After the French revolutionaries beheaded their king, they had another bright idea:
— Jash Dholani (@oldbooksguy) November 4, 2024
"Let's make the day 10 hours long"
This is NOT a joke. Left-wing "experts" actually changed the length of minutes, hours, and weeks in the name of science…
This is the story of that disaster:
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Surprised they didn’t make PI = 3
Yes, and we are still dealing with the Metric System (or Stupid SI units in STEM).
I’ve always assumed that the SI hired Groucho Marx’s mom to come up with the names at the extreme ends of the SI units of scale.
The Marx Brothers’ mom didn’g give them those names. Femto was a stage name for Sheldon.
You’ve been a great audience, I’ll be here all week.
“The beauty of the metric system is its total indifference to the way humans measure things.”
This is why our friends to the left are colonizing the calendar and refusing to use BC and AD in favor of other acronyms that mean the same thing. Only this time, it is incremental.
Beware the Ides of Thermidor.
It never really made any sense to me what the end game was for using CE and BCE, when the time scale still acknowledged the event that led to the split between AD and BC in the first place.
This seems related. Nate Bargatze on weights and measures.