You're on the internet, which is American!

[Cindy Claveau]

 

[Sid]

Everybody knows that vice president Al Gore invented the Internet. Right?
It runs on that old PC in his basement.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

I want to argue that 'the internet' was created by [D]ARPA, and that Tim Berners-Lee's World Wide Web merely runs on it... but the internet backbone hasn't been owned or run by the U.S. government/military since like 1994. It's about as American now as... um... automobiles. Let's go with that.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Ahhh, these sorts of blokes. They get unusually riled when you call them a vocal minority whining for special treatment.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Officially it is US customary units. And since a long time US customary units are defined using the metric system.

"Since 1893, the legal definition of the foot in the United States has been based on the meter. "

U.S. Survey Foot

www.nist.gov

 

[Knutz Scorpio]

So easy to use same internet to search for a conversion. If it was up to me we'd all be using metric.

"How many meters in a kilometer?" "1000, duh"
"How many feet in a mile?" "Fuck if I know."

 

[Noodles]

If the Internet isn't American, then why does everyone on the Internet speak English?

Checkmate atheists.

 

[Sid]

If the Internet isn't American, then why does everyone on the Internet speak English?

Checkmate atheists.

Wat bedoel je eigenlijk precies?
Heb je wel eens op Nederlandse, Duitse, Griekse, Spaanse of Franse websites gekeken?

 

[Khamon]

Officially it is US customary units. And since a long time US customary units are defined using the metric system.

"Since 1893, the legal definition of the foot in the United States has been based on the meter. "

U.S. Survey Foot

www.nist.gov

I was in secondary school when Jimmy Carter was the US President and remember a federal push to convert the country to metric. The mistake was teaching us conversions rather than requiring us to use the measurements. Signs, instructions, speedometers, et. al. included both imperial and metric values so people simply ignored the metrics. If equipment and documentation had cited only metrics, the population would've actually converted, and we'd be modernized woke Europeans by now uhuh I done said it out loud in my bare feet with bubba gusto!

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

spank me daddy
Dutch -
geef me een klap papa


Dutch is a joke language made up by the Onion.

 

[Soen Eber]

spank me daddy
Dutch -
geef me een klap papa


Dutch is a joke language made up by the Onion.

And the city of Bielefeld does not exist - it is a lie propagated by the notorious SIE conspiracy, or Grosse SIE.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

If the Internet isn't American, then why does everyone on the Internet speak English?

Checkmate atheists.

Wait, I know this..

Same reason all Christians are completely fluent in (and refuse to speak anything but) Aramaic, Ancient Hebrew, Ancient Greek and Latin... right?

Honestly, I don't know... I'm just a checkmated atheist.

 

[Sid]

spank me daddy
Dutch -
geef me een klap papa


Dutch is a joke language made up by the Onion.

The earliest version of Dutch is the mother of the Germanic language family you silly cat.
Why do you think the Dutch learn English, German and Danish so easily?

 

[Lexxi]

So easy to use same internet to search for a conversion. If it was up to me we'd all be using metric.

"How many meters in a kilometer?" "1000, duh"
"How many feet in a mile?" "Fuck if I know."

It's obvious and easy to know. 5280 feet in a mile. Just imagine how many steps you would need to take to walk a mile. 5280 steps, or feet. *nods*
(it's actually 2,000 steps in a mile, and the "easy" part is asking Google "How many feet are in a mile" and hoping Google gives you correct answer).

I have no concept of what 5280 feet look like.
Visualizes 1 feet.

Then imagines 5280 of those. Yep, means nothing to me.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

It's obvious and easy to know. 5280 feet in a mile. Just imagine how many steps you would need to take to walk a mile. 5280 steps, or feet. *nods*
(it's actually 2,000 steps in a mile, and the "easy" part is asking Google "How many feet are in a mile" and hoping Google gives you correct answer).

I have no concept of what 5280 feet look like.
Visualizes 1 feet.

Then imagines 5280 of those. Yep, means nothing to me.

I want to point out that there are many hidden intuitions in the old imperial system that were once helpful to old timey folks. A cup being a normal size for a cup of coffee, a pint being a normal size for a beer, a foot being a roughly average men's shoe. 5280 is a nicely composite number that can be divided by 32, 3, 5 and 11 (the last one seems random, I will admit). 12 inches to a foot also has more divisors than 10.

That said, metric is still better... I honestly think old imperial made more sense from a medieval perspective but it just doesn't anymore.

Finally, I want to say the internet had plenty of roots before the WWW was created at CERN. LOTS of people contributed to computer technology and the internet.

 

[Free]

Visualizes 1 feet.

Then imagines 5280 of those. Yep, means nothing to me.

Um, your image "visualizes" 18 inches, not a foot. So you'll need to imagine 3520 of those units for a mile, which is weirder and still probably meaningless.

 

[Noodles]

Wait, I know this..

Same reason all Christians are completely fluent in (and refuse to speak anything but) Aramaic, Ancient Hebrew, Ancient Greek and Latin... right?

Honestly, I don't know... I'm just a checkmated atheist.

Those sound like the languages they always use in movies for the Black Magic, Black Magic is from Santa, why would good Christians speak evil tongues???

What was this thread about again?

 

[Lexxi]

Um, your image "visualizes" 18 inches, not a foot. So you'll need to imagine 3520 of those units for a mile, which is weirder and still probably meaningless.

Yeah, that's the part where I mentioned Google giving you the correct answer. Part of that also is asking the correct question. I asked it to visualize a step.

 

[Lexxi]

Those sound like the languages they always use in movies for the Black Magic, Black Magic is from Santa, why would good Christians speak evil tongues???

What was this thread about again?

The thread is about: Santa is an American.

 

[Lori Claremont]

The thread is about: Santa is an American.

He's not! He's Canadian!!