Everyone else is focusing on whether the rest of the world uses metric and not that fact that water pressure at a given faucet or shower head will be governed by bernoullis equation which will take 99 things into account such as:
The max height of the water reservoir
The height of your faucet
The design of the pipes leading from the reservoir to your faucet
Imagine if we redrew the state maps every few years. Oh no, my speed limit went down, I have to pay five cents per bag at the store, and the gax tax is not ten cents more per gallon. 😱😱😱
But then November roles around and my vote is way more powerful than it was because now 2 million people are election a senator and in my old state 50 million are also electing a senator.
States obviously used to have cultural sway but pretending they are real in 2024 is absolutely hilarious.
Gerrymandering is just the cherry on top. Well, the cherry in the House.
I guess my angle is if we agree the market isn't just, then maybe you just pay everyone equally? Don't all people need to eat and have a place to sleep?
God gave plenty more laws in the next few books of the Bible. The famous commandments about not mixing fabrics or cutting your hair? Yeah Moses of the Ten Commandments is behind that book too.
So if it makes sense to charge people in India 1/4 the people in the US why can't we pretend we are in India? People travel to other continents for healthcare.
Whatever the fuck podcast popularized the idea that blue just didn't exist? Yeah stupid.
I do believe there is some relationship between one's main language and how it affects thought patterns, but I mean cmon, even if I don't know every word for shades of green (avocado VS chartreuse) doesn't mean I'm not capable of distinguishing them. I may not have an exacting language tool set for distinguishing them. But I could.