Yes, it’s from a book called “Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader” and that book was resting on a closed toilet seat in a nation that only kind of uses the metric system in certain situations… however, you’d be surprised how much you can learn after a single visit to any local fast-food joint!

  • brem@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    413·
    3 天前

    Earth squeezes and stretches and wobbles & rotates. Time as we know it changes in length because it is the common nature of “time” to become chaos which then becomes order. Hylomorphism or Impermanence is to Entropy as measurement is to the fundamentals of size. Who is to say that the distance between two points should be constrained to the barriers of human existence & understanding. All we have is pictures & words, maybe a few trinkets that will become dust that becomes something else that attempts to quantify reality.

    • Hapankaali@lemmy.worldEnglish
      283·
      3 天前

      Earth squeezes and stretches and wobbles & rotates.

      Sort of, yeah, Earth is a bit wider around the equatorial axis than around the polar one.

      Time as we know it changes in length because it is the common nature of “time” to become chaos which then becomes order. Hylomorphism or Impermanence is to Entropy as measurement is to the fundamentals of size. Who is to say that the distance between two points should be constrained to the barriers of human existence & understanding. All we have is pictures & words, maybe a few trinkets that will become dust that becomes something else that attempts to quantify reality.

      This reads like an unfortunate confluence of psychosis, psychoactive substances and LLMs.

      • brem@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        62·
        3 天前

        While I can’t speak for my chemical imbalances, I can certainly assure you I am %100 not a fucking algorithm or some lame ass excuse for manufactured digital intelligence…

      • brem@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        120·
        2 天前

        Sort of, yeah, Earth is a bit wider around the equatorial axis than around the polar one.

        Thanks for explaining that a fucking ball is easier to squeeze at it’s widest part, genius.

        • MartianSands@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          141·
          2 天前

          What are you talking about? That isn’t what they said, and a ball doesn’t have a widest point. That’s more or less the definition of a ball.

          The distance between the two poles is smaller than the distance from one side to the other following the equator. The earth isn’t quite a ball, it’s a bit squashed because of way it spins

          • brem@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
            211·
            2 天前

            Okay, a ball is equally wide but sometimes it gets squeezed and becomes tallish

            • wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              2·
              19 小时前

              Since it seems like you’re confused about the precise deformation of earth: the earth is wider around the equator. It’s not being squished but, rather, being flung apart by its spinning on its axis, like spinning pizza dough. Gravity just keeps it the same shape.

              If you’re interested, look up “geodesy”

    • creamfresh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      3 天前

      To agree on a unified measurement system for things like engineering, science and commerce across nations and cultures is a question of practicability though, not pseudophilosophical ramblings.

      • brem@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        34·
        3 天前

        I say we measure everything with how angry it makes the French.