I think i remember being told about it in sciences class in primary school decades ago... but yeah, it's not like it's used in any way anywhere.

Yeah, it's always been the lynx, officially. But indeed it's not a well known fact, nor is it used anywhere really.

You can google "romanian national animal", all you'll find is the lynx, everywhere. However, i'm unable to find the origin of it.

I never used it, but damn are people here judgy. I don't understand how it's a personal insult if someone used it in the way you're describing. As long as your actual thoughts and emotions are what you send, who cares you used a tool to express them.

Anxiety is rough. I wish people were more understanding.

I love you for that joke.

There's dozens of them i tell you! Dozens!

Ah yes just rolls off the tongue. Totally the same as, an increment of one is equal in both.

A man of culture, i see.

Been working in COBOL for a decade and this is all true.

I'm lucky. I personally enjoy it. But i can totally see how it's an absolute nightmare for most people.

People who grow up almost anywhere else on earth can also tell how big something is based on their experience with metric. That's not something inherently based on the imperial system. The same way you go "oh that's about 3 feet", we go "oh that's about 2 meters".

And of course, switching systems overnight is insane, people are used to imperial, you're right. But at the very least do what Britain did, and have both systems in parallel at the same time, everywhere. And in time, people would get used to metric too.

Nono, you're fine doing that, just make sure you're bleeding hard enough so that the manure can't get in the bloodstream.

I made absolutely no mention of Ukraine and i would have written this comment with no changes ( and i probably have ) years before the invasion. It's a strawman on your part to assume i uncritically support Ukraine ( or the US or EU for that matter ), just because i'm criticizing Russia. And if anything, i feel like we echo the same sentiment in both our comments, that just by criticizing one side doesn't mean that the other doesn't have flaws.

It just doesn't mean they're equally bad either.

At the very start, i point out that this worldview of all politics and politicians are dirty and corrupt is being pushed by Russia in many countries. I didn't think i need to mention that i'm including Italy.

This attitude of "all politics and politicians are equally dirty" is straight out of the russian propaganda playbook. This is the narrative they've pushed in my country for decades, and it's chillingly effective. It closely resembles whataboutism, whenever you criticize a politician, people yell "AS IF THE OTHER SIDE IS BETTER."

Why push this narrative, you ask? So that people become so disillusioned and apathetic that they don't vote, so it takes less votes for Russia to get the parties it wants into power. It also breeds internal dissent, malcontent, instability, leads to low voter turnout.

Russia also pushes a version of this at home, and in allies like Belarus. The gist being, all politics is dirty and corrupt, don't get involved, don't vote, nothing matters, it doesn't concern you.

So yeah, sorry about the rant, but when i see variations of that quote "if your vote mattered, they'd make it illegal", i get really annoyed. If your vote mattered, they'd make you think it doesn't so you don't vote.

Do you?

We wouldn't mind so much if your system wasn't so damn arbitrary, and if you weren't literally the only country on earth to refuse to come together with the rest of us.