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joel_feila
joel_feila @ joel_feila @lemmy.world
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why don't people say mega meters

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  • Here i learn mega, giga, tera. But show up in computer which is like place you most commonly see them.

    • why don't people say mega meters

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  • yeah but sadly not enough people know how to read that. sadface.

    • I notice Indians speaking English tend to speak very fast. Are the Indian languages simply spoken faster?

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  • well correction English has 20 vowels, depending on dialect

    • Uvalde parents lash out after new report clears city police of wrongdoing during 2022 school attack

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  • well in the case ofa sheriff he might have run unopposed

    • Uvalde parents lash out after new report clears city police of wrongdoing during 2022 school attack

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  • american law american order in action

    • why don't people say mega meters

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  • yeah humans do really need a small, inch and cm, a medium, meter and feet, and a big, mile and km.

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  • that's a whole 12 Mft

    • why don't people say mega meters

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  • and the old gauge system for shotguns.

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  • we do list volcanic eruptions in megatons of TNT. The makers of the first a bomb pick it since the largest explosion ever made by then was a ship full explosives and some had calculated how many tons of TNT that ship was carrying

    • why don't people say mega meters

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  • oh I'll have to do that at some time

    • Sweden officially joins NATO, ending decades of post-World War II neutrality

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  • Yeah but USA would have done all that with or with out NATO.

    • I hear phrases like "half-past", "quarter til", and "quarter after" way less often since digital clocks have became more commonplace.

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  • so would just saying am pm all the time.

    • I hear phrases like "half-past", "quarter til", and "quarter after" way less often since digital clocks have became more commonplace.

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  • I'm curious why it got the name digital time.

    • I hear phrases like "half-past", "quarter til", and "quarter after" way less often since digital clocks have became more commonplace.

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  • I have almost never heard people use quarter or half to tell time.

    • Don't use Appimages (a writeup about all the reasons they are a pain for users)

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  • Well you can just put a flatpac on a website and let download it from their right?

    • Pope Francis: ‘Today the ugliest danger is gender ideology’

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  • mister waterfall

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  • Oh good i dont use that

    • The Life and Death of Aaron Bushnell: Friend Says Self-Immolation Was a Demand for Justice

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  • He asked, what would you do if you lived in a genocidal state?

    My answer "always have been".

    • Radical New Theory Could Finally Unite The Two Biggest Frameworks in Physics

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  • Yes because new space can be made faster then light.

    • Are there any Windows-exclusive programs you use?

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  • not for me. Teams can be a web app, packet tracer has a linux version.