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[–] [email protected] 43 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Body camera video equivalent to 25 million copies of “Barbie”

Literally anything but the metric system

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

it's called SEO and it's an art

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

SEO os the bane of the internet. SEO is why i have to scroll through a novella every time i want to check out a recipe

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh that's so fucking annoying, but I also think it's part of the culture among those who typically submit recipes online.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

it may have started that way, but now it's all SEO

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

We don't even need to choose! Just use hours, months, years, decades! But no, Barbie movies.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

There is no common metric measure of time.

Edit -common

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I'm sorry, can you restate that in terms of the number of ground state transitions of a Cs-136 atom?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes it is, but SI is not all metric. Metric is fundamentally a base 10 system. Time is base 60 you can probably thank the ancient Sumerians for that but there's some debate.

At one point the French tried to make metric time a thing but it didn't stick.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Short times are always given in scales of 10 for seconds (ms, μs, ns). And long ones can be too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

And machinists in America use decimal inches, but I don't think anyone would say that inches is metric.

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