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  • The meter is defined by the distance light travels in a specific fraction of a second. It may have been initially defined by a rough estimate but it (and all metric measurements) are now fixed to universal constants.

    Also the foot is currently defined exclusively as 0.3048 meters, so you are already using metric.

  • It's less "defending copy-write laws" and more "pointing out that the already unfair laws are being applied disproportionately".

    Copy-write laws are still laughably bad, but now they only apply to us.

  • Wikipedia seems to corroborate the entry.

    In an entry for the second month, sixth day of the same year (March 11, 889) titled For the Love of a Cat, Uda gives a detailed and humorous description of the physical characteristics of his cat and goes on to ascribe her a yin and yang spirituality.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanpy%C5%8D_Gyoki

  • The standard way to streak a plate involves creating a resevoir of the sample you are studying, then using a sterile tool to streak through that at a steep angle. Then you streak through the first streak with another sterile tool, and so on and so forth.

    As you streak through lines, the amount of bacteria pulled along is reduced until you are able to isolate individual colonies.

  • True. You can shoot lasers and such through a lot of things, but I am trying to describe a phenomenon in relatively simple language without getting too bogged down in the technical details. The question was about flowing liquids, so I assumed it was understood that that was what I was talking about.

  • Sound is transferred through a medium literally as a wave. When you get right down to the core of it, the wave requires movement within the medium to transmit.

    So it might help to conceptualize it not as "Liquid cannot move faster than the speed of sound in it's medium" but more like "The speed of sound in a liquid medium is defined by the speed at which energy can propagate in that system, which includes motion."

  • In Japan they have rail lines that seamlessly integrate with the metro system of large cities.

    And even if cars for rural users is necessary, their driving experience will be much smoother if all the other people have good access to transit.

  • If I ride the disney cruise line am I a sailor?

    If we allow space tourists to count as astronauts then it diminishes the actual heroes like Gagarin, Shepard, Tereshkova, Armstrong, or Sally Ride.

    Plus. I really don't want to have to call Branson or Bezos astronauts.

  • Revoking citizenship is a bad president.

    He's actively aiding and abbeding the government of a hostile foreign nation that has vocally demanded we scede our sovereignty and surrender our territory to them.

    He should be charged with treason.

  • US Authoritarianism @lemmy.world

    "A Weird Wave"

  • Which of these candidates do you think will be more willing to have their minds changed with protests and petitions?

    Nothing is going to be easy or perfect, but we can at least choose the most likely candidate that is slightly more aligned with our desired outcome and then fight for what is needed.

  • He can vote too

    Jump
  • It's percentage of the entire population, if you organized everyone from lowest to highest IQ, what percentage of the entire population would you need to include for them to be in the top. It's a little clearer when a point of interest is near the top. E.G. "person is in the top 1% of people in terms of wealth."

    A less kind way to say it is '91% of people have a higher IQ than this person'.