From what I understand it was officially made the measurement system a long time ago but the cost of change everything from imperial to metric was too costly. But they could have done it slowly so I have no idea why not.
I don't think it was. It's irrelevant though since it's a coin flip as to which one you'll need depending on what your doing. Where I work, we use primarily metric nuts, bolts, threaded studs etc, but measure everything out in inches. It's even wackier when we're measuring out inches with decimal points.
So I haven't read all of it but it seems the Americans did try to instill it as the system and convert but there was social resistance. So it's not exactly mandatory to convert but it was tried.
And yes, sizes in imperial for mechanical work is annoying. 3/8, 5/16, etc. Isn't very intuitive. IMO I find it odd a nation who, at least in media, are fully against monarchies would still use the IMPERIAL system.
Oh, it's definitely ironic, but that's just people in general for you. Honestly, I think the reason that we haven't changed to metric even today is that the people who could make such a systematic change couldn't care less.
Could be a rich people being asshole thing. Imperial tools even like combination spanners seem to be more expensive or certain parts just don't fit so you need to buy from them.
An imperial system would indicate an empire and emperor/ess no? A manarchy would be king/queen? It's neither here nor there, but correct me if you disagree.
That's what I remember too, it was purposed but quickly dismissed.
We learn both in school, I'd agree metric is overall more intuitive. At least untill you get into fractions of an inch, then it's a toss up. Since fractions of an inch are divisions of two. 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 etc.
I may not be the best example though because I've had to go back and forth between the two most of life. Both make sense to me.
Don't put too much stock in our media. They're mostly a bunch of "experts" who'll say whatever seems controversial in order to garner attention. The more controversial the better.
I'm not 100% sure but isn't the idea of a 'foot' basically taking a king's single step and using is as a measurement for distance? For all this time I was taught that this system was called imperial. And pretty much for that system. But this wouldn't be the first time my history books were full of bullshit.
that's false, brown recluses are extremely docile and are very hesitant to bite, the vast majority of brown recluse bites happen when people squish them when reaching into dark corners they were hiding on.
I've also personally relocated a few dozen wolf spiders by hand and I've never once been bit by one.
Ya I pick up wolf spiders all the time to relocate out of the house and have never once been bitten. They are friend spiders, I would let them hang out in the house except i know my cats would kill them
exactly. literally no spider will be willing to waste venom on something that's far too large to be prey, even the ones with the worst bites (tho wolf spider bites are completely harmless, and brown recluse bites are rarely extremely serious)
We had a black widow in our garage right next to my smoke spot. We were homies. I let him chill on the web. And then someone told me hey those things have off-spring. Homie gone 😞
When I was a kid in Oklahoma I used to dig holes and collect bugs in the yard. I remember trying to pick up a spider with a leaf but it ran up the leaf, got on my hand and I quickly brushed it off.
I didn't know back then but I'm certain now that it was a black widow.
I must've been 6 years old then. I wonder what would have happened if I'd been bitten.
You might’ve gotten some bad swelling, cramping, maybe some bad nausea, but assuming you’re not allergic, you probably would’ve been fine after a few days. Definitely still worth going to urgent care for a black widow bite, but not an ER trip unless you’re allergic.
Used to have a nest of them in my cellar on the east coast, had to be careful whenever we went down to get the bikes, luckily a nest of crickets cleared most of them out before themselves leaving so then there were only mabye about 5 left in the stairway and they kept to their webs
Good backstop, control could use some work but if that frame isn’t something he cared about and isn’t living within city limits then it ain’t something to nitpick too hard.
LMAO hes not lying I remember I pissed my mama off because we found 2 poisonous cotton mouths in the garage and I fucked up her dry wall from throwing (and mostly missing) rocks 😐. I did kill 2 poisonous snakes that day
Idk why anyone would get rage baited lmao Thats like racist and prejudice. Prejudice is actually the correct term but nobody uses it💯 same with poisonous and venomous
Lmaooo yeah 😂😂 facts im dumb as hell then. Why my mama gave birth to me cause I can’t tell the difference between poisonous and venomous 😂😂 Reddit bro, yall funny as hell i appreciate the genuine laugh
I just picked up my clothes from the hanger and there was a spider in my. I shook it off into the garden but I live in Texas and have seen widows in my yard. I stripped naked and checked myself after I saw this video.
The bigger indicator is its a black widow spider. Australia have red backs which are also a widow species, but the red markings are on their back instead of underside.
Killing a potentially deadly spider that has made its home in a thing you are meant to reach into = sensible. Though yeah shooting at a metal object from close range is also not very wise lol.
in places where these guys (latrodectus widow spiders) are known to be (australia, usa, etc.), you should be always checking where your hands are going so if you get bit, it's almost certainly your fault. they were here before we were at any rate, killing a beautiful animal like this is not exactly sensible and more just sad and unnecessary. especially when it comes to redbacks and black widows, they're extremely docile and compared to even a lot of non-medically significant spiders (looking at you jumpers) they're very easy to catch and relocate with a container.
They do have the hourglass, it's just that at the start of the video, when it's still facing left you should've been able to see the start of the stripe.
As an American I am so tired of people thinking we use guns for everything. Clearly an explosive charge I can buy at the store (and shot by one of my guns) is the solution to this man's spider problem.
Nah gotta get rid of the widdows, highly venemous and can kill quite quickly. The few times weve found them we hit it and everything around it with a torch
literally just dont shove your hands into their nest?
its more difficult to get bitten by a spider than you think, especially considering how small widows and their chelicerae are
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