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starkebn: May 18, 2004; "Oooh, got a little too serious. You okay there, little buddy?"

HootTheOwl posted:

Ok, Imagine you have a kilogram of water, now divide that by one thousand. You have five of those. VS The little spoon.
So you have the Great circle as it passes though the north pole, and you take one ten-millionth of that... would it be easier if I said it was the distance that light light traveled in 1/300000000 of a second? It doesn't matter which one you use, because you need to divide it again by 100. That's a centimeter. 30 of those. VS *points at the ground*

everyone who uses metric knows about how long a centimetre or 10 centimetres is without thinking of a fraction of the circumference of the earth you fuckwit

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Son of Thunderbeast: Sep 21, 2002

Prove it

# ? Jun 24, 2021 02:33

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

this is like West Side Story but instead of knives it's rulers.

# ? Jun 24, 2021 02:39

World War Mammories: Aug 25, 2006

HootTheOwl posted:

Ok, Imagine you have a kilogram of water, now divide that by one thousand. You have five of those. VS The little spoon.
So you have the Great circle as it passes though the north pole, and you take one ten-millionth of that... would it be easier if I said it was the distance that light light traveled in 1/300000000 of a second? It doesn't matter which one you use, because you need to divide it again by 100. That's a centimeter. 30 of those. VS *points at the ground*

I'm concerned that you may not realize that, in all the countries that use metric, ie. everyone that isn't the US and liberia, they have cooking measures in metric, not imperial

anyway, so long as we're focusing on arbitrary body parts, and noting that there is no body part that could be described as about a meter long, let's bring back the cubit

e: lol I was curious and the loving imperial units for cooking aren't even the same across countries

double e: i will not rest until i achieve victory

World War Mammories has issued a correction as of 02:58 on Jun 24, 2021

# ? Jun 24, 2021 02:56

silentsnack: Mar 19, 2009; Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current President of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality.

HootTheOwl posted:

Ok, Imagine you have a kilogram of water, now divide that by one thousand. You have five of those. VS The little spoon.
So you have the Great circle as it passes though the north pole, and you take one ten-millionth of that... would it be easier if I said it was the distance that light light traveled in 1/300000000 of a second? It doesn't matter which one you use, because you need to divide it again by 100. That's a centimeter. 30 of those. VS *points at the ground*

the length of an inch is defined as 2.54cm??

good thing imperial units do not actually exist

# ? Jun 24, 2021 02:58

endlessmonotony: Nov 4, 2009; by Fritz the Horse

HootTheOwl posted:

Ok, Imagine you have a kilogram of water, now divide that by one thousand. You have five of those. VS The little spoon.
So you have the Great circle as it passes though the north pole, and you take one ten-millionth of that... would it be easier if I said it was the distance that light light traveled in 1/300000000 of a second? It doesn't matter which one you use, because you need to divide it again by 100. That's a centimeter. 30 of those. VS *points at the ground*

Eh you take it too far. It would take great effort to write a post this coherent when being dumb enough to write it unironically.

# ? Jun 24, 2021 03:00

Bilirubin: Feb 16, 2014; The sanctioned action is to CHUG

my cyberpunk dystopia: being online and only finding an endless fight over imperial vs. metric

# ? Jun 24, 2021 03:41

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# ? Jun 24, 2021 03:57

Ham Equity: Apr 16, 2013; The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.; Grimey Drawer

silentsnack posted:

the length of an inch is defined as 2.54cm??

good thing imperial units do not actually exist

No, it's very simple: an inch is three barley corns laid end-to-end.

# ? Jun 24, 2021 04:01

pygmy tyrant: Nov 25, 2005; *not a small business owner

set your thermostats to 2 7/8 π R you heathens. degrees are for specific gravity jfc

# ? Jun 24, 2021 04:15

HootTheOwl: May 13, 2012; Hootin and shootin

silentsnack posted:

the length of an inch is defined as 2.54cm??

good thing imperial units do not actually exist

Or it's the width of your thumb. It's not hard, and the reason why they exist instead of some bullshit math applied to water which you idiots pretend it's constant even though it has a hundred riders making them useless in all contexts except for when you have a tool.
It's amazing how you metric morons have brainwashed yourselves into thinking that units are for conversion and not for conceptualizing sizes.

