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[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It was not a prediction. They literally time traveled there. Did you guys even watch the show?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

Yes. At Quark's every Thursday, the Dabbo girls do a Rockettes number.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Ugh you know what I just realized guys

The Bell Riots won't happen tomorrow because the timeline got fucked up when Gene Roddenberry told the stories of the future. The warnings about the Temporal Cold War was really about the fact that we're already knee deep in it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

DAAAAAANIEEEELLLLS!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah we live in the timeline where the sanctuary districts didn’t happen so we never riot we just keep collectively watching everything burn to the ground.

[–] [email protected] 114 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I still like how the least realistic part of this entire episode was the metric system in common use in the US.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

As I have noted elsewhere, that's just because the guy who installed the clock didn't bother to change the units to fahrenheit.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Also they were using Health Care IDs for identification, from the universal healthcare, that's the most unrealistic part.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

You only saw people in the sanctuary districts using them though, right? Arguably, that's just Medi-Cal, California's Medicaid program.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It could have been wasnt it for orange man.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Hey now, he definitely, totally has a plan that he's been working on, we just have to vote him in again and he'll get it out in like two weeks. 100%.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Free euthanasia for anyone who didn't vote for him.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

They clearly consulted the wormhole prophets for this one

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

[–] [email protected] 99 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Isn't it 15 degrees every day in San Francisco

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Not to mention that there's a temperature range throughout the day.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Fun fact: in aviation, a "standard day" at sea level is defined as 29.92 inches of mercury of pressure an 15°C in temperature, and San Francisco is a coastal town so it's near as makes no odds to sea level.

15°C is basically the most average temperature on Earth.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why is it defined in inches and centigrade? Why not inches and fahrenheit or cm and centigrade? Mixing systems hurts my brain :(

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Mercury would typically be measured in mm in metric and my brain just fully glossed over the inches part

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't know why it bugs me so much, but whenever I see mixed units it really does. It's like my brain itches or something.

Also, yeah, mm makes more sense.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You ever hear the expression "Fahrenheit is how humans feel, Celsius is how water feels?" Pilots in flight are concerned with how water feels, so we use Celsius.

My favorite "mixed" unit has to be the standard adiabatic lapse rate, which is 2°C per thousand feet. 1000 feet above your head right now it's 2 degrees Celsius cooler than it is at your altitude. You can use this along with the current surface temperature and dewpoint to determine things like where clouds and icing will form.

The one that gets me is speeds and distances are usually expressed in nautical miles/knots, while visibility is expressed in statute miles.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Nice read. I find it really interesting that due to the unwillingness of many to learn something new, America is almost the only country that still uses these silly measurements.

5280 ft in a mile my ass. You don't even use 0.x numbers but fractions like 7/8th instead. And still some people believe that 1/4 pounder is bigger then a 1/3 pounder. That's crazy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I'm on the record as genuinely preferring fractional inches to decimal units in the wood shop because it's inherently a fractional task. 12 inches in a foot; keep dividing that by two and you get 6", 3", 1 1/2", 3/4", 3/8" and so on. 3/4" is the basic unit of woodworking. I have to divide by two and three quite a lot in the wood shop, so dividing 3/4" by three is 1/4" Easy.

Did this today: I had a 1 1/2" thick board, and had to cut a 1/2" groove down the center of that board. 1 1/2 divided by three is 1/2" so I chucked a 1/2" spiral bit in my router, set the fence 1/2" from the bit and the grooves are perfectly centered. Easy.

I'm not against the metric system, I learned chemistry and physics in metric, I own a set of metric wrenches. My measuring cups are graduated in fractional cups and milliliters, my kitchen scale measures in ounces, pounds and grams. But I build furniture in fractional inches and I learned to fly a plane in feet, pounds, gallons and nautical miles, and I'm damn good at both.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Did a 5 mi hike from West Portal to Funston the other day and it was 60f and melting me. Then I sat at home in avenues where it was 60f and I was freezing.

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