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Das Boo posted:Is driving on the left side of the road for rapists? More for speakers of incomprehensible gibberish, which explains Australia.
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EmperorFritoBandito posted:More for speakers of incomprehensible gibberish, which explains Australia. so yeah still rapists
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Jun 27, 2014 05:26
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Maoist Pussy posted:Americans use the metric system for precise and/or scientific purposes, girlfriend.
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Jun 27, 2014 23:35
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Why can't the world just agree on using one universal 24-hr timezone. "Oh but it'll be daylight from 1400-0300 instead!" Stop bitching you'll get use to it in like four days.
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Jun 27, 2014 23:46
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metric is lame 
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Cyks posted:Why can't the world just agree on using one universal 24-hr timezone. I tried to think of a reason why it would be a bad idea but I'm blank. It would be cool if you left New York for LA and actually arrived 6 hours later.
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Jun 27, 2014 23:51
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whenever I get down about people hating America and our freedoms, I remember that we rule the world with an iron fist makes me feel better and slightly aroused
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VikingSkull posted:whenever I get down about people hating America and our freedoms, I remember that we rule the world with an iron fist As average citizens we are also ruled with an iron fist, but we get to buy ipads instead of making ipads. 
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Germstore posted:As average citizens we are also ruled with an iron fist, but we get to buy ipads instead of making ipads. we pay like 5 different countries to answer our phones
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Jun 28, 2014 00:15
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I'm angry about units
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Hobohemian posted:I tried to think of a reason why it would be a bad idea but I'm blank. It would be cool if you left New York for LA and actually arrived 6 hours later. Requires universal consensus from a group of people who can't even agree which imaginary deity told them all to kill each other.
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Jun 28, 2014 00:19
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Does it bother them that there is no way to decimalize smell yet? Are metric people mad there are not ten colors in the rainbow, or what? Does their arbitrary favorite number rule their lives entirely?
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Jun 28, 2014 01:58
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Ten isn't arbitrary, it's the basis for our entire numerical system and also the number of fingers I have.
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Jun 28, 2014 02:04
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Whiskey Sours posted:water boils at 100  Imperial honestly works better for the average day-to-day poo poo that people do. It could probably be described as a base-4 system more accurately than a base 12, given that just about all the major things that matter are multiples of 4. 12 inches in a foot, divisible by 2,3,4,6. 16 ounces to a pound, divisible by 2,4,8, all of which tend to be measurements that are commonly used. As far as temperature goes, while Fahrenheit is pretty silly and arbitrary, it does work well for expressing temperature at a human level. Between freezing and 72F (generally considered standard room temperature) you have 40 degrees, whereas from freezing to room temperature in celsius is only 22 degrees, half the flexibility of Fahrenheit. Two thirds of the 0-100 C range are basically useless as far as everyday life goes, because it's all "really loving hot" to "lethal". Sure, water boils at an arbitrary 212 F, but the average person doesn't give a gently caress, the only time they deal with that range of temperature is when they put a pot of water on the stove and turn the knobs to high, and even then its just boiling, no one gives a poo poo about the specific temp. Basically one is built for precision and standardization, the other is built to be used for everyday situations by the common person. EDIT: Also fractions are really useful and you must be retarded to not understand how they work.
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Jun 28, 2014 02:14
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Whiskey Sours posted:Ten isn't arbitrary, it's the basis for our entire numerical system and also the number of fingers I have. 12 would be a better base system because it is divisible by 2 and 3 whereas 10 is divisible by 2 and 5, so true metric revolutionaries support the transition to a base 12 system without reservation. throw off the shackles of the old world
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Jun 28, 2014 02:27
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We increasingly are living in a digital world. If you're going to change bases go to base 16. Plus 10^6 ~= 16^5 so that's an easy way forward.
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Jun 28, 2014 02:31
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base 12 = humanitarian philosophers who love purity, aesthetics and mathematics base 16 = robotic technocrats who want to immanentize the singularity base 10 = reactionaries, indefensible
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Jun 28, 2014 02:43
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100 f was supposed to be body temp too they just hosed up the measurement
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Kyrie eleison posted:base 12 = humanitarian philosophers who love purity, aesthetics and mathematics base 60? The Babylonians were on to something. We still use it for time, and it's the only scale the whole world agrees on.
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Jun 28, 2014 02:46
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if you dont like the imperial system gently caress you also we will bomb you and be the world's most powerful 3rd world country 
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Jun 28, 2014 02:48
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Why would you wanna measure your dick in inches vs cm? Who -wouldn't- want to say, 'I have a 15 (cm) dick, baby', vs like 6 inches.
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Jun 28, 2014 02:55
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Black Pants posted:Why would you wanna measure your dick in inches vs cm? Because when you round up it makes your dick seem bigger.
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Jun 28, 2014 02:56
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cm are too small. They are nothing. 15 of nothing is still nothing. Proud American cock must be measured in proud American inches.
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Jun 28, 2014 02:59
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FogHelmut posted:because we don't want any foreign rulers. it's called a rule not a "ruler" you dumb
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imperial roolz metric droolz *sends 5 years of development, $655m orbiter on 286-day mission only to burn it up in mars' atmosphere because i'm too stubborn and stupid to use a system of measurements that isn't complete poo poo*
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Vernii posted:half the flexibility of Fahrenheit. what the gently caress is this poo poo
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Jun 28, 2014 05:33
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hey don't tell anybody but a lot of countries that officially use the metric system are full of people who use imperial units when doing common things bc they are units based on the common things they are doing and not making the numbers look pretty in your thesis oaahhhhh
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The March Hare posted:hey don't tell anybody but a lot of countries that officially use the metric system are full of people who use imperial units when doing common things bc they are units based on the common things they are doing and not making the numbers look pretty in your thesis oaahhhhh actually it's because of old people who learned imperial & don't want to let go
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Jun 28, 2014 05:42
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100's cigarettes are exactly 100mm long, aka 10 centimeters, aka 1 decimeter. I quit smoking but that's still the only metric unit I can easily visualize.
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SplitSoul posted:imperial roolz metric droolz lmao imagine being the engineer who hosed that one up
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Exclamation Marx posted:actually it's because of old people who learned imperial & don't want to let go also young people
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THS posted:lmao imagine being the engineer who hosed that one up Imagine being the guy who was responsible for him. (nothing probably happened to that guy other than getting yelled at)
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Jun 28, 2014 05:47
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who speak english natively
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Morkyz posted:Because when you round up it makes your dick seem bigger. ...This is wrong. Your penis is supposed to get longer, more girthy, and harder.
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Jun 28, 2014 07:10
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If you think the world is hosed up now, just be glad that the dozens of different alphabet systems in the world don't all use their own symbols for numbers.
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Jun 28, 2014 07:17
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RevSyd posted:100's cigarettes are exactly 100mm long, aka 10 centimeters, aka 1 decimeter. I can easily visualize a gram, but I can also easily visualize 1/8 of an ounce.
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Jun 28, 2014 10:42
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Yeah OP, but steam sales are measured in metacritic.
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reagan posted:ahem excuse me it is the english system of measurements. pretty clear who should get the blame ehre just make sure to use the right name when referring to the american system for checking things and like. don't call it the english system down here in georgia or the resulting lynch mob will leave you rotting in the hot sun metric is on everything nowadays and that gets people furious enough as is
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