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Nierenstein: "Funny" (Self-Described) (nierenstein@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 03:51:03 JST Nierenstein: "Funny" (Self-Described)

When we win we're going to pick Imperial or Metric and everyone everywhere will have to switch to that one immediately. I'm sure this will be a very popular policy.

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  CoQ_10 (coq_10@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 03:50:46 JST CoQ_10
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  @VaxxSabbath @ChristiJunior @AmonMaritza @BattleDwarfGimli @Jens_Rasmussen @The_Almighty_Kek @WilhelmIII @brigrammer @nierenstein Once again:
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  Växẍ Säbbäth (vaxxsabbath@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 03:50:47 JST Växẍ Säbbäth
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  @ChristiJunior @AmonMaritza @BattleDwarfGimli @Jens_Rasmussen @The_Almighty_Kek @WilhelmIII @brigrammer @nierenstein it is also fucking hilarious the extent to which the remainder of the world continues to seethe about it
  euroids: "WHY WON'T AMERIBURGERS JUST USE METRIC, REEEEEEE"
  burgers: "lol, lmao, stay mad queers"
  
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  Christi Junior (christijunior@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 03:50:48 JST Christi Junior
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  @Jens_Rasmussen @AmonMaritza @BattleDwarfGimli @The_Almighty_Kek @WilhelmIII @brigrammer @nierenstein It's fucking crazy the lengths to which Americans will go to defend their retarded units of measurements.
  
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  brigrammer (brigrammer@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 03:50:49 JST brigrammer
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  @The_Almighty_Kek @BattleDwarfGimli @AmonMaritza @Jens_Rasmussen @WilhelmIII @nierenstein > the only argument I've heard against the metric system
  
  Metric temperatures work good for chemistry and bad for describing weather, decimalized units work well for chemistry and bad for carpentry and baking, metric weights are crap for everyday items as they are too far apart to be used without decimals, metric lengths have a similar problem of a meter being too long for general use and centimeters too small.
  
  They work great for everything that requires precision, but for everyday general measures they all suck.
  
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  Jens_Rasmussen (jens_rasmussen@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 03:50:49 JST Jens_Rasmussen
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  >but for everyday general measures they all suck
  They work fine.
  >Temperature
  0 is cold, 10 is chilly, 20 is comfortable, 30 is hot, 40 is very hot.
  >Carpentry
  Works fine. No idea what you are talking about.
  >weights for everyday items
  Work excellently. Nothing wrong with 500g of this, 1kg of that and 80g of a third thing.
  >Meter too long, centimeter too short
  Are you afraid of numbers? Is anything greater than 10 hard for you to comprehend?
  
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  BattleDwarfGimli (battledwarfgimli@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 03:50:50 JST BattleDwarfGimli
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  "FUCK INCHES" --- apparently, in your case it's "FUCK INCH", but yeah. Metric is Eurofag stuff.
  
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  The Almighty Kek (the_almighty_kek@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 03:50:50 JST The Almighty Kek
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  "eurofag stuff" is literally the only argument I've heard against the metric system, because everybody knows it's the best
  
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  The Almighty Kek (the_almighty_kek@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 03:50:51 JST The Almighty Kek
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  I DON'T MEASURE MY COCK because it's depressing, BUT FUCK INCHES THEY'RE STUPID
  
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  The Almighty Kek (the_almighty_kek@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 03:50:52 JST The Almighty Kek
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  Pretty much the whole world makes shit metric. We're the only ones refusing to do it bc muh freedom fries or whatever shit
  
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  BattleDwarfGimli (battledwarfgimli@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 03:50:52 JST BattleDwarfGimli
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  Fuck metric, you fucking fuck. INCHES.
  
  NOBODY measures his cock in "centimeters" except Eurofags.
  
  INCHES.
  
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  WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 03:50:53 JST WilhelmIII
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  The metric system is for people that think about things.
  
  Imperial is for people that actually have to go make them.
  
