Comment on London Mayor Sadiq Khan calls on Labour Party to reverse Brexit and rejoin EU at next election

Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s those kind of problems that makes me think it’s unlikely to happen.

  Metrification alone practically caused a constitutional crisis.

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  • jabjoe@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    No, please for metrification on us. Imperial wastes so much brain. As computers rarely have a way of entering fractions, you end up with decimals of an inch, or miles, etc. Stupid stupid system. Start with putting all distances and speed in both units, wait 30 years, and remove the imperial. It is aging out anyway, slowly. Fahrenheit is almost gone at least.

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    • RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I just realised, the computer part is ironic since traditional fractions are a binary series. In binary 0.1 is 1/2, 0.01 is 1/4, 0.001 is 1/8, etc.

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      • jabjoe@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Don’t know when it stops doubling and switch to thousandths. I mean it’s not like imperial worries about sticking to any bases anywhere else.

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    • RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      you end up with decimals of an inch

      tbf engineers were using decimal inches (as thou or mil) basically forever.

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      • jabjoe@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Well you have to. My old school engineer dad thinks of everything in “thou”, thousandths of a inch. And if it was all base ten, it wouldn’t be a problem. I had to deal with an imperial label last few weeks, with 3/64 and 3/32 parts. Anyone picking this up isn’t going to know that, they just see 0.046875 and 0.09375.

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  • kboy101222@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Lord Justice Laws

    Good god, why not just change your name to Lawyer McJudgeface

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• Sunshine@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Shouldn’t have left if you wanted to keep the early bird exceptions.

  Danes giggling at the Brits tripping over themselves.

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• Drigo@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Well, Sweden joined the EU in 1995, and still haven’t ditched the Swedish kroner.

  So the uk can also “commit” to change to the euro, and basically not do it like others have done

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  • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yeah but that was then, I don’t think the same things apply today, for brexit Britain… I mean do you really want to be part of the club this time?

    Also, sweden is just a small, not that internationally important, country. I think that helps them staying away from committing fully.

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