100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY date format.
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@amiserabilist @wendinoakland yes I know Wendy is in the west part of the east bay, the cool part. I was there until fall of 2024
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@glasspusher Lol! I’m actually in the better, sunnier, hipper part of the SFBA, the East Bay. The San Francisco paintings of Wayne Theibaud (famed mostly for his wonderful depiction of cakes) will give you a sense of just how vertiginous it is over there!
@amiserabilist @renwillis @Natasha_Jay @stux -
@amiserabilist @glasspusher The streets are flat. This is NOT Europe!
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@amiserabilist @glasspusher The streets are flat. This is NOT Europe!
yet:
Let’s Buy California from Trump – Denmark’s Next Big Adventure
Have you ever looked at a map and thought, "You know what Denmark needs? More sunshine, palm trees, and roller skates." Well, we have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make that dream a reality.
Let’s buy California from Donald Trump!
Yes, you heard that right.
California could be ours, and we need your help to make it happen.
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@Natasha_Jay and then we will be able to celebrate Pi Day on 31 April
@ArchaeoIain @Natasha_Jay 22/7 is the one true date surely
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yet:
Let’s Buy California from Trump – Denmark’s Next Big Adventure
Have you ever looked at a map and thought, "You know what Denmark needs? More sunshine, palm trees, and roller skates." Well, we have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make that dream a reality.
Let’s buy California from Donald Trump!
Yes, you heard that right.
California could be ours, and we need your help to make it happen.
@amiserabilist @wendinoakland man, I was in montclair. a lot of the streets weren't flat
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@vonxylofon but when I wear a watch (which is every day), and my train leaves at 18h, I don’t want to have to do math while looking at my watch to see if I’m going to be on time or not.
@zed I can assure you we all learnt to do that like muscle memory by the time we turned nine.
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@ArchaeoIain @Natasha_Jay 22/7 is the one true date surely
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@NickGates Vallejo is pretty much North Bay. It's across the Napa River from Mare Island, and south of Sonoma & Napa. Actually, Vallej the same latitude as Point Reyes Seashore, just inland a bit. @glasspusher @amiserabilist
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@Natasha_Jay if we used date format like jan/19/2026 it wouldn't be an issue
So many new delicious issues though!
I propose we rename the months so that they sort alphabetically in calendar order.
In all languages. @gkrnours @Natasha_Jay
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100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY date format.
@Natasha_Jay I would wage an actual war on the MM/DD/YY format, but it would be confused about when the war even began.
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@wendinoakland @renwillis @Natasha_Jay @stux
NASA lost the Mars Climate Orbiter in 1999 due to a fatal mix-up between English (feet, pounds) and metric (meters, Newtons) units, where contractor software used English measurements for thruster force while NASA expected metric, causing the orbiter to enter Mars' atmosphere too low and burn up, a classic example of unit conversion error.
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-climate-orbiter/
$327.6 million
@amiserabilist @wendinoakland @renwillis @Natasha_Jay @stux what’re you on about? England uses metric measurements, we (all of the UK not just England) is a hard-metric nation. The only English people using imperial measurements are long dead many generations ago, before decimalisation and the common market.
Britain went decimal in the middle of the reign of Queen Euston, I mean Victoria, with the long-fought for introduction of the Florin, which was our first decimal coin. It kept getting vetoed over and over, since the first proposals some centuries prior to that. -
@NickGates @glasspusher @amiserabilist Was mine semi-reasonable?
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sometimes you don't find out if Vallejo is East Bay, North Bay, or not Bay at all, you just move on.
is Vallejo East Bay, North Bay, or not Bay at all?
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@NickGates @glasspusher @amiserabilist Was mine semi-reasonable?
@wendinoakland @NickGates @glasspusher
is it in no mans land?
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@NickGates @glasspusher @amiserabilist Ok, I asked husband and he said No, Vallejo *isn’t* North Bay, despite being north of the SFBay. It’s also east, which might be dominant. Fck if I know?
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@wendinoakland @NickGates @glasspusher
is it in no mans land?
@amiserabilist @NickGates @glasspusher It’s SOMEPLACE.
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@amiserabilist @wendinoakland @renwillis @Natasha_Jay @stux what’re you on about? England uses metric measurements, we (all of the UK not just England) is a hard-metric nation. The only English people using imperial measurements are long dead many generations ago, before decimalisation and the common market.
Britain went decimal in the middle of the reign of Queen Euston, I mean Victoria, with the long-fought for introduction of the Florin, which was our first decimal coin. It kept getting vetoed over and over, since the first proposals some centuries prior to that.@u0421793 @Natasha_Jay @stux @amiserabilist @wendinoakland can’t tell if your joking. Last time we toured Scotland “miles” were everywhere.
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@amiserabilist @wendinoakland @renwillis @Natasha_Jay @stux what’re you on about? England uses metric measurements, we (all of the UK not just England) is a hard-metric nation. The only English people using imperial measurements are long dead many generations ago, before decimalisation and the common market.
Britain went decimal in the middle of the reign of Queen Euston, I mean Victoria, with the long-fought for introduction of the Florin, which was our first decimal coin. It kept getting vetoed over and over, since the first proposals some centuries prior to that.fair enough:
The primary cause of this discrepancy was that one piece of ground software supplied by Lockheed Martin produced results in a United States customary unit, contrary to its Software Interface Specification (SIS), while a second system, supplied by NASA, expected those results to be in SI units, in accordance with the SIS. Specifically, software that calculated the total impulse produced by thruster firings produced results in pound-force seconds. The trajectory calculation software then used these results – expected to be in newton-seconds (incorrect by a factor of 4.45)[2] – to update the predicted position of the spacecraft.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_failure
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fair enough:
The primary cause of this discrepancy was that one piece of ground software supplied by Lockheed Martin produced results in a United States customary unit, contrary to its Software Interface Specification (SIS), while a second system, supplied by NASA, expected those results to be in SI units, in accordance with the SIS. Specifically, software that calculated the total impulse produced by thruster firings produced results in pound-force seconds. The trajectory calculation software then used these results – expected to be in newton-seconds (incorrect by a factor of 4.45)[2] – to update the predicted position of the spacecraft.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_failure
@amiserabilist @u0421793 @Natasha_Jay @stux @wendinoakland I don’t know what’s happening anymore and I want off the ride now.
Kiss in metric, fuck in imperial, and let the rest fall where they may on the short blip of time we have on this planet.
