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   pettanko (pettanko@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 04:26:53 JST pettanko
   bro just use the metric system it's so simp-
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     pettanko (pettanko@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 04:26:47 JST pettanko

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     @apropos Well you can but then you end up with units like the Farad where most of the time you're actually using microfarads or picofarads because one farad of capacitance is actually a whole lot.
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     pettanko (pettanko@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 04:26:51 JST pettanko

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     @apropos Funnily enough before 2019 the kilogram was defined as whatever this thing right here weighs.
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     of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 04:26:51 JST of nothing

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     @pettanko of course. You couldn't come up with the math without a reference target for the math. The problem the math is solving is "what if the sun blinks and destroys our entire civilization and we lose the reference weight?" and it's not actually a solution for that because the math will also be lost.
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     of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 04:26:52 JST of nothing

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     @pettanko what's really funny is that this nonsense makes people think better of SI units. Yeah, it's not "the unit shall be whatever this thing right here weighs", that would be dumb and primitive. We're an advanced people who can reverse-engineer "however much this thing right here weighs" and build a bunch of arbitrary math that turns some universal constants into that number.