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minus-squareThisUsernameKillsFascists@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoWhy would god use dumbasses as the standard unit of philosophy?
minus-squareRailcar8095@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoIt’s measuring speed, speed of light is 1 dumbass. Which proves God is American (anything except metric)
minus-squareTeppa@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoI learned recently that it was the Babylonians who invented the hour and the minute as a unit of time, and they used base 60, which I thought was pretty neat. Then we created seconds and milliseconds in base 10.
minus-squareChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoIIRC, they picked 60 because it could be evenly divided into 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, and 1/6 which allowed them to stick to whole numbers more easily.
Why would god use dumbasses as the standard unit of philosophy?
It’s measuring speed, speed of light is 1 dumbass.
Which proves God is American (anything except metric)
I learned recently that it was the Babylonians who invented the hour and the minute as a unit of time, and they used base 60, which I thought was pretty neat. Then we created seconds and milliseconds in base 10.
IIRC, they picked 60 because it could be evenly divided into 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, and 1/6 which allowed them to stick to whole numbers more easily.