grozzle

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[–] grozzle@lemm.ee 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

It's not more precise, it becomes inaccurate.

A man says he's 6'6". Sure. If he's anywhere between 6'5½" and 6'6½", that's true.

You say he's 198.12cm tall. The range of this being true is now thinner than a needle. It has gone far beyond what anyone actually measures. In over 99% of cases, it's not true, and if it is, it won't be for long, because the human body isn't nearly that consistent from breath to breath.

The conversion with spurious false precision has made the number go from true to not true.

The man is six foot six, yes, true. The man is 198.12cm - no he isn't.

[–] grozzle@lemm.ee 5 points 5 days ago

so many researchers toasting their bagels and yet never using your dedicated bagel button will wear you down.

[–] grozzle@lemm.ee 8 points 5 days ago (4 children)

When the original value is only precise to plus or minus half an inch, it makes no sense whatsoever to do a conversion that's a hundred times more precise.

[–] grozzle@lemm.ee 8 points 5 days ago

Alec's Texan cousin who showed up in this video.

[–] grozzle@lemm.ee 13 points 5 days ago (7 children)

nobody is measuring people to a tenth of a millimeter.

[–] grozzle@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago

i doubt i would have time for cooking at an active orogeny.

[–] grozzle@lemm.ee 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

been there once - saw a delivery of some big canisters of gas 🤔

[–] grozzle@lemm.ee 21 points 6 days ago

that's during the moving picture though

this is before the moving picture

let's bring that phrase back

[–] grozzle@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, that's not why.

[–] grozzle@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Kazon, for sure. "not worthy of assimilation"

[–] grozzle@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"why does the string between these cups smell like det-cord?"

[–] grozzle@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

well, they won't be, after they explode.

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