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   Invictus Filius Regis Aeterni (invictus@noauthority.social)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 19:32:31 JST Invictus Filius Regis Aeterni

   Europeans won't defend anything except the metric system.

   You can talk about anything, but don't talk about the metric system.

   That is the ONE thing they will defend until the death, more so than their heritage.

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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 19:32:30 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • Obi-Two al-Menashani
     The metric system is for the subjugated.
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     Obi-Two al-Menashani (zephyrotv@noauthority.social)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 19:32:31 JST Obi-Two al-Menashani

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     @Invictus I was just talking about this with a coworker yesterday. We had to convert units on a spec from gallons to liters for a customer in Europe. Everyone else is fine with gallons, but god forbid if you send someone in France something that isn’t in liters, you’d think the Germans were invading.

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     ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ (kingofwhiteamerica@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 19:57:20 JST ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️

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     • Sir Sean 🇺🇸 of Slovakia [SK]

     @SirSeanofSlovakia @Invictus Metric isn’t particularly good for objects of rotation; Base10 hasn’t got any real relationship to round curvy things, so it’s a really arbitrary imposition in that domain. If the number base were some power of 2, however, it’d be a different story.

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     Sir Sean 🇺🇸 of Slovakia [SK] (sirseanofslovakia@noauthority.social)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 19:57:21 JST Sir Sean 🇺🇸 of Slovakia [SK]

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     @Invictus as an ex-pat who has lived in Europe for the last 18 years I can totally understand their passion for Commie Calculations over Freedom Numbers.

     Metric is easy and makes sense.