  Look up how the French wanted to put time on the decimal system after the revolution.
  
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  Jens_Rasmussen (jens_rasmussen@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 03:50:53 JST Jens_Rasmussen
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  Plenty of things have been made in metric, what are you talking about?
  
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  Jens_Rasmussen (jens_rasmussen@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 03:50:54 JST Jens_Rasmussen
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  I don't see the problem, if you are making something small then you just measure the accuracy in milli, micro or nano, and you won't have that big of a problem.
  
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  Jens_Rasmussen (jens_rasmussen@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 03:50:55 JST Jens_Rasmussen
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  Then it is no longer "you cutting a board", it is a machine in which you can just punch in more 3's.
  
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  WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 03:50:55 JST WilhelmIII
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  "Punch in"
  
  Um, no.
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  WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 03:50:56 JST WilhelmIII
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  My milling machine disagrees with you.
  
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  WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 03:50:57 JST WilhelmIII
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  You can write it, but good luck cutting a board like that.
  
  Imperial units are *practical*
  
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  Jens_Rasmussen (jens_rasmussen@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 03:50:57 JST Jens_Rasmussen
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  Like I said, when it comes to human tasks there is no need for anything more accurate than 0.33
  
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  WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 03:50:58 JST WilhelmIII
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  The point remains. In Imperial I CAN accurately measure a third of a foot or a yard. Because the base 12 allows for that and the base 10 does not.
  
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  Jens_Rasmussen (jens_rasmussen@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 03:50:58 JST Jens_Rasmussen
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  The point loses relevancy though. And if I really want to be able to write it perfectly accurately, I can just write "1⁄3m"
  
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  WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 03:50:59 JST WilhelmIII
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  But that's not accurate.
  
  A third of a meter is not 33.3cm.
  
  it's 33.333333333333333333333333333333333
  
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  Jens_Rasmussen (jens_rasmussen@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 03:50:59 JST Jens_Rasmussen
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  You can add as many 3's as you need for the task you are doing, but at some point it is no longer a task for human hands, which is long before the amount that you specified.
  
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  Jens_Rasmussen (jens_rasmussen@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 03:51:00 JST Jens_Rasmussen
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  >if you ever have to measure a third of a meter, good luck
  33.3cm? What's the problem?
  
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  AmonMaritza (amonmaritza@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 03:51:01 JST AmonMaritza
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  feet are feet (the king’s foot)
  
  a yard is the king’s stride
  
  these things are close to my heart (I like feet)
  
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  The Almighty Kek (the_almighty_kek@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 03:51:01 JST The Almighty Kek
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  None of this relates to my life at all, but the number 10 does.
  
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  WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 03:51:01 JST WilhelmIII
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  While the metric units’ association with physical constants makes them accurate, it makes them less practical for common use. The units of cups and tablespoons developed naturally because these objects were right there in the kitchen. The gram, on the other hand, was not developed with cooking and baking in mind, so it is much smaller than it needs to be. For the same reason, the foot and the ounce are also much more user-friendly than their metric counterparts. Also, because they have a base of ten, metric units cannot be divided into as many even fractions as imperial units. A meter can only be evenly divided into 2 or 5, while a foot can be divided into 2, 3, 4, or 6.
  
  So if you ever have to measure a third of a meter, good luck.
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  Jens_Rasmussen (jens_rasmussen@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 03:51:02 JST Jens_Rasmussen
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  Sure it will be popular. If you pick metric.
  
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  AmonMaritza (amonmaritza@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 03:51:02 JST AmonMaritza
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  Metric has no relationship to our lives.
  
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  Jens_Rasmussen (jens_rasmussen@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 03:51:02 JST Jens_Rasmussen
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  Neither does Imperial.
  
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  Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 03:52:29 JST Bread up, Bro
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  @CoQ_10 @VaxxSabbath @ChristiJunior @AmonMaritza @BattleDwarfGimli @Jens_Rasmussen @The_Almighty_Kek @WilhelmIII @brigrammer @nierenstein systems should be built to help humans. All of the metric system is designed to worship science by forcing people to adapt to some measurement which is distilled by science.
  
