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[-] lud@lemm.ee 2 points 11 hours ago
[-] grozzle@lemm.ee 11 points 11 hours ago

nobody is measuring people to a tenth of a millimeter.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 2 hours ago

4channers who blame their lack of muff action on their diminutive height are.

[-] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 10 hours ago

No, but it doesn't matter. I just provided the exact measurements because I was copy pasting anyways.

[-] grozzle@lemm.ee 6 points 10 hours ago

When the original value is only precise to plus or minus half an inch, it makes no sense whatsoever to do a conversion that's a hundred times more precise.

[-] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 9 hours ago

It's more precise and took no extra effort. 🤷

Why is it bothering you so much?

[-] grozzle@lemm.ee 8 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

It's not more precise. A man says he's 6'2".

Sure. If he's anywhere between 6'1½" and 6'2½", that's true.

You say he's 198.12cm tall. The range of this being true is now thinner than a needle. It has gone far beyond what anyone actually measures. In over 99% of cases, it's not true, and if it is, it won't be for long, because the human body isn't nearly that consistent from breath to breath.

The conversion with spurious false precision has made the number go from true to not true.

The man is six foot two, yes, true. The man is 198.12cm - no he isn't.

[-] di_Bonaventura@futurology.today 4 points 8 hours ago

This is exactly right. 👏🏼

[-] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 8 hours ago

It really doesn't though.

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