wieson

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You've Just Been Hit By The Metric System Boys⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I was not talking about the yard at all. I was talking about 440. Which is a number not wholly divisible by 12.

  Be true. It isn’t a duodecimal system. Sometimes it needs 12 to get to the next highest unit, sometimes 3 or 8 or 16 or 14 or 5280.

  Being entirely duodecimal would be kinda cool in fact. But it’s not applicable and shouldn’t be used as an argument pro US customary system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You've Just Been Hit By The Metric System Boys⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s a sixth of an ounce? A sixth of a pint? Of a gallon? Of a pound per square inch? Of an inch?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You've Just Been Hit By The Metric System Boys⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, and what’s the significance of 440?
  440 ÷ 12 = 110 ÷ 3 = 36⅔

  Is that really a dozenal (sic. duodecimal) system? Or more like a copecimal system?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it still there‽⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s just polite to not do it when you’re out in society

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banana for scale⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah everyone had their archaic human-derived measures but every city on the Rhine had a different system.

  If you were a cologne cabbage trader and had 100 cologne pounds of cabbage, the would be 104 pounds in Düsseldorf, 98 pounds in Mainz, 91 in Karlsruhe and 102 in Frankfurt.

  Wonderful human derived measurements.

  I get the impression some people think the whole world was English imperial units and then we started to turn metric on a whim.

  Metric is wonderful for international and interregional trade and communication. There’s practically only one blank spot on that map.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anytime I see THIS combo of words, this is what I imagine⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Looked like a whaling harpoon haha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tiddies are nice but the metric system is better⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I redefined 1yd as 1m so 1km = 1000yd = 1kyd

  1000 yd = 3000ft + 1000hd = 3333ft + 1hd

  I think the inch-feet conversion is used more often than the feet-yard conversion, so I kept the 12:1 and broke the 3:1

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tiddies are nice but the metric system is better⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They could be more metric. Just imagine this wonderful reality:

  • 1 inch = 2,5cm
  • -> 1 hand = 10cm
  • 1 foot = 30cm
  • 1 yard = 1 m (=3ft+1hd)
  • 1 pound = 500g = ½kg
  • 1 thou = 25μm
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨POV⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is the city I live in

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Classic Move⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  „Alter vor Schönheit“

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon learns about astronomy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not pictures: lil bro under his covers pranking his brother by screaming faintly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking HATE this smug sack of shit.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  big up pumpernickel

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's class fails expectations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The sad truth is, that even a percentage of the class could have it really good under the system. Just an arbitrary group would disappear (let’s say all names starting with L). If one overlooked the horror the system can still be popular.

  The lesson would be that popular is not moral.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨you can date the time period by popular catch phrases⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m making a note here: huge success

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Team building⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ballet, gymnastics and figure skating are amazing. It’s unfair they only get attention by weird posts like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tomorrow...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For some reason Pi doesn’t get rounded, it gets cut off

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You hate Corporate Memphis eh?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Keith Haring was the guy Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You hate Corporate Memphis eh?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Corporate memphis would’ve been fine if it wasn’t - you know - corporate. If it had lined the halls of youth hostels like those dancy rubber guys it would’ve been just another quirky minimalist art style.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Should I...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I get you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Should I...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Look at this guy. This guy doesn’t even soup

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tasty!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Do your boys like having their tools disintegrate in their hands?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy labor day to real workers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Happy belated labour day!
  Most of the world celebrates on 1st of May, but we can have two days, why not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What did you call me?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  data subject end

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨currently busy 😅⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you guys not have the red and white dots on the lock, signifying occupancy? img of a WC door handle with red indicator

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Biggest, most beautiful pill.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tess-cat, the poker

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨German joke⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, our humour and our everyday conversation is chock full of wordplay. Obviously it’s hard to detect the humour if one doesn’t speak the language. Humour is a nuanced thing anyways and also plays with cultural associations.

  For example if I were with friends in a pub and only ordered one beer and someone asked me why and I replied: “I muss fei spare” , the text itself isn’t funny
  (I have to save money).
  But it would be funny because I said it in a slight Swabian accent and because of the cultural association of Swabians being penny pinchers.
  It wouldnt be hilarious mind you, just a little funny to spice up conversation. How would one translate or even understand that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨German joke⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sitting on the train by myself and cackling. I don’t know why I find it so funny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now we're cooking with gas!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Through an incredible use of free will…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Food served to US service men & women.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Besides the point, but: I have yet to see ai take jobs.

  The misguided belief in ai is costing jobs.

  But that’s also pedantry from my part.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Right back at him⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s even beeer than a regular bee