Comment on little hopper

RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That the Sumerian’s will use anything but metric.

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Apparently, muricans are a lost tribe of Sumerians.

    Hold on a sec. I need to write up some golden tablets or something.

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    • mkwt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well you see, in 1793, 'Merica requested the metric artifacts from France so we could be metric too. France sent over a kilogram, but the shipment was lost at sea. And that was a little sad.

      All joking aside, US feet, inches, pounds, and so on have been secretly really metric since 1893.

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      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        eh.

        Fun fact. if you use your knucklebones to count instead of fingers, and you use multiplication instead of addition you can get to 144 counting on your fingers. (i.e. one digit on the second hand is equal to a full hand- 12- on the first.)

        yeah. some bullshit about that being why we have 12 hours, and 12 inches in a foot, is totally going into those golden tablets.

        (IIRC, we have 12 hours because there was 10 hours of daylight in Egypt, and an hour on either end for twilight. that evolved into the 24 hour system we have today.)

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      • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Sumerians also tried to metrify, but the copper weights they bought mysteriously corroded

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• TheVelvetGentleman@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This guy doesn’t get bronze age humor.

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  • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Neolithic mfers will see you writing a stone tablet and think “this fool doesn’t know how to sharpen” 😂😂😂

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• kamiheku@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s a screenshot of a Twitter post, that’s a meme right?

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  • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well if we want to get pedantic, every unique thing passed around and spread is a meme. Jokes, art styles, idioms, words, greetings, most social behavior really. And you can go a step further and say diseases, species, even all of life is a meme.

    And if there ever was a place to use this definition of meme it would be… LinguisticMemes, but this is a good second place.

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    • kamiheku@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well if we want to get pedantic

      Let’s! You are absolutely right, of course.

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