viking

joined 2 years ago
MODERATOR OF
[–] viking 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

A gram is not the base unit, it started with one meter (hence, metric).

Kilo means thousand in Latin, so 1000 meters became one kilometer (aka, one thousand meters), and when they need smaller units, they took to Latin again, simply because the language was en vogue for science:

Deca (ten): Decimeter (dm, nowadays hardly used, but it exists) = 0.1m

Centum (hundred): Centimeter (cm) = 0.01m

Mille (thousand): milimiter (mm) 0.001m

Weights were then adopted from the dimensions based on practicality, i.e. one liter was a common enough volume that people could use it in a household, and it's defined by 1dm height x 1dm length x 1dm width. Or 10cm10cm10cm (same thing, but the base notation was units of one).

[–] viking 3 points 1 month ago

In the first place they must not be compromised with dead man switches from the US.

[–] viking 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

NewPipe as well, without any update either.

[–] viking 7 points 1 month ago

What's that supposed to be? Never seen those before, and I'm in my 40s.

[–] viking 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's a nice concept for interpersonal relationships regardless of the setting, but it's got limited applicability in a results driven setting.

[–] viking 3 points 1 month ago

Nice, another of those shit platforms nobody needs is dead.

[–] viking 2 points 1 month ago

Or too smart to bite the hand that feeds. Either way, whoever they'd send as a replacement won't be better, but possibly worse.

[–] viking 15 points 1 month ago

Incompetent? That's by design.

[–] viking 14 points 1 month ago

They don't care about porn, it's a gateway to restrict vpn ownership countrywide and take anonymity away from users.

[–] viking 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

No need, it's good to have a mouthpiece to the orange overlord telling him how shit his petty attempts at stirring shit are holding up.

[–] viking 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You're only seeing the colds that made it through the defenses, without having any means of measuring the ones your immune system successfully blocked or kicked out before they could take hold.

So your statistics are flawed.

[–] viking 8 points 1 month ago

Every time I'm in a mall or restaurant and see a flock of yelling and otherwise poorly behaved kids and their useless parents.

view more: ‹ prev next ›