• Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip
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    8 months ago

    i mean a lot of measurements are arbitrary necause their manmade. thats creation of measurements in a nutshell. they exist to give people context to conpare to. time is a manmade construct, unit of length is a manmade construct. unit of weight is a manmade construct.

    for instance with 1 kilo, tell me the last time a regular person had platinum-iridium ingot. its completely arbitrary.

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      8 months ago

      tell me the last time a regular person had platinum-iridium ingot

      What, you don’t?

      But yeah, I agree, units are made up. I mean, why is the boiling point at 100C and not any other number? Someone made it up.
      I’m just saying the argument “0F is really cold” is just as true as -10F is really cold or +10F is really cold.