ValiantDust

I’ve recently learned about bourdaloues. I wonder how many of them had a second life as a gravy boat.

Are you two telling me getting into political arguments on internet forums is not gonna make me the ruler of the world??? I thought I was really getting somewhere here.

(Relevant xkcd)

I’m not sure the Catholic Church would agree that Martin Luther changed everyone’s opinion.

In Germany marital rape is punished in the same way as any other rape since 1997 (which to me always seemed horrifically late). But one of the guys who voted against it is his party’s candidate for the post of Chancellor in the election next year.

Maybe we are not as far beyond these misogynistic worldviews as we like to believe.

I’d prefer if it already was decimal time. As you said it would integrate with the rest of the metric system much more smoothly.

But as a software developer the thought of changing it now gives me anxiety. Time is so much more immediately integrated into systems than distances or currencies.

Much as I love the metric system, I kinda think the moment for changing time units has passed. At the latest when computers became a thing, probably even before that.

And 12 based systems have the advantage of having having many divisors which is very neat as well. You can divide an hour by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30 and 60 and end up with an even number of minutes. Then again with a decimal system fractions wouldn’t be so bad.

For a few glorious years there was an alternative that solved all your problems: The French Revolutionary calendar

10 days per week, 10 hours per day, 100 minutes per hour, 100 seconds per minute.

The French were serious about the decimal system (thanks for the kilograms though).

8 hours in theory. Let’s not forget it has to cross a large part of Germany. I’m sure Deutsche Bahn will work its magic and suddenly it’s 16 hours with four unplanned stops and five hours of uncertainty as to whether you will ever arrive at all.

“I haven’t eaten in 4 hours and 41 minutes and now long for a sandwich with cheese, tomatoes and lettuce” also gets more info across than saying “I’m hungry”, yet people keep using the latter.

Sekhmet seems more appropriate, though depicted with a lion’s head not a housecat’s.

Sekhmet acted as the vengeful manifestation of Ra’s power, the Eye of Ra. Sekhmet is said to breathe fire, and the hot winds of the desert were likened to her breath. She is also believed to cause plagues. (Wikipedia)

She would sort that shit out.

You don’t get it, they are only sluts when they are giving other men attention. When they are giving OP attention, they are graceful, heavenly creatures (who should also give him some sex).

When designing safety features like seat belts or safety harnesses: “Women have these weird anatomical quirks, seems complicated, let’s just ignore it.”