI not that I generally disagree with the idea that the average Ivy League student is exactly what you say but there are ongoing pro-Palestine protests/encampments at all three of those universities too
I'm struck by this passage from Against Empire by Michael Parenti, published 30 years ago:
Mainstream pundits and propagandists label our desire to move away from corporate militarism and imperial domination as weakness, folly, isolationism, or self-defeating pacifism. But there is another name for the course of action that aims to wrest the wealth and power out of the hands of the military-industrial complex and the multinational investor class and give it back to the people so that they can become agents of their own lives and social conditions: it is called democracy, the victory of the republic over empire.