rutellthesinful

what scenario are you imagining where any of meta’s product offerings are useful to me?

tfw your national strategic reserve of facebook posts is depleted

Without technology prepared to counter teleporters

like the shields all the ships in starwars have?

even if you’re in a situation where it’s somehow possible to manually draw 1/3 of a mm to any accuracy, 1/3 scale draft rulers still exist for metric, so it’s equivalent

I seem to remember you as the one who brought up calculators

because as soon as you have access to a calculator, “off the top of your head” is an irrelevance

well yeah, because 1/8" is 3.175mm

1/3 of a mm is a distance between 1/64" and 1/128"

mechanical pencil lead is only about 0.4mm

I still don’t see how a calculator helps though.

don’t ask me ask the person who posed the “what’s a third of 9.5mm” question

using a ruler to measure a length of 1/8" is as accurate as using a ruler to measure a length of 31mm and eyeballing 2/3 of a mm

the bottleneck at that point is your eyeball and pencil lead, not the unit of measurement

the one third of 9.5 conundrum, which was posed by a metric defender

they weren’t a metric defender

which is literally not true

what scenario is there in your mind where you’d need a precision answer to what 1/3 of 9.5mm is, but also not have access to a calculator? and of those scenarios, how many of them would be solved by the knowledge that 1/3 of 1/8 is 1/24? i’m willing to bet the answer is more or less “none”.

and for those that do exist, you can also get drafting rulers that give you 1/3rds of metric measurements.

the accuracy of your equipment isn’t somehow better because you’re dealing with fractions rather than decimal points

i don’t really like replying to such a long comment with such a short one, but i feel like i need to remind you that the thing that started this chain was

Quick off the top of your head, what’s a third of 9.5mm?

reaching for a string in that situation would be puzzling to me

18ths would need two divisions by three, but thankfully dividing a known measured length by three is easy with a piece of string.

what kind of cartoon fantasyland do you live in where it’s easier to find a piece of string than it is a calculator?

also, all of this is assuming you have your drafting ruler to hand

do you carry it around with you in your pocket on a day-to-day basis? some deep fucking pockets you’ve got there, although I suppose you already that to the 1/24th inch

They can be measured, calculated and double checked

my guy, we’re talking about accuracies of millimeters here: you’re not “double checking” your 12" ruler is accurate by slapping your bare carpet gripper up on the drafting table

we no longer live in the pre-industrial age

thinking that knowing that 1/3 * 1/8 = 1/24 is something that anybody wouldn’t know is stupid

the point is the impracticality of the result being essentially equivalent to 95/3

so in other words you’re helpless in that situation?

we can play the same game with 1/18th or whatever if you want

okay then my answer to the hypothetical is 9.5/3, which is every bit as easy to find on any measurement device, or to use for any practical purpose, as 1/24th

what’s a 1/3 of 1/8th of an inch?

but what kind of protest is “I’ll have no choice but to sell the ape”?

like even if your “threat” is losing you as a member of the community, you’re still selling it to somebody else who will just take your place

other elections, primaries

but those are both votes

ideally, yeah, if you wanted to exercise pressure on the biden administration, you wouldn’t withhold your vote in this specific election, but those “other elections” have already passed

you could vote differently for the house and senate, but arguably that might actually lead to a worse outcome

donations

if you’re very rich, then maybe, but most people aren’t

general social pressure

general social pressure means very little without votes to back it up

sanders has a tidal wave of social pressure behind him, but then lost the primary, so nothing changed

it’s why every time a politician tries to campaign for young voters, they crash and burn, because while young voters often inflict the most social pressure, they never actually go and vote

The alternative is to abstain or vote for someone with no chance

the point isn’t to vote for the person to get them into office

the point is to vote for the person whose policies you prefer, so that you shift the other candidates closer to that position

yeah, 4 years of a very bad candidate is worse than 4 years of a meh candidate, but if you vote that way forever your candidate will never be anything more than meh

appoint three SCOTUS justices, irreversibly damage the environment, and pass voting “reform” to lessen the impact of your future votes

if you think this outweighs the benefit of improving the democrat position going forward, and that’s a perfectly reasonable position to have, then sure vote for them

but don’t act like you never had any choice in the matter, or that voting for somebody else would be meaningless

if you think voting for biden this time is more important, then by all means do that

just understand the choice you’re making, rather than pretending one doesn’t exist

Biden has taken months to stop veto-ing UN votes on Gaza, and even when finally abstaining, his administration pulls its punches by claiming the vote is somehow “non-binding”.

Israel is still bombing Gaza, even after the ceasefire vote.

Biden says he cares about Gaza. His actions say otherwise.

3rd parties aren’t viable

this is just a misconception

if the democrats lose a million votes to a third party, then yeah, they’re going to modify their policies next time around

if you think voting for biden this time is more important, then by all means do that

just understand the choice you’re making, rather than pretending one doesn’t exist

why on earth would any party listen to what you have to say if you preface everything you’re campaigning for with “by the way, i’m still going to vote for you”

your vote is all they want in this scenario

it would be like opening a negotiation with “by the way, i’m absolutely going to pay whatever price you think is fair at the end of this, but i’d like you to consider giving me a discount anyway”