100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY date format.

@amiserabilist @glasspusher The streets are flat. This is NOT Europe!

@wendinoakland

yet:

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@glasspusher

@ArchaeoIain @Natasha_Jay 22/7 is the one true date surely

@amiserabilist @wendinoakland man, I was in montclair. a lot of the streets weren't flat

@zed I can assure you we all learnt to do that like muscle memory by the time we turned nine.

@DrHyde @Natasha_Jay

@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

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

@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.

@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?

@NickGates

sometimes you don't find out if Vallejo is East Bay, North Bay, or not Bay at all, you just move on.

@wendinoakland @glasspusher

is Vallejo East Bay, North Bay, or not Bay at all?

@wendinoakland @NickGates @glasspusher

is it in no mans land?

@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?

@amiserabilist @NickGates @glasspusher It’s SOMEPLACE.

@u0421793 @Natasha_Jay @stux @amiserabilist @wendinoakland can’t tell if your joking. Last time we toured Scotland “miles” were everywhere.

@u0421793

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

@Natasha_Jay @stux @renwillis @wendinoakland

@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.

@renwillis

“The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them."

@u0421793 @Natasha_Jay @stux @wendinoakland

Oh and AM/PM time. In some things that are unusably poorly translated to Russian, I have to set my language to en_GB just to get 24-hour time format.

The fun part is that Americans even use 24-hour time but only in the military apparently.