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Maybe we see enough vitriol towards Windows and Mac users, people daring to praise anything that isn't FOSS, or saying something nice about someone who isn't a liberal, that even when we are relieved when a certain person is no longer living we don't want to read dozens or hundreds of me-too posts full of vitriol. There's the upvote button for that. I'm glad he's gone but making a separate comment to essentially echo groupthink is (somewhat) a waste of time and effort. In some ways Lemmy is no better than Reddit.

I know that saying anything that goes against Lemmy groupthink and hatefeasts is guaranteed to get a down vote, but I don't feel the need to make nasty comments so that I fit in around here.

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    Anything but metric in c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
    Anything but metric in c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
    [–] -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    It's not meant to be real accurate. It's meant to "do for now". There's a reason that the metric system took so long to come into existence. We have the advantage of hindsight. Any society starting over might not have access to that experience.

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    • Anything but metric in c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
    Anything but metric in c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
    [–] -3 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    For example, I can tell someone that the length between their knuckles of their index finger is about an inch or that a foot is literally based on the length of the human foot without having to have a ruler present. The metric system has no easy references. The history of the Imperial system is messy but it works (mostly) as a way to do rough measurements until the accuracy needed for the metric system is present. After that, the metric system makes conversions really easy, including getting rid of lot of units, and makes more sense.

    Once you have the needed accuracy, the Imperial system is inferior to the metric system and should be phased out.

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    • Anything but metric in c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
    [+] -8 points 2 months ago (14 children)

    In an apocalypse, the Imperial system of measurement is easier to reestablish than the metric system though that should be used with an eye to switching to metric. The USA uses both and it would be nice if things (like soda) didn't have to list two measurements or having to ask a doctor to convert from metric to Imperial.

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    The body of this post is quite humorous (lemmy.world)
    submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/humor@lemmy.world
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    Too bad talking heads don't embody the spirit of seeing eye to eye and hearing what people have to say, no matter the footing that they are on. They should grow a spine and put their foot down and reach out and give people a hand and not toe the line. The nerve. Figures. So stiff-necked. They keep shooting from the lip, though that is better than shooting from the hip. There's a knee for decent news and we shouldn't have to shoulder the load of verifying everything when getting a leg up on things. Just getting to the heart of the matter. No, it's not a knee jerk reaction and I am not trying to mouth off and get anyone's hair in a dander. No need to elbow me in the ribs, though I suspect tongues will be wagging and someone will try to strong arm me into taking the meat out of the body of this post. Hopefully I have your ear in this matter. Hats off to everyone who gets what is humorous in this. Time to head out and go roll some bones. A thumbs up to those able to stand on their own two feet. This is nothing to lose your head over.

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    The body of this post is quite humorous (lemmy.world)
     

    Too bad talking heads don't embody the spirit of seeing eye to eye and hearing what people have to say, no matter the footing that they are on. They should grow a spine and put their foot down and reach out and give people a hand and not toe the line. The nerve. Figures. So stiff-necked. They keep shooting from the lip, though that is better than shooting from the hip. There's a knee for decent news and we shouldn't have to shoulder the load of verifying everything when getting a leg up on things. Just getting to the heart of the matter. No, it's not a knee jerk reaction and I am not trying to mouth off and get anyone's hair in a dander. No need to elbow me in the ribs, though I suspect tongues will be wagging and someone will try to strong arm me into taking the meat out of the body of this post. Hopefully I have your ear in this matter. Hats off to everyone who gets what is humorous in this. Time to head out and go roll some bones. A thumbs up to those able to stand on their own two feet.

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