Ton (imperial) is 2000lb vs tonne (metric)

Online payments, which is a lot of transactions.

This is a great indicator that free will isn’t what we think. I’ve been chatting to maga family about free will through that “how we managed to escape the rabbit hole” lens. There’s often a lot of reasons we have different opinions and tracing the distributed causality is pretty fun because you can avoid the propoganda talking points but still make progress. I think it helps them question information or to be more guarded instead of immediately parroting fox news lines.

I think we are settling into the idea that sacrifices will need to happen somewhere before we can make it better. Not everyone will be able, but the more that can the better. Go to local town halls and watch what they say near you, it might be surprising.

If your hours don’t allow for that, then you have a job that is actively suppressing your ability to work in politics and you would need to try some other approach, if you’re interested in doing.

Military service is another “fantastic” way to get higher education

What’s the other word? There’s a lot of details that are missed where we could have a better functioning democracy, not that it’ll happen. But other words tend to be authoritarian, could be a bias. Anarchism will never count imo :)