A lot of people white knighting clocks in this thread
There’s Metric / Decimal Time.
Next time someone makes a post praising the metric system and making fun of people for using imperial units, feel free to call them out as a filthy casual for using a 24-hour clock.
The clocks that use Roman numerals mix in letters.
I’ll be there at H:00.
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At least our hours are the same length regardless of latitude now, so let’s be grateful for that.
oh god, thanks for making me imagine something terrible
Sundials.
Now if you want to get really pissed, the magnetic North Pole is actually the South Pole of the Earth’s magnetic field. We call it the North Pole because the north side of a magnet points to it.
Don’t tell them about positive/negative electron movement.
Actually, we call it the North Pole because we already had a concept of North from the North Star. Then we invented magnets and decided that the part that points North is the North side of a magnet (despite North Pole being magnetic south).
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I have no issue reading this.
piece of art
ten ten
Don’t talk shit about duodecimal 😠
This sounds like the “Jason, Jason, Jason” YouTube guy’s conversations.
sub.wetshaving.social?
What is this?
My guess is there are only so many conversations you can have over whether a Silvertip Badger is superior to a Boar brush.
You’d be surprised
But there’s a million razorblades people can argue about. Platinum, tool steel, carbon. And then there’s which holder is the best. And then all the straight razor refinishing/refirbishing you could get into. Not to mention, strops, towels, soaps, sebum oils, styptics and on and on.
This is basically a standup routine
“At least we’re not mixing in letters”
I see
IIIIin there and I cry a little on the inside.
This has become a standard on analog clocks and watches (presumably to avoid confusion with VI), but for some reason IX and XI (for 9 and 11 respectively) is fine.
Personally I’d like to see IX and IIIIIIIIIII.
ETA: I guess IX and XI are ‘fine’ because they’re not upside down, but my point still stands.
We have Babylon to thank for this
Well, then I can’t complain, lovely sci-fi production.
Yeah but no matter how hard I look I can’t find the first 4
Zathras took B4 so that The One could use it.
Don’t mind the first 4, the best one is Babylon 7
Should I watch 5 and then 7? What about 6?
Forget about 6, 5 is fine, sure, watch it first, why not
This isn’t helping my anxiety about watching things in order but ok I guess.
Oh, I feel you. People say they like Doctor Who, yet they never watched An Unearthly Child. Pathetics.
Don’t worry about Babylon 6.
Worry about the sequels, where Babylon 7 8 9
Sounds scary
I get the joke, but it also makes me wish for a bunch of Babylon 5 sequels and prequels.
Our mistake was not embracing base-12 time, it was failing to embrace a base-12 counting system.
100% this.
Not true. You have math thank for that and there is a good reason for numbers like that (and why Babylonier used them). They are very useful to do calculations in your head, especially division because the have a lot of factors. The concept is called highly composite numbers (HCN) and superior highly composite numbers (SHCN). They are practically “anti-primes”. That’s why base-6 or base-12 are objectively a better number system than base-10 but it’s pretty much too late to switch now.
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And I thank them.
I only recently learned the etymology of the word: “second”
Its name comes from being the “second” division of the hour, with the minute being the first.
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I’ll see you in 5 firsts, 2 seconds and 7 thirds.
Zero zeros?
I honestly hate this.
It’s like bad world building for some throwaway fiction story.
