@Jdreben #BlueSky is to #ActivityPub like #MSFTOOXML is to #OpenDocumentFormat. It's too late and it's unnecessary. Due to the underlying profit motive, it's also probably cumbersome. In other words, it's like a massive, self-interested world power introducing #ImperialUnits for measurement in a world where the #MetricSystem is already well entrenched with a claim that "diversity in standards" is useful.

Which, of course, is one of the reasons the rest of us can't have nice things.

If you give 'em more than an inch, they take at least a mile per inch. #demotivational #ImperialUnits

If you give 'em more than an inch, they take a mile per inch. #demotivational #ImperialUnits

Help me identify this #SheetGood?
My #cabinet shelf slides are backed by an approximately 3 inch wide run of *something*. It's not 3/4 #plywood; I have that. It's not 1/2 #MDF; that's a little too thick (but not a lot). So what is it? I don't want to keep buying project panels that are almost right. (I'm trying to add reinforcement that's the same thickness.)
#diy #imperialunits #us #homeimprovement

Heard on my flight in the US today … as mom with her 9 year old daughter boards, kid points to the information on the door of the plane … “Mom! Did you see that. It’s the Metric System! They measure distance in kilometers!” Not sure to be entirely geeking out about a 9-year old noticing units , laughing or crying at the state of reluctance to embrace the rest of the world #MetricSystem #ImperialUnits

Heard on my flight in the US today … as mom with her 9 year old daughter boards, kid points to the information on the door of the plane … “Mom! Did you see that. It’s the Metric System! They measure distance in kilometers!” Not sure to be entirely geeking out about a 9-year old noticing units , laughing or crying at the state of reluctance to embrace the rest of the world #MetricSystem #ImperialUnits

TIL: the US uses two types of feet (unit of measurement). :-) One is the original U.S. survey foot from 1893. The second is the international foot from 1959, which is slightly shorter.

That causes all sorts of survey measurement problems. But now they'll going to standardise to one foot.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/18/science/foot-surveying-metrology-dennis.html

#USA #Measurement #Foot #ImperialUnits