FYI I love metric, I just think it is funny how âimperial badâ gets parroted. It isnât dumb, it actually makes a lot a sense for a lot of situations. That doesnât mean anyone has to use it, but the fact that we do doesnât make us idiots.
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5.56mmâŠ
need I say more?
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Never said anything about that. Speak for yourself⊠
I love mils for through hole stuff, mm for SMD stuff, and use whatever is easiest depending on the standards of what Iâm working on.
Still, I love metric even if the km is a worthless nonsense unit that started off with a huge mistake.
Iâm an idiot.
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Then what am I!? Frick!
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imperial / standard is just antequated thinking from a time when precision tools were limited and calculation were done by hand.
Iâm not trying to convert you or anybody else, you do you, Infact keep doing it because it is entertaing for the remaining 96% of the worlds population
Apologies 24/25ths
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I want to know what the point is of making fun of Americans for using a system that actually works fine, because all it does is reinforce a stereotype and entrench peopleâs positions.
We could be having a laugh about all sorts of stuff, but you have a need to âotherâ a specific population because you believe that divisors of ten make so much more sense than divisors of twelve, which has no basis in anything besides the number of fingers that we have.
I really hope you take a minute to reflect on exactly what you are trying to accomplish here.
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Itâs just jokes. I donât think anybody here is really all that worked up about measurement systems. The âanything but metricâ is a long running joke here on the forum
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Well, as an American, Iâm having a laugh with my metric friends, who know I find it funny too.
Ever get together with a group of friends and everyone gets picked on, with a genuinely friendly ribbing?
Thatâs what Iâm doing.
Besides, they canât help it, and I love my poor metrickey friends just the same. 
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Considering that Iâm sort of the product of two American schools, you can blame them Americans for both my understanding of metric and my hatred of fractionsâŠ
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you mean you hope we take six decaseconds to reflect? 
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Maybe I am being overly sensitive, or was just having a bad day. But âjust jokingâ when it targets someone or a group of people because of an aspect that makes them different from a group has a definition. Maybe it applies here maybe it doesnât; all I know is that the topic is just asking for this type of conflict. There are all kinds of aspects of culture that can be targeted once it is agreed that is a valid thing to target for jokes.
Itâs not my forum and Iâm not going to make any more of a thing out of it.
itâs everybodyâs forum, your opinion is as valid as anybody else.
FYI
You can also mute the chat
Scroll to the bottom of the chat you want to mute
Also
You can mute individuals,
I can guarantee I will offend you you will be offended by me, so hereâs how to mute me
No harm no foul, mute to your hearts contentâŠ
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I am not offended by anyone. I was voicing a concern. I hope you understand the difference.
The only thing about this forum I find offensive is the use of Discourse as the platform.
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Haha really? Iâve found it to be quite the useful platform - open source and definitely capable. What others might one suggest?
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Lack of pagination, inability to select text from or save a whole thread, broken scrolling, broken search, overengineered, gamification. It was designed for engagement, not usability.
But mainly I just canât stand the way it does infinite scrolling. All other things are secondary.
Fun read: (edit: the user codinghorror is Jeff Atwood, the creator of discourse)
Anything else.
Edit: I am highly opinionated about software, in case it wasnât obvious.
Edit 2: I apologize for being a dick.
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Discourse has a built-in print function
While on the thread, simply press Ctrl + P in Windows or Mac equivalent
Discourse will automatically try to load all posts and format them into a printer-friendly layout. You can then select âSave as PDFâ
I think there might be another way too
I havenât seen that, do you have an Example or screenshot
My experience has been quite the opposite
Example?
You mean the retorts? Badges?
Personally I find it both
Untill you get to the bottom of the thread, and the average number of posts per thread would be fewer than 10.
They thread, the we are in is the obvious huge exception to the rule
Everybodyâs experience is different
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oh it was obvious 
thatâs ok though. Iâd rather have people with in-depth opinions, even if I donât agree with the entirety of them.
hahah Iâve used others⊠vBulletin, phpBB, etc.. and I simply like Discourse from an easy to deploy, easy to admin, decent features, good plugin framework, good plugin availability, open source, free standpoint.
Itâs a chill vibe here.. no apology needed.. weâre all just having a bit of fun
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