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   Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 21:59:35 JST Bread up, Bro
   this is what I want to impress upon people: the metric system didn't "catch on" it was the kind of lunatic thing that sociopaths had been getting off on doing to people since the french revolution - imposing rules just to make people conform to their wishes.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 22:03:00 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @dick yeah bro I have - I sat in front of a computer and it did those calcuations for me, this isn't the 1970s or something.
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     atma–jnani (dick@cawfee.club)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 22:03:01 JST atma–jnani

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     @sickburnbro shut up you do not do real labour metric is infinetly easier to do calculati0ons in your head and get over it fuck you inperial weebs
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     atma–jnani (dick@cawfee.club)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 22:03:01 JST atma–jnani

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     @sickburnbro you never had a real job you doing calculations all day fuck yoiu
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 22:06:25 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @dick and that's what actually make it click to me - sure you can have a program that says "how many butt-cubes of wood fit in our fleet of aging panel vans" - but it's all about systems of measurement which fit for humans so you can easily develop an intuition about the correctness of values.
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     ☢️ :hacker_s: :hacker_n: :hacker_e: :hacker_e: :hacker_d: :what_a_shame: (nitrodubs@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 22:09:07 JST ☢️ :hacker_s: :hacker_n: :hacker_e: :hacker_e: :hacker_d: :what_a_shame:

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     @sickburnbro Any utilities gained from decimalization are lost in not knowing the exact unit to use. Is it kg/m2, or bar, or some variation of newton meter? Is it too long for millimeters or too short for meters?
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 22:09:07 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @NitroDubs a mechanic I follow on youtube gave a really good example of this in regard to torque values.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 22:14:57 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • atma–jnani
     @dick yeah, that's what I'm saying. There is nothing inherently "easier" about base 10.
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     atma–jnani (dick@cawfee.club)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 22:14:58 JST atma–jnani

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     @sickburnbro thats why metric is easir to calculate everythign is base 10
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 22:42:29 JST 翠星石

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     @sickburnbro Every country uses Metric, as that's the only way to get reproachable measurements.
     
     A handful of countries like the USA, Canada and the UK use Metric with extra steps, in utter ignorance of all the waste and confusion that causes.
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     Desert_0asis (desert_0asis@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Mar-2025 01:18:48 JST Desert_0asis

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     @sickburnbro okay but I'm a big blockhead double gorilla nigger retard that only understands whole numbers in my head so I like metric for tools and numbers on the pooter. Even in cars I like diesels cause I don't use a fraction like AFR I only understand whole numbers like EGT.
     I'm really good at guessing percentages to make myself not look really stupid though. Lol
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Mar-2025 01:18:48 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • Desert_0asis
     @Desert_0asis my 5.5mm metric socket would like to say hello
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     BroDrillard (brodrillard@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Mar-2025 01:20:50 JST BroDrillard

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     Engineering calculations are simpler when your units e.g. distance and weight are all on the same base. People converging to this as technological civilization, statistics, etc took off and became widespread is not particularly surprising.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Mar-2025 01:20:50 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @BroDrillard except engineering is full of constants which are annoying. So you're either going to measure things exactly which always involves a lot of annoying extra figures, and math and double checking, or you're going to wing it.
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     Paultron-3030 (paultron@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Mar-2025 01:26:27 JST Paultron-3030

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     @BroDrillard @sickburnbro I'm for a base e numbering system
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Mar-2025 01:26:27 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • BroDrillard
     @Paultron @BroDrillard here is a thought - imagine your numbering system is base pi, and you measure everything as circles
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     BroDrillard (brodrillard@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Mar-2025 01:26:28 JST BroDrillard

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     That's exactly the point. There are fewer constants when everything is ten based. There are still some, because nature is what it is. But at least no more are added just to account for units being on different bases.
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     Desert_0asis (desert_0asis@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Mar-2025 01:31:18 JST Desert_0asis

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     @sickburnbro at least it's a decimal point and not a 18/74ths D:
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Mar-2025 01:31:18 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • Desert_0asis
     @Desert_0asis that's what I'm saying - you are joking about the 18/74th - but that's because you don't understand how imperial wrench sizing works ( and most people nowadays dont ! ). It's simple, and produces an even size difference between sockets - which is nice for when you have one that is starting to strip
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     Desert_0asis (desert_0asis@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Mar-2025 05:00:17 JST Desert_0asis

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     @sickburnbro that's true. I have used slightly smaller imperial sockets and hammered them on to stripped bolts as a step of the removal process. For both imperial and metric. And I have some bewildering sizes, like 25/32 or a 19/32 box end.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Mar-2025 05:00:17 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • Desert_0asis
     @Desert_0asis stepping up and down is easy in imperial, 1/2 -> 3/4, too big? 5/8 , still too big? 9/16 ( so just take bottom and +1 )