The Quartz Beer Index

[Bauce]

Since when does Fahrenheit start at 32? It's been less than 32 for weeks here.

[Professor]

[John Galt]

If you want a bigger different between 1 and -1, I present you with Bauceus. 1 degree Bauceus is equivalent to 100 degrees Fahrenheit. -1 Bauceus, you'll freeze to death almost instantly. 1 degree Bauceus and you're in danger of suffering heat stroke. does my system win?

[John Galt]

[Professor]

[Professor]

[John Galt]

i use regular teaspoons and tablespoons out of my drawer for measurement all the time...

yes, the human experience is subjective. frankly so was metric. they've retconned it to try to make it less and less, but in the end, it still is.

what is a meter anyway?

"the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second"

yeah that's something we all can f**k relate to.

how is the meter even helpful then?

it's great for scientific measurement. but if i wanted to travel 1609.34 meters, how does knowing that is the distance that light travels in a vacuum (since we live in a vacuum right?) over 0.00000536818 seconds? it's not. at all. it's totally arbitrary and has no basis in life here on earth for anything we do normally outside of scientific endeavors. but what might be helpful is knowing that it's about a 1000 paces (paces being double-stride, roman style)

the metric system is just as subjective as the customary system, however, the decimal notation is very good for science. but day to day? it's terrible.

and i've never seen a 41/64th in socket. is that a thing? also do you just throw yours all into a jumble of a mess and look for numbers? i just get the next biggest size, whatever that is. organization is key there, not measurement system

[exploited]

Yeah, imperial is hands down better for day to day stuff. No question about it.

"How tall are you?"

"180cm."

"What?"

[John Galt]

oh now you want to get into time?

you criticize use of the foot, because of the 12 inches. well what about the day, with its 24 hours? why not change that to the 100hr day

24 subjective hrs = 100 metric totally real hours

so there are 100 seconds in a minute, 100 minutes in an hour, and 100 hours in a day. it's so easy. 10,000 minutes in a day, 1,000,000 seconds in a day. that's way better than the 86400 currently. so basically a second really should be 11.5 x smaller than it is right now. then this "one mississippi" garbage can be put to rest

of course the day itself is pretty damn arbitrary. we should probably just measure time in seconds and just keep on growing that amount of time until the end of time if we want to stop relying on tradition and human experience

so then we can say "remember that football game back on 79097986989680679?" and we'd all remember watching that soccer game

[exploited]

It's so good to see you around again Galt.