I agree with base 10 being inconvenient, but I'm failing to see what that has to do with the metric system. The principle could be applied to any base; base 10 just happens to be the one that we're (currently) using.
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Content seem identical to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38191008
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>Your made the perfect argument in favor of the unions, by sheer ignorance.
What percentage of swedes are in the port workers union that apparently decides what can be imported into the country?
The argument that dockworkers single-handedly is deciding what is allowed to be imported is simply false to begin with. The members of the Transport don't dictate what's allowed to be imported - there's just no-one that's willing to unload cars of this specific brand before the ship has to leave again. There's a difference, as Tesla could try to import them by other means.
So far there's at least five large unions that have already joined or is about to join the strike, as it affects the whole of Sweden. To calculate how many members there are in the unions that are currently involved and actively support these actions you'd have to include mechanics (IF Metall), dockworkers (Transport and Hamnarbetarförbundet), electricians (Elektrikerförbundet), maintenance workers (Kommunal) and postal service employees (SEKO). These five unions amount to about 1M members in total, or 19% of the Swedish workforce, as some of them have members from more than one field.
The pressure will be incrementally increased until Tesla realize that they have the whole nation against them, so you would pretty soon have to include the full 70% of the working population to calculate how many members there are in the unions that's currently involved. The docks is a good place to start but as we've seen today, that was merely a warning shot - as advertised in advance.
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TraspSE commented on Workers in Sweden Will Expand Strike Against Tesla nytimes.com/2023/11/07/wo... · Posted by u/sunbum
You’ll never win an argument that has such different cultures in the comment section, sadly. Not only are there the US ideas of unions here, but also Musk fanboyism. It’s a lost cause!
I'm not really expecting to turn any Musk-fanatics around if I'm being honest, even though a serious argument or two from a couple of them could be fun. I'm more interested in providing context to those who read the comments and haven't thought about this matter in a context other than that of the US.
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TraspSE commented on Workers in Sweden Will Expand Strike Against Tesla nytimes.com/2023/11/07/wo... · Posted by u/sunbum
You are an apprentice house builder. Your boss hands you meter-stick, with 100 lines on it to mark out the centemeters, and asks you to cut him a piece of wood which is 1/3 meter long. This puzzles you, because you can't find a line on that stick which indicates 1/3rd of a meter.
So you go back to your boss, and he grumbles, but gives you another meter stick, with 1,000 lines on it. You still can't find a line on the stick which indicates 1/3rd of a meter....
Arguing in favour of base 12 systems would make sense if it seemed doable to introduce more numerals and replace base 10 altogether, in my opinion, but that's not realistic.
Besides, if you live somewhere where the metric system is used, and you're unable to manually measure and cut one third of a meter (0.333m/33.3cm/333mm/333333µm) with the same speed and precision as you would be able to using a yard-stick - then you probably shouldn't be allowed near the tools needed in the first place.
PS. In practice, the boss would've asked you for a piece that is either 3dm, 33cm or 333mm long, indicating the expected precision.