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Germstore posted:In liquor stores it's all metric. 750ml and 1.75L. You mean a fifth and a handle? Nobody says "give me 750 ml of scotch"
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Jan 15, 2016 02:16
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or a two-six/mickey/forty/sixty-pounder?
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Jan 15, 2016 02:19
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Mange Mite posted:You mean a fifth and a handle? I just say 'seven fifty,' but I may just be a square. Either way, still metric.
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Jan 15, 2016 02:19
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Anyone else ever see meth sold in grains rather than fractions of grams, or was that just a thing here? I knew a guy who sold quarters weighed at .20 grams based on this weird tradition, and was mostly using it as an excuse to short his customers.
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Jan 15, 2016 02:20
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Lunar time is imperial, solar time is metric.
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Jan 15, 2016 03:04
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Time is both metric and imperial. It's imperial for measures of seconds/minutes/hours+ but sub-second measurements are metric. SHISHKABOB posted:The SI second is defined this way, but the second on a clock is defined by dividing the day into 24 hours. In order to correct this discrepancy, since a rotation of the earth is not precisely 24 hours, we have leap years. And I think like every hundred or so years we have two leap days. And you'd have even more additional leap days at increasingly longer intervals because of the not-niceness of the value of the period of earths rotation. And then you'd have to account for the slowing of earths rotation over the course of tens of thousands and millions of years. These days we use the Gregorian calendar (with occasional leap seconds) where a year is 365.2425 days and was introduced in 1582, which is a refinement of the Julian calendar (which was commissioned by Julius Caesar) which set a year as 365.25 days and was introduced in 46 BC. Before that point an annual calendar didn't match the number of days in a year which would have led to crazy poo poo like the big important Roman agricultural festivals falling in the wrong season so the Romans occasionally split February in half and added a leap month of varying lengths so that the civil year would match the solar year. The length of the leap month was determined by an elected official called the Pontifex Maximus but they occasionally made the decision based on political reasoning rather than mathematical/astronomical calculations. Calendars were fuckin' weird back in the day.
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Jan 15, 2016 04:44
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Germstore posted:Pretty weird how Beer is sold in Imperial, but liquor and wine is sold in metric. Is time more like beer or liquor? I'm gonna go with beer. Time is like beer, and therefore Imperial. Been buying beer in 10 packs of 330ml for a while now so it's changing.
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Jan 15, 2016 06:52
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Time is both metric and imperial. It's imperial for measures of seconds/minutes/hours+ but sub-second measurements are metric. I confused the hell out of myself writing that post because I was thinking for some reason that it was the difference in length between sidereal and calendar days that caused the need for leap years. I kept doing the math and it never worked out.
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Jan 15, 2016 07:13
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Mange Mite posted:the original design for farenheit had 0 as freezing and 100 as body temperature. they just hosed up the measurements I remember reading somewhere that Fahrenheit based his scale on the coldest and hottest days he experienced in his town in the year he developed the scale. Probably apocryphal. Microwaves Mom posted:Someone show me a metric clock. When I was in middle school, my science teacher made us develop a new measuring system. Most kids developed a system for measuring length, usually based on shoes, pencils, etc. A few developed systems for measuring mass. I developed a time unit. It was called the STU (Standard Time Unit) each of which was a bit less than 15 minutes. There were 100 in a day, and I used the standard metric prefixes for larger and smaller bits of time. I even created conversations about how people would use the lingo, like "I'll be there in in a mili" and "Hey, wait a cent!" It was lame, but I got an A.
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Jan 15, 2016 07:33
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvO1BS-780g lousy smarch weather gary oldmans diary fucked around with this message at 07:41 on Jan 15, 2016 |
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Jan 15, 2016 07:37
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Time being either 12h/24h is pretty similar to metric/imperial. Only NA and a few other places use 12h time, the rest of the world gets to celebrate thirteen o'clock.
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Jan 15, 2016 08:14
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Time is an arrow, Op.
