The replies are hilarious 
, so many blue checks saying "abandon big tech!" while they pay for Twitter from the richest fascist in the world.
Wokeism has really gone too far when when microsoft is pushing the metric system
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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!
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!
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).
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.
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.
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.
A second is around the equator about seven and a half times. A tenth of a second is three quarters of the equator. The moon is about one and a quarter seconds away from earth, you know, if you ever wanna use it for something.
E: this is all half remembered from radio operation and radio astronomy. I could be wrong.
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.
(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?
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.
Ah, not quite - I'm operating on the assumption that the people working for thousands of years arbitrarily pulled them from thin air. Because, you know... That's literally how all definitions of measurement work. Try the cubit, somewhere between a foot and a half and 4 feet - what was so useful to people about those distances? At best ones like the foot and the chi came from using your forearm as a standard length, but once they're standardised the choice of whose forearm to use is completely arbitrary. Russian units were based on different ways of stretching your body parts - stuff like a hand span or arm span. Choosing what to use as a measurement is completely arbitrary, which then is standardised over time by people using the same thing as a measurement and it eventually getting defined as a single distance. The kings arbitrary choices were just building on the arbitrary choices of the past. There wasn't anything less arbitrary about the choice because lots of people used it.
Yes, they discovered the law as they understood it was mistaken, and so found more accurate ways to define it, which is why we're now using a fraction of a light second. If we find more precise definitions in future we'll define it by them.
Lastly, they already did that. The imperial and us customary measurement systems are both defined by metric distances now, specifically because metric distances, equally arbitrarily chosen as they are, shouldn't change. And if they do, we'll find something that doesn't.
Why don’t you derive a unit of force from the decay of a cesium atom over it?
As an American machinist, there is nothing I hate more than multiplying or dividing numbers by ten.
Don’t worry, there’s a chart in the back of machinery’s handbook.
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
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.
I would be willing to bet metric is the most widely used system of measurement lol what a fucking dork
It's literally only the US and Myanmar that don't officially use metric, and even in the US, the military and space industry uses metric.
Yup. Well, and most scientific fields. Imperial measurements were a mistake
How dare people use the help documents for notes! One just looks like a picture of the settings
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.
Scheduling processes to balance out their CPU usage sounds too much like communism, so instead the processes using the most resources will be given an even bigger share, so they can use it to create jobs.
Several worms come pre-installed, because the best way to overcome viruses is through herd immunity.
Parent processes will not be able to terminate child processes, because life begins at execution.
There is only HTTP and not HTTPS to make sure you can't visit any un-Christian websites in secret.
Multithreading sounds too much like multiculturalism, so it is not supported.
Only ASCII characters are supported, so the computer can't communicate with China and give them our secrets.
Only available on CISC architectures, to make sure it can't be infected by the trans agenda.
I’m imagining an autocorrect from neutral pronouns to him or her etc. and the havoc it would reap on language.
"My friends are ready, they are headed to the movie theaters." -> "My friends are ready, him are headed to the movie theaters."
Hope they have fun trying to deal with the sometimes ambiguous nature of English. 😆
I'm imagining chuds trying to replace the plural they with "hims" or "hers" now lol
They'd probably call it something silly like PatriotOS
Musky at least pretends he is an engineer. Surely he would know that engineers prefer metric.
Also, didn't he grow up in South Africa? Which adopted the metric system in 1970?
Metric proves that apartheid South Africa really was wokeism gone amuck
“I can excuse racism but I draw the line at adopting the metric system”
His family is from South Africa, but Musk mostly grew up in Canada (which officially adopted metric but as we all know Canadian chuds all wish that they were American chuds).
Canada also still uses imperial for a fair few things (height, weight, apartments are in sqft) because the conversion was half-assed.
His grandfather was also a leader of the social credit party in Canada lol
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.
They should honestly be embarrassed when even porky is telling them that they need to brush up on their good manners.
: "Well gee Mr., you don't have to be so mean all the time!"
: "BUT AH DUHN WANNA BE NICE! IT'S NOT KEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWL!"
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
the fact he thinks the metric system is woke is just ridiculous
Woke users of the woke metric system include Saudi Arabia and Vatican City.
Woah imagine being able to ignore a suggestion
That would be so fucking wild, if it were possible
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
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.
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.
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
The dumb, bad writing of "Also, insane stability" makes me think it's him
I doubt he even wrote this stupid copy. It's probably a final review or whatever.
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.
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.
How can someone that have to use LaTeX could hate it? Do you know what the alternative is? Fucking Word or, I guess, hand write the formulas and the use a scanner to add them to your document.
We're dangerously close to him saying he uses Linux to avoid big tech's woke grasp on the world.
I don't think Torvalds is actually a communist but I think this article alone is enough for Musk fans to lose their minds before switching to Linux. What if they move to apple?
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The post that the headline originates from is even funnier, could have chosen a better word rather than using "moron" though
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