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[–] [email protected] 148 points 1 year ago (3 children)

No different than any other project the PM/PO team cooks up. Tons of work for no user base.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why... why is the world like this?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because the world is seen and directed by layers upon layers of abstractions that get divorced from reality but do give monetary benefits when manipulated in some way.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

Sigh... too true.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Our sorrow, despondency, and terror are their sustenance.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not true, space agencies will use it... once.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

until they lose a multi billion dollar mission because of conversion errors

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

It's pretty much a requirement now to use the metric system for everything.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine if Americans use a different unit system for time 😱

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Unix is for commies. We'll run our clocks the way Britain ran its coinage! 32 shillings to the third hour, four hours in a pound, 4.3 in a guinea. And of course 10 shekels in a pound, 7 to the guinea. To account for relativity of course.

Show me one flaw. Freedom time bitches!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ok so now they must split it all into 10 timezones? 😂

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I will use moontime. Anybody wants to schedule bullshit meetings will have to commit to figuring out when actually works for them.