Comment on Banana for scale

• petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  But you don’t measure the number of scooters by gram, either.

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  • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is true, but that’s because everybody has accepted the unit of scooter as the accepted unit count for scooters…

    Okay that’s a bad example, because just counting things is the way to count things. But also, maybe that’s the point - maybe, counting things is just super simple, and why direct or single-level abstract measurements is the difference: metric = relating everything to a single point, and imperial = just counting. Yeah? Maybe?

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    • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m not really following. What, are we counting feet, then? Mine?

      Feet are just really entrenched in the way Americans think about lengths. It may not sound like it’s abstract, but it is. If I said “yeah, it’s about sixteen hands long”, people would have to parse wtf I’m talking about, but then have to grapple with how long a “hand” is exactly and what 16 of them means.

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      • Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The foot is no less arbitrary than the meter. If you are just unfamiliar with the unit and confused by the fact it’s named after something often close in size to it that’s fine, but keep in mind for a while a meter was defined as the length of a specific metal rod, same as the foot and yard.

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      • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Depends on how into feet the person is

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    since we’re talking hypotheticals, sometimes you order sausages by the unit, sometimes you order them by weight.

    honestly idc which really, i am the best sassage eater on the team just give me the damn wurst. give me the damn wurst.

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    • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I like to measure a number of wursts by how excited I am to receive them, which can be challenging because this is not a linear function.

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      • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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        I’m at about a 6 on this scale. I have somewhat-happy wursts arriving tomorrow morning.

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There are four scooters

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  • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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