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  • I gotta say, you make some fair points.

    It’s a lot of memorization that I simply haven’t done and won’t ever have to do.

    The fraction reduction doesn’t help intuitive thought. If imperial operated on ‘significant digits’ and marked any set or document with a 64th always as 64ths, as in 16/64ths, I’d be more on board.

    We just need to replace out base 10 system of counting with base 12 and we’d get the best of both worlds!


  • Not only that, but your system, by virtue of being decimal, inherits all the shortcomings of our quite flawed numbering system. You can’t divide something by the second smallest prime number without breaking out repeating decimals.

    What’s more 0.203 cm or 0.291 cm? How about 3/8" or 19/64"?

    How far is 1/3 of a mile? 1/3 km is 333m. How about 1/9? 1/9 km is 111m How long is 10 x 5/16"? 10 x 3.1cm is 31cm

    Yeah, a foot breaks down easy in whole inches with many factors, but that’s about it







  • Phil_in_here@lemmy.catoComic Strips@lemmy.worldVoting
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    Theres a fire in my kitchen, but the fire extinguisher is only going to stop like 25% of the damage, so I’m committed to not stopping the fire.

    To be clear, I also don’t support the fire. But the fire extinguisher is:

    • filled with chemicals
    • makes a huge mess
    • costs money to recharge
    • may cause other damage from overspray

    So the best thing for me and my kitchen is to do nothing until they make a “fix my kitchen” spray.



  • Phil_in_here@lemmy.catoMemes@sopuli.xyzI'm intrigued
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    What is this, a Seinfeld episode?

    Jerry: “How’d the date go last night?”

    Elaine: “Ugh, total bust! We spent the whole time arguing about calamari!”

    Jerry: “Arguing about calamari? Like fried squid?”

    Elaine gestures there you go

    George: “It’s deep fried, what’s not to like?”

    Elaine: “He doesn’t even know what it is!”

    Jerry: “Never had calamari? What a sad life…”

    Kramer enters. Applause.

    Elaine: “Kramer. What’s calamari?”

    Kramer: “Disgusting. That’s what it is.”

    Jerry: “We’re not talking about the same calamari here.”

    Kramer: “It’s like chewing on rubber bands!”

    Jerry: “You’re not still going to Bosco’s are you?”

    Kramer: “I like Bosco.”

    George: “Didn’t the health board shut them down?”

    Kramer: “That’s how you know it’s authentic.”

    Elaine: “Can we get back to my problem, please?”

    Jerry: “I’ll tell you what, let’s all go out. Elaine, you can bring you can bring your boyfriend. I’ll show you all what calamari is supposed to taste like.”

    Elaine: “Well, do the have caviar?”

    Jerry: “Caviar? What am I made of money? Why caviar?”

    Elaine: “That’s what he thinks calamari is!”

    George: “Did you correct him?”

    Elaine: “Yes, George, I corrected him. I corrected him for 45 minutes!”

    Kramer: “Well why didn’t you just order the calamari and show him?”

    Elaine: “We were at a coffee shop.”

    Kramer: “Oh, they don’t serve calamari at coffee shops.”

    Elaine: “…I know. I didn’t expect to have to defend the reality of what calamari is when we made the date.”