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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. 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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# ? Jun 24, 2021 02:31 |
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# ? May 30, 2024 13:20 |
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Prove it
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# ? Jun 24, 2021 02:33 |
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this is like West Side Story but instead of knives it's rulers.
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# ? Jun 24, 2021 02:39 |
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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. 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 |
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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. the length of an inch is defined as 2.54cm?? good thing imperial units do not actually exist
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# ? Jun 24, 2021 02:58 |
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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. 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.
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# ? Jun 24, 2021 03:00 |
my cyberpunk dystopia: being online and only finding an endless fight over imperial vs. metric
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# ? Jun 24, 2021 03:41 |
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https://twitter.com/FishGuyKai/status/1407671643376214017
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# ? Jun 24, 2021 03:57 |
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silentsnack posted:the length of an inch is defined as 2.54cm??
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# ? Jun 24, 2021 04:01 |
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set your thermostats to 2 7/8 π R you heathens. degrees are for specific gravity jfc
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# ? Jun 24, 2021 04:15 |
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silentsnack posted:the length of an inch is defined as 2.54cm?? 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.
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# ? Jun 24, 2021 04:21 |
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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 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.
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# ? Jun 24, 2021 04:29 |
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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.
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# ? Jun 24, 2021 04:30 |
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this is amazing content
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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
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# ? Jun 24, 2021 04:57 |
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are there any crudely animated universes with base 9 counting system because the characters only have three fingers
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# ? Jun 24, 2021 04:59 |
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
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# ? Jun 24, 2021 05:39 |
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Look, Metric or Imperial aside, I think we can all agree that orchestras should be tuning A to 432 Hz.
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# ? Jun 24, 2021 05:44 |
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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. 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
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# ? Jun 24, 2021 05:57 |
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One inch is defined as the space between your thumb and finger when indicating to someone how close you were.
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# ? Jun 24, 2021 06:00 |
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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
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# ? Jun 24, 2021 06:01 |
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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.
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# ? Jun 24, 2021 06:05 |
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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
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# ? Jun 24, 2021 06:06 |
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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
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# ? Jun 24, 2021 06:15 |
CRUSTY MINGE posted:Man, my time was less wasted playing Fallout 76 and hitting dabs all night, glad I chose wisely. better pounds than stones
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# ? Jun 24, 2021 06:15 |
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Man, my time was less wasted playing Fallout 76 and hitting dabs all night, glad I chose wisely. Weapon rate of fire is measured in bullets per five seconds, for some loving reason.
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# ? Jun 24, 2021 07:03 |
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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
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# ? 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
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# ? Jun 24, 2021 08:06 |
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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. 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 |
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Pounds per square inch as a unit of pressure
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# ? Jun 24, 2021 08:38 |
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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
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# ? Jun 24, 2021 09:32 |
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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
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# ? Jun 24, 2021 09:36 |
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We live in the shittiest possible unitpunk dystopia
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# ? Jun 24, 2021 10:55 |
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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. 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. Facts
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# ? Jun 24, 2021 11:18 |
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Metric system is Ivory tower elitism at its worst
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# ? Jun 24, 2021 11:19 |
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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
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# ? Jun 24, 2021 11:35 |
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lil poopendorfer posted:Metric system is Ivory tower elitism at its worst how is that thumb tower of your doing nowadays?
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# ? Jun 24, 2021 12:34 |
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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:
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# ? Jun 24, 2021 12:57 |
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I don't think I can bend 2 and 3 seperately
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# ? Jun 24, 2021 13:37 |
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# ? May 30, 2024 13:20 |
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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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# ? Jun 24, 2021 13:41 |