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   Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 05-Sep-2025 07:06:05 JST Bread up, Bro
   this is basically making science your god, and science is a very cruel and jealous god
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 05-Sep-2025 07:06:56 JST Bread up, Bro

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     this is why I poke at the metric system. People who viciously attack for a poorly thought out decimalizing system deserver what they get.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 05-Sep-2025 07:07:41 JST Bread up, Bro

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     any system unable to compactly represent 1/3 has serious issues.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 05-Sep-2025 07:45:25 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • nobullyplz :antibully:
     @nobullyplz what's interesting is that most people nowadays don't understand circular measurements - and I think all the decimanlization is to blame.
     
     Remember, most european countries didn't move over to metric for everything until after WW2, iirc.
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     nobullyplz :antibully: (nobullyplz@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 05-Sep-2025 07:45:26 JST nobullyplz :antibully:

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     @sickburnbro Been going wrong since we got rid of base 60 counting.... :akkoWeary:
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 05-Sep-2025 07:52:57 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @PodunkPotato @nobullyplz the problem is that it sounds like it makes things clean by hiding a conversion to circular measurements underneath.
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     PodunkPotato (podunkpotato@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 05-Sep-2025 07:52:58 JST PodunkPotato

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     • nobullyplz :antibully:
     You don't like gradians?
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     nobullyplz :antibully: (nobullyplz@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 05-Sep-2025 07:55:40 JST nobullyplz :antibully:

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     @sickburnbro Grandmama was still using some madeup grain-measuring bucket-thing measurement in the old country when she was young. "Get me two whatchacallits of flour" (can't remember the name) :peepoShrug:
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 05-Sep-2025 07:55:40 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • nobullyplz :antibully:
     @nobullyplz I love stuff like bushels and pecks. It's a measurement which is both suited for what it is measuring, and lets you know *what* is being measured - because a volume of a liquid and a volume of strawberries are actually still quite different.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 05-Sep-2025 08:07:28 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • radix023
     @radix023 real men use what is appropriate. If you are in space, use Kelvin or Rankine
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     radix023 (radix023@noauthority.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Sep-2025 08:07:29 JST radix023

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     real men use Kelvin