My wife is a cook - she says recipes using weights are more consistent than volume no matter your units preference but I think you are missing a connection... if you are using weights (grams) you need a scale... period - none of those books will tell you a universal gram to teaspoon conversion and there is not metric equivalent to a teaspoon... but if you do find yourself with a cookbook mentioning weight/grams just plop it in a container on your scale (hell that container can be a half cup measuring cup) and move along.

One is volume, one is weight. Not the same. Keeping using your teaspoon- it’s just a 5ml spoon now. And a tablespoon is just 15ml

The knee jerk - anti change response is strong!

I completely support this but I’m a scientist so already biased here. The only time I really have troubles shifting is temperature… I just like the finer scale of Fahrenheit for the range of human experience.

But in all this pushback what really amazes me is some of the following just seem to be ignored: Doesn’t seem to matter that we already have Km/hr and mph on our cars (just flip the emphasized unit). Or that anyone crossing the Canadian or Mexico border has to “make these conversions” Any mechanic worth their weight has a complete metric set as well as imperial. We buy liquids in liters (coke) a lot! The world has to make special tools for American products (or they don’t and we suck it up… eg cars) and Americans already make/use a lot of shit in metric (computer chips use nanometer as a scale) Also It’s just a name -switching to metric doesn’t mean the existing product has to be replaced. Your 200gal propane tank can still be filled with a metric volume of Propane

Will it require money to change signs - yes. Will a public awareness campaign be needed. Yes. Do I hear a lot of whining about “change sucks and any change is bad” - yes

Sounds like you knew you were playing Russian roulette then. This was a decision, not a lack of information… you finally got caught. And now you want?? Everyone is hard on you because you are expressing a desire to find a way out of a situation you created knowingly. Sorry mate , that’s not how this works.

Well I didn’t blame them for having no money or not asking mom further details… but perhaps sympathetic isn’t the word I’m looking for ;)

Been there, done that. Feel sympathetic for your situation but for any one defending your choice to be uninsured/unbuckled/unregistered - I cry bullshit

Insurance is spendy because of knuckleheads like this who don’t have insurance. They are a liability.

Registration is one of the ways our infrastructure gets paid for. You want free access to the infrastructure but don’t want to pay?

Seatbelts (and I’ve been ticketed too for forgetting mine) are the law. But honest mistakes are made.

Edit: as for suggestions for help. Yes. Make your statement to the court and they may waive penalties for first time offenders especially if you reg and insure the car prior to your due date. Unfortunately they will have little sympathy beyond that and under no circumstances will they allow continued use without reg/insurance so don’t even think that is a valid route. A second violation will likely revoke your license.

An exceptional capture!

I usually use that emoji to represent farts, so your message made me think smokey - farts... i was curious how you could tell that from the image ;p

best combo i think is 🐪💨

You can also take your liquid (assuming it’s water) to a higher pressure (3000-4000 times that of air at sea level) and that should depress the freezing point as well. Might be useful if you want to have a cool beverage while free-falling through Jupiter’s atmosphere. Maybe Randal Monroe of XKCD wants to run with this option ;)

And from within some sort of geodesic awesomeness. Very cool.