I can't imagine anyone that has decent prospects would agree to go back to Tesla after getting canned with those kinds of wild swings in decision making.
Indeed know a guy who got played 9ff by big blue. He was the only one who could do his job so he has screwed them as a contractor for 500 a day 100% working from home and a loooooong termination clauses
I'm starting to hear people talk in km but nothing official
We use lb and stone at home for weight but medical its kg
Personally I was taught in the 80s and early 90s they trued to teach us both metric and imperial. I also did an apprenticeship in metric on imperial lathes and mills
I have no clue how less than an inch works past 40, thou being 1mm
I struggle with my weight in kg.
Miles might as well be a unit of time as beyond telling you how long it takes to get somewhere miles are useless
Bonus anecdot
When I moved out of my parents I had to ask for help buying minced beef because growing up I learned I needed 1/2 lb of minced beef but it was packaged I'm 500 grams
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Apparently their income has increased so as far as they are concerned they are.
Amusingly my wife is ready to cancel because she got an add for one of their shitty mobile games instead of end credits while watching on her tablet in bed
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The US population only accounts for 4.2% of the world.
Corpos being corpos ( sh.itjust.works )
Young Canadians are being priced out of home ownership and even parenthood. Why on earth would mandatory national service make them love their country more? ( www.thestar.com )
UK petition of "Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state" just got thrown back to the Government
I just received this email saying that the response "did not respond directly to the request of the petition"...
Australia’s richest woman seeks removal of her portrait from exhibition ( www.cnn.com )
RIP Twitter Dot Com: Elon Musk Moves Social Network to X Web Address ( variety.com )
Seriously, why aren't most people using adblock these days ( lemmy.world )
Elon Musk laid off the Tesla Supercharger team; now he’s rehiring them ( arstechnica.com )
I can't imagine anyone that has decent prospects would agree to go back to Tesla after getting canned with those kinds of wild swings in decision making.
We may never know ( lemmy.world )
How old is the oldest building in the town you live in?
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Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT ( www.tomshardware.com )
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Does Big Ben imply the existence of a Little Ben?
BONG BONG BONG...
David Cameron backed Israel arms sales two days after death of UK aid workers ( www.theguardian.com )
All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week ( arstechnica.com )
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How often had I overlooked women's contributions ? ( lemmy.ml )
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