MisterFrog @ MisterFrog @lemmy.world

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I'm just mad kg is the base unit, inconsistent with the rest. The prefixes for mass are all wrong (in my opinion).

Bring back the Grave.

For example then a joule could be G m² s^-2, no prefixes 🥹 (I dunno what the symbol for Grave would be)

Nuclear plant construction delayed? Budget overrun? Even in one of the most nuclear developed countries in the world? Wooooow, what a surprise!!

I know you're not supposed to put down other people's faith, but this is weird.

Cannibals, the lot of them

Oh yeah, I like this hypothesis

I like this train of thought, but 99 x 230 = 22,770

This is probably some US nonsense where the battery was $220 without tax, and the value at the register for the 99 batteries was with tax.

Needless to say: 🤢

To say what others have said in a different way. Yes, in almost any categorisation system, you're gonna need to deal with some misc haha.

Where else could these things possibly go? (minus the scales, which in my opinion belong on some flat surface in a cupboard of countertop somewhere, since I use my scales all the time)

We have one of these drawers at home, also. I think your wife is right on this one friend.

This was my reaction also. WoOoAh! Free daycare? How radical!! Haha

Not in isolation, no. We have it in Australia, but we're not socialist.

But I'd say first past the post voting is antithetical to democracy and one ought to fight to remove it.

Thanks for the lengthy reply. Pity about the public broadcasters, it's the same here in Australia. The ABC's funding has been cut so much that they're rarely properly critical of the government.

I, maybe naively, hold on to hope that we'll be able to pull out of this global slide to the right without the horrors of last century.

Frohe Weihnachten :)

I feel like I remember hearing when AfD was getting less than the 5% (or whatever it is) minimum to be granted proportional seats. I knew they had grown in popularity, but they're at 19% now. 19???!

They should have already banned them.

Meine Oma war 11 am Kriegsende, und hat mir natürlich viel von dir Geschichte persönlich erzählt.

For fucking shame. Honestly.

Makes me quite sad :( as an German Australian. And and as any human who's been to school in the last 40 years.

When will humanity learn that capitalism is the problem, not the foreigners...?

Original MarioKart DS, Luigi in his vacuum go-kart was peak performance

We've heard about car brain, this is its cousin, detached house brain.

Tall, wide, building, scary!! OoooOoOooOoOoh

I should clarify, this is my personal preference, for ease of conversion. I wish we stuck to consistent intervals. They're all valid, just that I find it very lovely that in industrial/construction we don't use cm (in Australia)

But there are so many various pressure units in use, which is a slight inconvenience. Pa, Bar, atm, cm-water, are the ones I've come across in actual use so far. (Metric engineering context, RIP US engineers)

Makes it necessary for me to use a calculator to make sure I'm not messing something up. kPa to mbar: okay *bar/(100 kPa) * 1000 mbar/bar (which I'm now noticing is hPa)

So in addition to my preference for consistent prefix intervals, let's also stop using Bar, cm-water, and anything else that's not Pa. That'd be nice ☺️

Just poking some fun because they're so prolific, not complaining!

At least they can. So bummed stock android no longer has the option :(

As much as hPa is legitimate, in English speaking contexts I wish we kept to 10^3 prefixes. (Pa, kPa, MPa, GPa etc).

Like how we keep to nm, μm, mm, m, km. Mostly.

Or if one really must, atmospheres. Other units are just more of a pain to convert between, like yeah, it's metric, so it's not THAT hard, but just nicer in my opinion if it's consistent intervals.

Alas, at least I very rarely need to deal with PSI. Only with valve manufacturers using imperial valve coefficients (Cv values), grumble, grumble. They don't even include the units usually, which to me is heresy. The units are US gallons/min of water at 60 °F per pressure drop of 1 PSI. Like, US engineers have this really stupid habit of not including units in constants and coefficients in some contexts, drives me up the wall.

Thanks for being the convenient recipient of this metric engineer's unit rant.

I note that the article doesn't actually outline the grounds on which they were denied, just the application was delayed meaning they weren't granted in time for travel.

For a second here I thought the applicants dobbed themselves in, because at the end of all Australian visa applications it asks you about war crimes.

This is how it read back in 2020: "Has any applicant ever been charged with, or indicted for: genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, torture, slavery, or any other crime that is otherwise of a serious international concern?"

And someone actually ticking yes on that question is just nuts. Surely they did not tick yes.

A stupid design in that case too, though. Make people need to sit in specific seats for their handedness... Smort

My work laptop's graphics card maxes out at 4. I'm pretty sad about it.