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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • The video in question directly addresses that chart, correctly poining out that it’s quite misleading in the implication that the measurements on it are ever converted between in any context ever. But no, there is no context where someone converts between feet and miles, or uses sticks or hands or fingers or palms or chains or all those other units I promise you haven’t heard of. Imperial is bad, but it’s not that bad.

    Similarly, it is completely irrelevant to know that a gallon is an integer number of cubic inches at all, that is a conversion that is simply never done.







  • It’s misleading because saying “search the computer” implies a breadth of scan that isn’t present. That’s like saying a website “searches the computer” to grab cookies generated by that site; technically true but worded to be misleading.

    To be clear this is bad, but it’s important to be clear when explaining why it is bad to avoid creating resentment when the person you are explaining it to looks deeper into it themself and finds that it’s not as bad as your explanation was implying.