What base 12 gives you is a lot of common divisors: 2, 3, 4, and 6. Base 10 only has 2 and 5. Base 16 only has 2, 4, 8.
The practical upshot of this is that you can divide things evenly in more ways. Particularly when wanting to divide a board into thirds. Having 12 inches to a foot is actually helpful there, though it falls apart as soon as you get larger.
I like it better for cooking, especially for sous vide. One degree C is too wide of a range, but 0.1C is too precise. One degree F is just right.
Conversely, grams are way better than ounces for measuring things. My coffee needs 700ml of water. I can get that precisely by measuring 700g on a scale.
Basically, measuring system purity is not a virtue. Flexibility is.
You don’t need to put algae in cities. They can be basically anywhere to absorb CO2.
Trees in cities tend to be carefully chosen for the environment. Are we in a climate where we need to put salt on the road in the winter? Choose trees that can tolerate some salt in the ground.
In the Foldgers Cinematic Universe, these two are siblings. They also give each other looks at the end that said “after we’re done with this coffee, we’re going to fuck”.