Knowing I’m using a VPN is not the same as knowing where I’m using it from.

The browser thing is bloody irritating, though.

Are there any Russian workplace comedy?

I think I’m dramatically overestimating normal people’s understanding of computers.

I know a VPN isn’t a cloaking device. I just want my ISP to not know what I’m looking up, and my website top not know where I am located.

Would you care to expand upon this point? I know that a VPN is not going to protect me from everything, but “almost nothing” seems harsh.

I would like to know more.

As a pure act, I can’t see that it causes any harm.

However, it will very likely lead to frustration, anger, and poor treatment of the person in question. Those things are bad.

Back when I lived in N. Carolina, there was a local brand called “Dr. Enuff.” Loved that stuff.

On earth? No, not by a long shot. We would need to get into the deconstructing planets business.

I love me some Stratigo.

I picked it up from an episode of Deep Space Nine. Good times.

I thought I was wrong, once. But I was mistaken.

I mean that she has really big boobies. If she just straight up asked for a hug, from literally anyone she can see at any given moment, some 85% or more of men would hug her just too feel those glorious breasts pressed against them.

I suspect a higher percentage of women would give her a hug, either for the same reason, or because they would just want to comfort the person who needs a hug badly enough to ask strangers.

That girl is not wanting for hugs.

The cultural relationship with time is more important than its absolute measurement.

This was the statement at the top of this discussion. It values the local concept of what time should be over an objective measurement of what time is.

The proposed change wouldn’t cause much of a problem. But the idea under the statement I quoted would.

that is such a small edge case that it’s not necessary to talk about them

Did you manage to overlook this point?

In general, stay out of the ducking way.

kind of my point. Trains need accurately measured time in order to run properly.

Tell that to the trains.

Your last point is wrong, at least as you have stated it. Evaporation time is based on surface area, and the required power is based on volume, but you expressed the amount of water as a length.

Still, metric is way better.

I understand, intellectually, that some people might love this.

To me, this is on the same level as offering to set my building materials on fire before I build my house. I can’t imagine any way this could make things better.

when it quits bring entertaining.

It’s utility for the original purpose, communication without limits, (or checking for coffee) is being diminished, and at some point, ill stop using it for that. But as long as there are jokes and titties, it will still be a source of entertainment.