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Jan 15, 2016 08:33
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Angela Christine posted:Time is an arrow, Op. I believe you will find it is actually a flat circle
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Jan 15, 2016 08:47
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Mange Mite posted:the original design for farenheit had 0 as freezing and 100 as body temperature. they just hosed up the measurements Um excuse me that is not correct, body temperature in Fahrenheit was 96° 
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Jan 15, 2016 08:56
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p sure OP fell wanking to the floor when he made this thread
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Jan 15, 2016 10:50
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My chair caught me
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Jan 15, 2016 12:35
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Woden posted:Been buying beer in 10 packs of 330ml for a while now so it's changing. It's just an excuse to stiff you on an ounce of beer. Search your heart; you know it to be true.
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Jan 15, 2016 13:29
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genesplicer posted:I remember reading somewhere that Fahrenheit based his scale on the coldest and hottest days he experienced in his town in the year he developed the scale. Probably apocryphal. Swatch did this with the beat. Also the French OXBALLS DOT COM fucked around with this message at 13:45 on Jan 15, 2016 |
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Jan 15, 2016 13:40
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Because metric time uses completely different time intervals, each of them has an invented name which can cause some confusion at first, but once you get used to it metric time is a very logical system and has many advantages over standard time. The most common of these units you will probably come across is the diddy, also known as the metric hour. A diddy lasts for 1/10th of a day. As you can see, op, there are ten diddies in a day, as they say
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Jan 15, 2016 14:19
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you couldn't get white onions, on account of the war-
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Jan 15, 2016 14:24
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time does not belong to any system of measurement time is properly ordinal, proceeding from first to second to third or vice versa; transformable but unimpeachable, intensive differences exist between each ordinal value time is only metrized when it extrudes space as its extensional aspect and then portrays itself as a dimension of space
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Jan 15, 2016 15:06
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genesplicer posted:I remember reading somewhere that Fahrenheit based his scale on the coldest and hottest days he experienced in his town in the year he developed the scale. Probably apocryphal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit#History
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Jan 15, 2016 15:10
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It was called "Indigo Prophecy" when they converted it to US units.
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Jan 15, 2016 15:14
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Germstore posted:The freezing point of saturated salt water and pure water are equally arbitrary. yeah but isn't it something like 1 calorie of energy is enough to raise 1 cubic ml of pure water by 1 degree celsius? and 1 cubic ml of pure water is 1 cubic mm and weighs 1mg i thought everything in metric is kinda linked to it made sense to use celsius
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Jan 15, 2016 15:17
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Fahrenheit is based on sloppy science, but it maps pretty well to, "on a scale from 0 to 100 how hot are you?" People sperging about how it has a different 0 point than C are dummies because the only zero point that isn't arbitrary is 0K.Quote-Unquote posted:yeah but isn't it something like 1 calorie of energy is enough to raise 1 cubic ml of pure water by 1 degree celsius? and 1 cubic ml of pure water is 1 cubic mm and weighs 1mg The magnitude of a C is linked to other metric units, but the zero point isn't, and that's what the dude complaining about 0F being below freezing was sperging about.
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Jan 15, 2016 15:18
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in that respect 0k is still arbitrary bc the universal null energy point is arbitrary from a transuniversal pov unless "relation to triple point of VSMOW" is ok to move forward
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Jan 15, 2016 15:24
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Germstore posted:The magnitude of a C is linked to other metric units, but the zero point isn't, and that's what the dude complaining about 0F being below freezing was sperging about. yeah but if you've decided to use water as the basis for all your other measurements in the metric system, it kinda makes sense to use transition points between the states of ice/water/vapour as the low/high end of your scale (yes i know these aren't necessarily 0 and 100 depending on pressure etc but it's a reasonable enough approximation for most situations). what else would you use?
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Jan 15, 2016 15:28
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Let me just say, as somebody who uses fluid dynamics in his job ever day, the SI is extremely useful and good and imperial units are not.
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Jan 15, 2016 16:17
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It's seventeen hundred somewhere
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Jan 15, 2016 16:38
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Germstore posted:It's just an excuse to stiff you on an ounce of beer. Search your heart; you know it to be true. civilized countries sell beer by the half-liter
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Jan 15, 2016 16:47
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The_Franz posted:civilized countries sell beer by the half-liter That's a popular size in the US as well, but not as popular as a 12 oz. And if it's from a tap you're either getting 12 ounces or a pint.
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