CuriousRefugee
@CuriousRefugee@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Florida ounces 3 days ago:
Ridiculous. The metric system is all the same. How many millimommies in a decamommy? I dunno, but it’s 10 or 100 or 1000 or something like that. Everything is a factor of ten, and the unit conversions are even a factor of 10! You can look that up in a table, and a 6-year-old can properly measure things. Booooring!
Now look at the Imperial/English/Standard/US/Florida system: how many hogshead in a cubic furlong? Nobody knows offhand, so you have to get creative. Is it a US standard colonial, also called a tobacco hogshead? Or is it the British hogshead? It may depend on the contents, like whether it’s brandy or sugar or fish (the species matters!). You can convert to firkins if you wish, but that’s optional. As for furlongs, it used to depend on the horse, but sadly they standardized it to 40 rods, because German feet were longer than English feet, probably due to the toes. Fortunately, some states in the US still disagree on definitions, so the length may depend on the state. Once you figure that out, you can easily calculate that using a English wine hogshead and an international furlong leads to about 34,136,818.7 hogshead in a cubic furlong. Explain to me how that’s not better than your silly metric system!
- Comment on Day 365 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing (One Year Anniversary!) 3 weeks ago:
Congratulations on 1 year! I don’t read every day, but I’m glad when I do. Quite a commitment! Thanks so much for your contribution!
- Comment on Get yourself a real man. 4 weeks ago:
The true Golden Path was the lizards we met along the way
- Comment on Cursed 5 weeks ago:
If there was a god, I’d imagine them designing the universe and giggling like an idiot when they made math.
- Comment on To enjoy life without any fear 1 month ago:
Plot twist: the cat put up the sign
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I had an old school friend I visited in Chicago, and her apartment had a locked door in her bedroom against the back wall, and her landlord had just said “it’s not used, just ignore it.” It didn’t even have a doorknob, so she had just ignored it for like 3 years. The building had been there for like 100 years.
Naturally, after some alcohol, I convinced her I could lockpick it, and we pushed her bed to the side and I spent about ten drunken minutes picking the deadbolt. We finally got it open, and discovered it was a straight-up small elevator! None of the lights or buttons worked, and we were worried about it falling, so we got out of there.
To this day, I’m not sure if it was an old building elevator for residents and her room had been a hallway, or if it was some kind of (very small) service elevator, or something for the ADA (handicapped requirements). But it was absolutely fascinating.
- Comment on There it is, that funny feeling. 2 months ago:
Apply Directly To The Forehead.
- Comment on Classic SMBC: Funding 3 months ago:
Newton’s blessings on everyone!
- Comment on 100% all natural hand-drawn comic 3 months ago:
Obviously AI slop! No one is able to spell flourine correctly twice!
- Comment on Renewable energy means we can stop setting money on fire, silly billy 3 months ago:
I think it’s because the camera angle is different, but he also does to me. Or else it’s some secret de-aging technique, which definitely uses a heat pump.
- Comment on Pronunciation is important 3 months ago:
Ahem… … … gif
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 4 months ago:
