It might not be legal, but it’s already morally acceptable to shoplift from Coles and Woolworths

I just don’t because it would be a massive pain if I were to be caught

This is so fucking stupid. I’ve worked in hospitality, saying please and thank you just comes with the territory no one needs to be checking if you do it.

In a cafe that’s the whole service (in my country at least): being friendly to people, and providing a nice place to hang out and have a coffee, the actual beverage is secondary.

Saying please and thank you is such base politeness. You can easily be rude or cold even when you do use them, and conversely, be absolutely lovely without using them at all.

People don’t go to burger king for the pleasantries, the amount of politeness you should expect is the same as anyone else walking down the street.

Policing politeness with technology is stupid. People should ask each other how they’re going genuinely. Not from a place of corporate greed.

Fuck this capitalist dystopia.

Eh, it’s already fairly obvious using both systems side by side across the internet.

Though I suppose in actual work you’re correct. I use 3 decimal places for metres on drawings a lot, because I like it to be easy to read the mm.

It being 1,000 m or 1.000 m is of course a huge difference haha

A boy can dream 🥹

But commas and dots don’t form part of the metric system?

Ihr könnt gerne umwechseln wenn ihr wollt :3

My main argument for the English/Chinese/Indian system (I have no idea where this system originated), is that in many languages (including German), commas function as pauses and full stops (period, by the Americans) as a stronger separator between thoughts, so it makes more sense to seperate digits with commas (in my opinion)

It’s all ultimately arbitrary, and I don’t really care which we pick.

I don’t really care which, but if I’m not mistaken it’s the majority of the world population in this case not just the US.

I just hurts my soul that it’s inconsistent.

By population decimal point wins?

I don’t really care which, but my heart craves standardisation*

(*where it makes sense. I don’t think language based differences in how many digits between separators needs to be world-wide. Eg. In East Asia you separate in groups of 4 digits, not 3 because of language)

lol serves its own grammatical function now I reckon.

It’s a marker for response to irony (actual irony, Americans…), or as a way to indicate you think something is stupid to the point of humour, or as a kind of “that tracks”.

Or at least, that’s how it’s used amongst people my age in Australia.

I don’t think I use it in a positive sense at all any more