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  • There was once a theory that the reason for the difference in which side a vehicle is driving on the road today, stems from whether a country had many stretches of untamed wilderness with lots of bandits. So if there was a high likelihood that whoever you met on the road was a danger, the horsecart driver preferred passing them on the side of their sword arm (right hand as default), while if you did not have to take that into account, you would pass them on the left hand side.

    The theory has now largely been abandonded as spurious, but it does remain a fact that there were dangerous stretches of roads in older times in Europe as well.


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    No, none of that is true. You think it is easier to work with because it is what you are most used to. People who are only familiar with metric have absolutely no problem working with metric, and your “A foot is 12 inches, which has whole number factors of 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 12. A yard is three feet” is basically goobledigook for metric users in that context and not some kind of advantage.







  • It is not so much the “I want to use it as a toy regardless of the environmental consequences” crowd like you that is the main problem. That would be the “I want to use it to create profit regardless of the environmental and artistic consequences” which is the main problem. They will eventually completely replace actual art, because it profits them and they have no limits to how much slop they can produce.