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Gallon/4=Quart
Quart/2=Pint
Pint/2=Cup
Cup/4=Quarter Cup
Quarter Cup/4=Tablespoon
Tablespoon/3=Teaspoon
Lots of people responding with "just use metric," but cooking is, like carpentry, a discipline in which using fractional rather than decimal measures actually makes sense.
A sixteenth of a liter is 62.5 milliliters. A sixteenth of a quart is a quarter cup. Fractions scale better than decimals.
(Fractions scale better than decimals in the ranges that chefs use. Decimals scale better than fractions in the ranges that scientists use.)
Anyway, yes, there are big upsides to decimalization, particularly in an age of digital technology. But there's a reason why feet have 12 inches, circles have 360 degrees, and cups have 48 teaspoons. Being able to divide neatly by multiples of two and three is a big deal.

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This is such an interesting clip. He's clearly really nervous about saying the wrong thing, using the wrong phrasing, but at the same time he's got something he actually wants to SAY, and so he winds up going for it.
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(If I’d had a few more characters I’d have gone with “often don’t trust” and “this kind of shit.”)
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It’s a shame we don’t learn more of this history. It’s essential stuff.
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And then she's hanged by the government. At fourteen.
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Feels like the folks behind the first take and the folks behind the second take should have a chat.
When politics appears to you to be fundamentally broken and the crises facing society appear to you to be overwhelming, despair and radical action are the only two courses of action left to you.
And "politics is fundamentally broken" and "the crises facing society are overwhelming" strike me as eminently reasonable positions to hold right now.
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This is such an odd, and oddly persistent, urban legend. (Hitler didn't design the Beetle.)
The earliest designs for what would become the Beetle date from before the Nazi rise to power, and were dusted off and —by actual car designers—when Hitler was like "I'd like to get a cheap car with certain broad specs into production."
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Thursday night: Biden, congressional leadership, and progressive Dems stand unified against Manchin and Sinema, raising hopes for joint passage of reconciliation and infrastructure bills.

New York Times front page, Friday morning:
I'm reading the first article now. It's even worse and stupider than the headline.

"Short of support amid a liberal revolt." "A humiliating blow to Mr. Biden and Democrats."
How do you characterize a situation where the president, the leaders of the House and Senate, the squad, and 95+% of House and Senate Dems are all in lockstep against two Senators?

Why, "the distance between the party’s left flank and a few centrists," of course.
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