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  • LillyPip@lemmy.catomemes@lemmy.worldGIRL. NOT LIKE THAT.
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    4 days ago

    Tbf, some other countries are schizophrenic about it, too. The UK uses miles for some distances and km for others, metres for anything more than about a body-length, when it might switch to feet depending on context or location. That doesn’t even broach other (sometimes overlapping) units. Humans are* remarkably inconsistent considering how universally we talk about things relying on measurement.
















  • Do you mean these?

    They were part of a continuity ritual we performed before they installed cupholders in computers. You’d have to feed them to your pc one at a time when requested, often whilst entering an incantation in the command prompt. The meaning may have been lost to time, but we still use their icon to honour that ritual.

    e: I can’t believe I found these so quickly. They were still on the same closet shelf where I put them in 2002.






















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