# ? Jun 24, 2021 04:21

HootTheOwl: May 13, 2012; Hootin and shootin

World War Mammories posted:

I'm concerned that you may not realize that, in all the countries that use metric, ie. everyone that isn't the US and liberia, they have cooking measures in metric, not imperial

anyway, so long as we're focusing on arbitrary body parts, and noting that there is no body part that could be described as about a meter long, let's bring back the cubit

e: lol I was curious and the loving imperial units for cooking aren't even the same across countries

double e: i will not rest until i achieve victory

Being universal isn't what makes a unit good, you loving idiot. What makes it good is that you can apply it in your daily life and have an understanding of what it means.
Metric units have no meaning. They're just as make believe as everything else but unlike a foot they don't even give you a frame of reference. But lol, you let it take over the world. And you wanna know why? The answer is capitalism and trade but if course one of you already got it backwards (because of course a metric apologist would not know their own history) and thought it was revolutionary.
No, moron, switching from things you can understand to having some elite dictate to you what should be the base unit on equally arbitrary criteria is not better.

# ? Jun 24, 2021 04:29

HootTheOwl: May 13, 2012; Hootin and shootin

starkebn posted:

everyone who uses metric knows about how long a centimetre or 10 centimetres is without thinking of a fraction of the circumference of the earth you fuckwit

Oh wow, you mean you take your stupid loving units and translate them into something you can use only to translate them back to useless loving units units? This is a great system you have here.

# ? Jun 24, 2021 04:30

World War Mammories: Aug 25, 2006

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# ? Jun 24, 2021 04:52

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yeah I want to participate but I�d honestly rather just watch

# ? Jun 24, 2021 04:57

Centrist Committee: Aug 6, 2019

are there any crudely animated universes with base 9 counting system because the characters only have three fingers

# ? Jun 24, 2021 04:59

Delta-Wye: Sep 29, 2005

Centrist Committee posted:

are there any crudely animated universes with base 9 counting system because the characters only have three fingers

this is the secret on why the simpsons' stonecutters must keep the metric system down

# ? Jun 24, 2021 05:39

WrightOfWay: Jul 24, 2010

Look, Metric or Imperial aside, I think we can all agree that orchestras should be tuning A to 432 Hz.

# ? Jun 24, 2021 05:44

Antonymous: Apr 4, 2009

HootTheOwl posted:

Ok, Imagine you have a kilogram of water, now divide that by one thousand. You have five of those. VS The little spoon.
So you have the Great circle as it passes though the north pole, and you take one ten-millionth of that... would it be easier if I said it was the distance that light light traveled in 1/300000000 of a second? It doesn't matter which one you use, because you need to divide it again by 100. That's a centimeter. 30 of those. VS *points at the ground*

1/1000 of a liter of water (arbitrary and depends on pressure and temperature) is 1 gram (1/1000 scaling factor *poof* disappears) which is 1 cubic cm (1/100 scaling factor *poof* appears)

yeah that's really good and logical lmao

at least a litre is an easy human relatable volume unlike cm or gram which are too small

# ? Jun 24, 2021 05:57

withak: Jan 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

One inch is defined as the space between your thumb and finger when indicating to someone how close you were.

# ? Jun 24, 2021 06:00

Antonymous: Apr 4, 2009

kraken! posted:

set your thermostats to 2 7/8 π R you heathens. degrees are for specific gravity jfc

kelvin temp scale is not in degrees you whiffed an actually insightful point

# ? Jun 24, 2021 06:01

CRUSTY MINGE: Mar 30, 2011; Peggy Hill
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Man, my time was less wasted playing Fallout 76 and hitting dabs all night, glad I chose wisely.

Speaking of, what loving measurements are they using in that game? Seems like meters for distance but pounds for weight. The gently caress, bethesda.

# ? Jun 24, 2021 06:05

Antonymous: Apr 4, 2009

there's also the planck units which are not quite as arbitrary because they are the only way to convert units without scale factors and/or they derived from universal constants of nature.

But they are all inhuman as gently caress like the fundimental length is a trillion trillion trillion times shorter than a proton diamtere or w/e

except the fundimental energy is what you get when you burn ~10 gallons of gasoline and that one is pretty relatable

# ? Jun 24, 2021 06:06

eSports Chaebol: Feb 22, 2005; Yeah, actually, gamers in the house forever,

WrightOfWay posted:

Look, Metric or Imperial aside, I think we can all agree that orchestras should be tuning A to 432 Hz.

this is now part of Lyndon larouches platform btw

# ? Jun 24, 2021 06:15

Delta-Wye: Sep 29, 2005

CRUSTY MINGE posted:

Man, my time was less wasted playing Fallout 76 and hitting dabs all night, glad I chose wisely.

Speaking of, what loving measurements are they using in that game? Seems like meters for distance but pounds for weight. The gently caress, bethesda.

better pounds than stones

# ? Jun 24, 2021 06:15

Chamale: Jul 11, 2010; I'm helping!

CRUSTY MINGE posted:

Man, my time was less wasted playing Fallout 76 and hitting dabs all night, glad I chose wisely.

