Locked front doors also weren't common in my villige when my dad was a kid, but I don't know it any other way. Could be that that changed due to population after WW2 and refugee distribution. Over the last decades it also gets more common to lock sheds
Well, it does change. There are communities that shift from “everybody knows everybody” and the social control that comes with it to a more urbanized mentality. That makes it easier to break in in such places.
And what is modern? Cars are barely 200 years old and the increased mobility makes it easier for strangers to break into far away places.
Yes, I read about it, it’s also called Scandinavian mile or metric mile.
We still use metricized ton [Tonne] (1Mg / 1000kg) and rarely pound [Pfund] (5hg / 500g) in Germany. And hundredweight/quintal [Zentner], which is 50kg (100 pound) in Germany, but 100kg in Switzerland and Austria.
It could even be called a mile! We already have ton/tonne which is just an absolute nightmare of a unit, so we might as well add more confusion to “mile”.
It’s not more confusion, these kinds of units never had a uniform definition to begin with. The metric system got new unit names to get clear unit definitions. US survey mile was just given up last year. Nautical miles are still different.
The metric system that was invented in France had three main goals: based on decimal numbers, clear definition and to derive measures of length and weight from nature.
The last point is important to have a constant measure that doesn’t slowly change over time and to make it reproducible.
The US mile shrunk by 1⁄8 inch in 1959 after they adopted the international mile, which was agreed upon UK and some of it’s former colonies to resynchronize their units that slowly developed apart over time.
And I just understood why that’s the case. Most of the old units used highly composite numbers as factors, which have an incredibly high number of divisors. We still widely use such factors for time and angles.
Well, some people don’t do well with the higher speed and more social interaction it can lead to. It doesn’t have to result in giving up that hobby, but leaving communities related to it.
Lemmy doesn’t work like that, lemmy is about communities and you can join communities here. But Mastodon, PixelFed and PeerTube don’t work like that, they are about people posting stuff and therefore you follow people.
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Locked front doors also weren't common in my villige when my dad was a kid, but I don't know it any other way. Could be that that changed due to population after WW2 and refugee distribution. Over the last decades it also gets more common to lock sheds