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Funny enough the foot was restandardized to .3048m in 1959. So it is a metric-derived unit. Before that it was a feifdom unit, set by kings.
by vdvsvwvwvwvwv 2y ago
Funny enough the foot was restandardized to .3048m in 1959. So it is a metric-derived unit. Before that it was a feifdom unit, set by kings.
- dgfitz 2y agoWas a tongue-in-check turn-of-phrase. This place is wound tight apparently.
- Brian_K_White 2y agoYour tangential remark is ok but anyone else's is wound up too tight. OK.
- dgfitz 2y agoI was trying to frame the numbers for people who don’t have an engineering background. My mistake.
- lukeck 2y agoAnd they provided an interesting tidbit of information about some of the units mentioned. I didn’t read it as anything negative towards your comment at all. Both your’s and their’s added to the conversation.
- DonHopkins 2y agoOh, now you're just trolling the Apostrophe Nazis! ;)
- 47282847 2y agoAnd it made sense for you to then call it “freedom units“ why, of all possibilities?
- wiml 2y agoEh, it's a pretty common tongue-in-cheek way to refer to America's love of a slightly old fashioned system. I wouldn't read much into it.
- 47282847 2y agoWords matter.
- 47282847 2y agoAt least half of the world has been violently invaded by this so-called “freedom“ and will take offense by this framing. Rightly so. Freedom by force is simply violence, with the additional violence of deliberate newspeak. Anyone repeating this joins the perpetrators, consciously or out of ignorance, and anyone not speaking out against it supports them by inaction and avoidance of their own responsibility and power.
- vdvsvwvwvwvwv 2y agoHey just having fun. Transatlantic banter and fun facts. I had to look it up to check: my mental model was that a foot is some king's foot but there is more of a storied history.