Speaking of, what loving measurements are they using in that game? Seems like meters for distance but pounds for weight. The gently caress, bethesda.

Weapon rate of fire is measured in bullets per five seconds, for some loving reason.

# ? Jun 24, 2021 07:03

Ruffian Price: Sep 17, 2016

WrightOfWay posted:

Look, Metric or Imperial aside, I think we can all agree that orchestras should be tuning A to 432 Hz.

ah yes, the original vaporwave

# ? Jun 24, 2021 08:03

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Bilirubin posted:

my cyberpunk dystopia: being online and only finding an endless fight over imperial vs. metric

# ? Jun 24, 2021 08:06

Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

HootTheOwl posted:

Ok, Imagine you have a kilogram of water, now divide that by one thousand. You have five of those. VS The little spoon.
So you have the Great circle as it passes though the north pole, and you take one ten-millionth of that... would it be easier if I said it was the distance that light light traveled in 1/300000000 of a second? It doesn't matter which one you use, because you need to divide it again by 100. That's a centimeter. 30 of those. VS *points at the ground*

It�s not a division of a full great circle. It�s one ten millionth of the distance from the Equator to the North Pole, on the meridian passing through Paris, i.e. a quarter of the polar circumference.

It�s a bit short because the French Revolution caused irregularities in the surveying.

The centi/deci/deca/hecto prefixes are poo poo, though. You got that right. Go straight from millimetres to full metres.

Platystemon has issued a correction as of 08:18 on Jun 24, 2021

# ? Jun 24, 2021 08:15

Rozzbot: Nov 4, 2009; Pork, lamb, chicken and ham

Pounds per square inch as a unit of pressure

# ? Jun 24, 2021 08:38

lollontee: Nov 4, 2014; Can't post for 10 years!

perepelki posted:

i just read the harper's bazaar tiktok article and then opened tiktok for the first time in my life, only to be immediately presented with this

hope someone saved it

# ? Jun 24, 2021 09:32

lollontee: Nov 4, 2014; Can't post for 10 years!

being universally accepted by everyone except morons is actually what makes a system of measurements good. and when bebylon falls... the final bastion of heretical measurements will be annihilated

# ? Jun 24, 2021 09:36

Line Feed: Sep 7, 2012; Seeds taste better with friends.

We live in the shittiest possible unitpunk dystopia

# ? Jun 24, 2021 10:55

lil poopendorfer: Nov 13, 2014; by the sex ghost

HootTheOwl posted:

Or it's the width of your thumb. It's not hard, and the reason why they exist instead of some bullshit math applied to water which you idiots pretend it's constant even though it has a hundred riders making them useless in all contexts except for when you have a tool.
It's amazing how you metric morons have brainwashed yourselves into thinking that units are for conversion and not for conceptualizing sizes.

HootTheOwl posted:

Being universal isn't what makes a unit good, you loving idiot. What makes it good is that you can apply it in your daily life and have an understanding of what it means.
Metric units have no meaning. They're just as make believe as everything else but unlike a foot they don't even give you a frame of reference. But lol, you let it take over the world. And you wanna know why? The answer is capitalism and trade but if course one of you already got it backwards (because of course a metric apologist would not know their own history) and thought it was revolutionary.
No, moron, switching from things you can understand to having some elite dictate to you what should be the base unit on equally arbitrary criteria is not better.

Facts

# ? Jun 24, 2021 11:18

lil poopendorfer: Nov 13, 2014; by the sex ghost

Metric system is Ivory tower elitism at its worst

# ? Jun 24, 2021 11:19

Raine: Apr 30, 2013; ACCELERATIONIST SUPERDOOMER

holy christ what is happening in this thread lmfao

put me down for team metric. imperial is dumb as poo poo and it's telling that it ceases to exist the second you step into your first science class

# ? Jun 24, 2021 11:35

lollontee: Nov 4, 2014; Can't post for 10 years!

lil poopendorfer posted:

Metric system is Ivory tower elitism at its worst

how is that thumb tower of your doing nowadays?

# ? Jun 24, 2021 12:34

Elman: Oct 26, 2009

bawfuls posted:

going back in time and forcing weird experiments on pre-humans until they all have 6 digits on each hand and foot instead of 5 so that humans universally develop base-12 counting systems

Just teach them to count the Sumerian way:

# ? Jun 24, 2021 12:57

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

I don't think I can bend 2 and 3 seperately

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aphid_licker: Jan 7, 2009

Milo and POTUS posted:

I don't think I can bend 2 and 3 seperately

You use the thumb to point at whatever number you're at, if I'm interpreting that pic correctly

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