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FYI, it means “týden”, or week in Czech, not a ton. If any major countries except English-speaking ones adopted imperial units, the world would be like this. We would have “pc” meaning “palec” (inch) or 25.4 mm in Czech texts or parsec (3.09 × 10¹⁹ mm) in English texts.

I’m counting mass adoption in the specific country (US)

I know people do that and while this reframing is not exactly a lie, it’s interesting it works even when they are lumping walking (Homo erectus) and buses, trains, trams and presumably bikes (all 19ᵗʰ century) while excluding cars (basically early 20ᵗʰ century)

Interesting, considering (motorized) public transit is not that old, and bikes are even newer (cca 80 and 20 years prior to the automobile, respectively, depending on location)

I hate when people review the (unnamed) product rather than the store or vice versa… (It doesn’t help that the leading Czech goods/stores search platform, Heureka.cz, sends both questionnaires at once)

The ? part (parameters) sometimes do play a role. But by removing parts like ?maxheight=300, you can sometimes get higher quality images.

Then there’s the # part (section). If you’re referencing a section in a long document, check if there’s a ToC linking to headings, or a # link next to them. For PDFs, #page=X usually works. BTW it is mostly harmless: just identify the HTML element ID to scroll into view and most browsers don’t send it to the server (but JavaScript can access it).

Now draw someone saying his name

Note: Guten Morgen, Sonnenschein is very common in German

You know the German “gender asterisk”? Well, how about “cishet*”? This time, the asterisk is not for fuzzy string matching (like on computers) but footnotes (like in typography; the footnote is shown here for clarity but would not be in practice).

* femboys and twinks are welcome too

I know it’s a meme but… victims of car crashes are not just bad drivers

It’s a mistranslation. Maria is German, and they call pasta Nudeln (The word Pasta exists too but Nudeln gets arguably misused to described pasta often)

Edit: German is my third language. Best tag @instantnudel@feddit.org − Feddit.org’s Nudeln expert − to weigh in

Correction: NB should be written as 𝑛/𝐵, which is short for “𝑛>1 sentient entities per body”. /s

On the slim chance this isn’t a shitpost, OOP might want to check out Pluralpedia and More than One. Most NBs are actually happily singular.

Additionally, the perception of multiple entities in one’s brain may be harmful, in which case it should be consulted with a psychiatrist for treatment as multiple personality disorder.

Enjoy life. It’s not worth it to miss out on stuff just to give us daily posts, as lovely as they’ve been

No spoiler warning?!

Yes, things change. No country used metric in medieval times, now It’s mostly just the US that refuses to. It’s their lack of experience that leads to abominations like “kph”, “sqm”, “kgf”, “cc” or “MFD” (micro? milli? megafarad?). Only minor updates have needed to be made to the metric system: most recently the kilogram is no longer based on a piece if metal in Paris but constants of the universe. Unless you’re weighing to 8+ significant figures, there is no difference. Meanwhile the US ton/metric ton (10%) and mile/nautical mile (15%) difference causes confusion somewhere every day.

Units are meant to be cross-language. If you want stupid units and ad-hoc abbreviations, use the imperial system. They have PSI (lbf/in²) and mph (mi/h), where one has “p” for reciprocity (“/”) and another nothing. And imagine the chaos if other languages used imperial units and abbreviated them: see Wikidata for inch, including 100+ language versions

㎤: Correct
㎖: Correct
㏄: Get the fuck out of here. Standards in physics over industry conventions.

(Yes, I’m using the single-character, CJK-fullwidth forms for cm³, ml, cc to achieve vertical alignment)

Guilty of… not being horny? What sound is made when one goes to not-horny jail in your universe?

CW: straight

That’s a genuinely awesome photo. Cats don’t do anything on demang, of course not yawning.