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  Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 03:54:05 JST Bread up, Bro
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  @WilhelmIII @ChristiJunior @AmonMaritza @BattleDwarfGimli @Jens_Rasmussen @The_Almighty_Kek @CoQ_10 @VaxxSabbath @brigrammer @nierenstein yes. and understanding that is what gets you this insight. They wanted to change the week, the hours of the day, EVERYTHING.
  
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  WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 03:54:06 JST WilhelmIII
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  This was the essence of ALL the changes made by the French during their revolution.
  
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  Special Guest Star (s2208@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 04:02:08 JST Special Guest Star
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  They built them with Imperial
  
  They didn’t build them with Eurofagtric
  
  Furthermore we went to the MOON in Imperial
  
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  WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 04:02:09 JST WilhelmIII
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  A B-Fucking-52 and a X-Fucking-15
  
  Built with Imperial measurements.
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  The Almighty Kek (the_almighty_kek@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 04:02:09 JST The Almighty Kek
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  You could build the exact same things with metric tho
  
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  The Almighty Kek (the_almighty_kek@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 04:33:22 JST The Almighty Kek
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  I'm not pushing to switch, I'm just stirring the shit with my opinion that it's superior to imperial.
  
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  Special Guest Star (s2208@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 04:33:22 JST Special Guest Star
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  it’s superior to imperial for scientific purposes. imperial is a human scaled system and therefore better for everyday life.
  
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  The Almighty Kek (the_almighty_kek@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 04:33:23 JST The Almighty Kek
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  You could have measured that equipment in ham sandwiches and still got to the moon. It's just a units system.
  
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  WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 04:33:23 JST WilhelmIII
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  > It's just a units system.
  
  So is metric.
  
  And there is no good reason to switch.
  
  Yet some people keep pushing for it.
  
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  The Almighty Kek (the_almighty_kek@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 04:39:09 JST The Almighty Kek
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  The idea of the prefix system is that you can scale your units to whatever suits the application. You want to increase your unit size? Move the decimal point over. It's simple. I can measure something in decimeters if centimeters are too small but meters are too big.
  
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  Special Guest Star (s2208@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 04:39:09 JST Special Guest Star
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  very good for scientific applications but it doesn’t map well to human applications
  
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  WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 04:39:10 JST WilhelmIII
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  > it's superior to imperial.
  
  For certain applications. For others, not so much.
  
  Pushing a one-size-fits-all solution in this world is change for the sake of change.
  
  Always a bad idea.
  
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  KennyWhitePowers :White_powers: (kennywhitepowers@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 04:42:51 JST KennyWhitePowers :White_powers:
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  Big measurement would love for us to comply. Not on their life
  
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  AlabasterBrick ?‍☠️ (alabasterbrick@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 05:06:01 JST AlabasterBrick ?‍☠️
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  >it looks good on paper
  Lol, lmao
  
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  WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 05:06:02 JST WilhelmIII
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  I understand that you don't understand.
  
  I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.
  
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  The Almighty Kek (the_almighty_kek@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 05:06:02 JST The Almighty Kek
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  No it's that people think imperial units somehow make everything "better for everyday life", whereas I don't see where I would be inconvenienced if I were to make a full switch to metric units, be it length, mass, volume, whatever. :kek_shrug:
  
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  The Almighty Kek (the_almighty_kek@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 05:06:03 JST The Almighty Kek
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  I really don't understand that argument
  
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  The Almighty Kek (the_almighty_kek@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 05:19:55 JST The Almighty Kek
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  And works well in practice :kek_3:
  
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  AlabasterBrick ?‍☠️ (alabasterbrick@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 05:19:55 JST AlabasterBrick ?‍☠️
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  If I had a nickel for everytime a construction job was held up by an engineering miscalculation I would be sloppy rich.
  
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