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The replies are hilarious michael-laugh, so many blue checks saying “abandon big tech!” while they pay for Twitter from the richest fascist in the world.

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      IMO it should mark imperial in red as totally incorrect.

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        Fabricated whole cloth by the French elites to satisfy their inability to perform simple arithmetic - good and proper!

        Formed to be easy to use by centuries of laborers performing their work, beloved by all - verboten!

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          Formed to be easy to use by centuries of laborers performing their work, beloved by all - verboten!

          That must be why customary measurements are consistent across all cultures, since they are defined by use- hang on, I’m getting a call from the foot:

          It varied in length from country to country, from city to city, and sometimes from trade to trade. Its length was usually between 250 mm and 335 mm and was generally, but not always, subdivided into 12 inches or 16 digits.

          Boy I’m glad we use natural and not arbitrarily defined measurements!

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            Criticizing the metric system is not the same as criticizing standardization. Plenty of placed standardized their measurements before the metric system came along and replaced the original lengths of measure (that were based on useful lengths to work in, as determined by artisans through thousands of years of trial and error) with new ones (that were based on universal constants that were selected by an aristocrat to look nice on paper).

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              I’m so glad we use a system based on Big Clive from Camden’s shoe size on a gouty Tuesday in 1754 rather than a measure utterly unrelated to my life, like the speed of the thing I use to see literally everything I interact with.

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                Do you regularly experience time dilation? If not, then I suspect that the average size of a person’s foot is more intuitive to you than the speed of light.

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                Damn it must be so cool to use light and naturally understand its speed over distances similar to parts of your anatomy.

                I struggle to comprehend the speed of light as a measure of distance over anything less than about 300 miles. You must just be built different.

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                  Honestly I struggle to think of light traveling any distance shorter than from the sun to here, which I know is like 5 mins. I couldn’t possibly begin to tell you how far it travels in a second, or a tenth of a second, or whatever.

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              (that were based on useful lengths to work in, as determined by artisans through thousands of years of trial and error)

              Source. Also fuck you this is a stupid statement. Why in the goddamn fuck would a variable unit with multiple “standardisations” almost exclusively based on the whims of contemporary rulers have been determined by artisans, and some specific length that was useful to them? If they’re so specifically useful lengths and divisions to work with why are they variably divided into 9, 12, or 16 parts depending on where you are in the world and history, and why does the specifically useful length vary across standardisations? If the standardised size is so valuable to artists then why did it change twice in 200 years because different English kings wanted credit for it? You think their artisan friends were begging them to make the foot a little shorter?

              that were based on universal constants that were selected by an aristocrat to look nice on paper

              Did you do any thinking at all before writing this? Can you not come up with a single possible reason why it might be advantageous to base measurements off an immutable aspects of the universe instead of "dave reckon’s this is a good length*? Is it really that hard to connect a desire for standardisation to something that actually is the same every time?

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                You seem to be operating under the assumption that the inch, foot, yard etc were pulled arbitrarily out of thin air by a king when he standardized the system. No, the system already existed, and it had been developed organically by working people for thousands of years. All the king did was come in and say “we’re going to use this specific version of the system for standard’s sake”, he didn’t make any meaningful changes to the lengths themselves.

                You put far too much emphasis on the so-called “immutable aspects of the universe” that metric is supposedly based on. At one point in time the meter was based on a metal rod that they kept in Paris, they only stopped using that because they found that it was slowly shrinking over time. There’s no reason that you couldn’t determine what fraction of a light-second that a yard is and then retroactively define it as that, and then claim that the imperial system is “based on immutable aspects of the universe”. It’s all arbitrary at the end of the day.

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          You, a soyjak: Nooooooo, we should base our measurements on the body parts of an inbred king.

          Them, another soyjak: Noooooo, we should base our measurements on what a bunch of out-of-touch scientists who never picked up a hammer thought was good.

          Me, a gigachad: kilofeet

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    Imagine being one of the wealthiest people on the planet but so desperate to feel oppressed that you do performative outrage over an app’s in-built editor giving you conversion notes for commonly used systems of measurement.

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    These blue checks saying they want to abandon big tech are in for a rude awakening when they realize people like me are more common in the open source community.

    Unless they want to create Parlor OS and expose their data and lack of opsec to trans hackers again. I’m all for that.

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    now scolds you

    Scolds? Manbaby overreacting as usual… I don’t see Clippy popping up on the screen and telling you you’re a moron for not using inclusive language.

    But now that I think about it, I wish it did that.

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      They should honestly be embarrassed when even porky is telling them that they need to brush up on their good manners.

      porky-happy: “Well gee Mr., you don’t have to be so mean all the time!”

      frothingfash: “BUT AH DUHN WANNA BE NICE! IT’S NOT KEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWL!”

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    Are you tired of using gay liberal software products like Microsoft Word? Do you want to stand up and fight for your right to free speech? Try God’s Word now and fight back against the woke agenda, where we are 100% certified to find you the right slurs to use for a Twitter argument

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    mfer is out here selling electric cars with batteries in kWh and getting people to launch rockets and he’s going to complain about the metric system. In before he demands his engineers build rockets in slugs per furlong or some nonsense like that.

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      Elon the rocket launch pad is unstable the infras-

      Lol we probably need more pylons am I right gamers

      Mr. Musk I’m serious the foundation won’t survive another test, you need to-

      YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS hehehe

      Elo- building is overwhelmed with explosive debris

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      These bazinga chuds like elon want a world where you can’t ignore The Algorithm so I understand not flagging that as a possibility for his hooting followers

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      If the self driving bazingamobiles can ignore stop signs, he should be able to ignore the Word suggestions.

      Edit: He probably wants auto-correct to insert slurs into everyone’s writing lol.

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    Normies can’t handle a basic, polite disagreement without them screeching that they were reminded that they’re assholes. I don’t get it, if they revel in being pure evil, and they so much as get told that they’re not very nice. Why do they take issue with being reminded of a quality they’re proud of?

    Sure, I don’t expect the average person to be much of a thinker, but still.

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      It’s because they also want to be liked. It’s not enough to be rich and “politically incorrect” because no one has respect for you. It’s why conservatives complain about not being able to find dates without lying because as soon as they stop lying, their true personality and views come out and women generally become repulsed.

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    I’m really glad elon’s solution to “big woke tech” seems to be just buying (twitter) or cloning (chatgpt) it, not directing people to open source or whatever because we do NOT need any more fucking chuds in the FOSS world. I feel like the tide has only really started to turn in the past 5 years