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Thankyou for validating my frustrations at not getting an actual answer even after making the actual question clear.

I'm asking why it should matter. Please explain, I am fascinated to know why you care about "precision". It's been explained several times, but since you're attached to your traditional, arbitrary, non-metric system you find defenses of someone else's traditional, arbitrary, non-metric sy...

You would undoubtedly mention that Celsius offers greater precision at the integer level. Compared to Celsius, using this 5-to-5 system without resorting to decimals feels like using Pirahã to talk about math. Ah, yes, "undoubtedly" being a word which here means "not consider it wort...

It's more precise and the 0 and 100 points are more human-relevant. ... So? Seriously. Americans always say things like this but I don't see why it matters any. Look, both systems work in practice just fine for the people who are accustomed to using them. But if asked to choose between the two, I w...

äreo wrote: ↑Tue Nov 28, 2023 4:10 pm It's more precise and the 0 and 100 points are more human-relevant.

... So?

Seriously. Americans always say things like this but I don't see why it matters any.

The real question, though, is where you stress the full form. Main stress on "me", with a secondary stress on "ki" for me. (When pronouncing words with four or more syllables, I find it very hard to avoid alternating stressed and unstressed syllables.) I might stress "lo&qu...

What's wrong with '150cm' or '1.5m' (the height of my bookshelf, since you use that as an example)? I dunno about other places that use the metric system, but in colloquial German, the standard way to describe the height or length of things that are between one and two meters long/tall - such as mo...

Cms are too precise and metres too vague for normal everyday things (people, cars, furniture, small boats, windows, bookshelves, pianos, cows, etc.). ... What? Do you live in a world where you're only allowed to use integer amounts of a unit and you have to use the most precise measurement every ti...

(3) Meters and liters are useful amounts to measure things on a typical human scale, but grams are not. Instead, one must use *kilo*grams. Imo, what we call a "kilogram" should've been called a "gram". This also prevents "kilogram" from having a short pithy word to ref...

What do you think is going to happen to cryptocurriencies They will, of course, never go away, but they'll probably become a more niche investment. If regulators catch up, though, I have no idea what might happen. It would depend a lot on how they get regulated. and how do you think we should react...

sasasha wrote: ↑Sat Nov 25, 2023 7:04 am Sadly there's no workable small caps Ď. I used ᴆ as a stop-gap until I can solve that.

Why not use ᴅ̌ (small caps D and combining caron?)

Eat on here is probably by analogy with live on , e.g. "He lives on the money he makes developing software." I would've assumed it would be by analogy to feed on and graze on . I read eat on differently from feed on or graze on here, e.g. you can say "The rabbits like to feed on (or ...

Travis B. wrote: ↑Wed Nov 22, 2023 9:10 pm Eat on here is probably by analogy with live on, e.g. "He lives on the money he makes developing software."

I would've assumed it would be by analogy to feed on and graze on.

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Trying hard not to be snarky, but are you absolutely sure all this can't be done without also killing at least 20 million people, invading its neighbors, destroying the environment, being unable to feed the country, and fostering wars and dictatorships across the planet? Is Finland a cesspool of ho...

So what? Is the Ephemera board not good enough for you? Personally, I much prefer the slower pace of conversation since it means I don't get to obsess over a conversation. You can set your desktop background as your profile picture here, what do you mean? If you don't like the way the board looked,...

foxcatdog wrote: ↑Sun Nov 05, 2023 10:44 pm ZBB discord server when.

Please present a 3,000 word essay justifying this request to my desk in two weeks.

There's no point speculating until we know more about the text.

/-ɒntʃ/ [-ɔntʃ] for me.

I wish it was possible to mute threads so I don't ever have to know that people are posting there