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reptilia2003

i really think some of you are just lazy…like omg what do you mean I have to do the dishes again I just did them yesterday?!?

andrealikesbooks

Yes! You literally have to show up to vote every 4 years! We have elections every 4 years! People died or were assaulted or were thrown in prison trying to get the right to vote. The literally very least you could possibly do to honor that work is go to a building in your neighborhood and push a button.

#voting is a basic adult task you have to do regularly like filing taxes and getting your oil changed and cleaning your bathroom 🤷‍♀️#no it won’t solve everything but my god you can show up to a church or school or whatever every couple years for 30 minutes. jesus #books

mixelation

we as a society have GOT to accept that it is okay if we get blocked. you do not have the right to interact with every single person on the internet. "but then i can't interact with their content" yes that is the point "but i didn't do anything" no one owes you an explanation and you don't have to have "done something" to be blocked. let it go

xexir

party poisson takes the stage

zxid

collection

fishlung8877

depsidase

ralfmaximus

They've all got matching gear & uniforms. Expensive!

vadergf

I feel like someone is standing next to me talking about how I'm dead

rudolphsboyfriend

The chemical they put on ants and all the other ants think they're dead that's what happened to tumblr except the chemical is unmarketability

bisexualalexmercer

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i hope Elon musk KILLS himself and DIES a thousand DEATHS. and i hope every other billionaire a very merry DIE DIE DEATH KILL MURDER DEATH KILL

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theoreocat

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hagiomoto

OCism is also killing good writings. Because writers are creating characters first before having themes and goals. That's why your story sucked.

You have a character sheet and all sorts of details but you can't write a plot to save your life. Your pacing is dogshit.

deepwang27

elizabethanism

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000) - Jonas Mekas

ryebreadgf

just learned americans have different standard paper sizes than everyone else. what do you MEAN you don’t have A4 as the standard. what do you mean your standard paper size isn’t even the same size as an A4. apparently it’s like. ’letter’ and ’legal’ and whatever else. help!!!

ryebreadgf

this is so scary

huggingtentacles

That has to be false. That's misinformation hold on

huggingtentacles

holy fucking shit

hydro-dragon

So I work in engineering; and always wondered who used these weird “A” sizes I’d see in large printer settings that I’ve never seen any company even have paper in stock for. Now I know.

And now I have to be one of those obnoxious US Americans because WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU USE THESE WEIRD UNEVEN DIMENSIONS!? Even in metric most of the “A” settings are an annoying ratio! 210x297mm? 594x841mm!? What’s the point of using such small units of measurement if you’re not going to make sensible sizes!?

psychuan

because the largest standard paper size is A0 which is exactly one square metre of paper with an aspect ratio of the square root of two. this gives us a nice simple measurement of area for the paper as well as allows us to do the halving/doubling magic. A1 is 0.5m², A2 is 0.25m² etc.

derinthescarletpescatarian

The halving/doubling magic that psychaun refers to is the fact that you can get each paper in the series by cutting the previous one in half. I fold some A4 paper in half, I have an A5 booklet. I tape two A4 pieces together along their long side, I have an A3 piece. Each piece of paper is half the area of the previous and half the width of the previous' length with a length the same as the previous' width. The aspect ratio is exactly the same for every size. This makes it very easy to resize things, fold things inside each other, and calculate the size of paper you've never used before based on its name. "I can resize this to fit any other paper size because the aspect ratio is identical," "I can fold a standard size in half to get the next standard size down" and "the area I'm working with can be multiplied up to fit into a metre squared without any messy fractions of leftover paper" are all far more practical considerations for a paper size than "the millimetre length of this paper size isn't a round number".

earhartsease

fyi there are also B sizes in paper, which fit in between the A sizes - less often used but good for book covers and stuff

a Bn size is the mean between An and An-1

and then C sizes for envelopes, such that a C4 envelope fits an unfolded sheet of A4 etc

spectrallydistracted

Reblogging because this is something I find interesting.

Also because it’s another example of how the United States has to do things differently—to its detriment.

vaspider

This is a bad take, friend.

The US doesn't "have to do things different" for the sake of doing things differently, as your words imply, nor is the sentence above about who uses what paper fully correct, either*.

The reason that the US (and Canada, most of Central America, Chile, and the Philippines) use different standard sizes* from Europe is probably pretty easy to figure out when you think about things like "there's a big fucking ocean between two of those places, but not between all of the countries in Europe."

The standard size of paper, according to the American Forest and Paper Association, comes from the days of manual paper-making, and their assertion that 44" is about the length of the average experienced vatsman's comfortable grasp. So a sheet is 1/4" that length. The US standardized its own paper according to what legacy equipment it had, and keeps those standards because even today, paper tends to not be shipped back and forth between Europe and the US unless it has to be, because paper and books are really fucking heavy, so why should either one of us change our standards? Doing so would require massive amounts of capital investment, and frankly, we like our paper sizes just fine. It's really not to our detriment at all. We don't really import a lot of paper, and in fact, we export a lot of it.

American paper sizes are also half of each previous size, it's just that our base is a rectangle, not a square, uses imperial measurements, and reaches back to measurements based on manual paper-making. Sure, we could spend billions of dollars changing our standards to meet that of countries that don't supply us with this good, creating a massive amount of industrial and consumer waste as everything from paper manufacturing mills and industrial printing presses to plastic binders and hole punches at schools all become garbage, but... why? We also use different standard sizes of snack food bags, based on how our industries developed, but there's no actual reason for those things to be standardized, so why, exactly, should they be? Because it bothers someone who doesn't use our machines and didn't know until today that it was different? That's not a real reason. That's just "haha the US sucks and is dumb and irrational."

No, it's actually super fucking rational when you remember that most European countries are smaller than US states, and we're standardized across the places where paper actually moves back and forth in massive bulk on a regular basis. You know: our own states, and Canada, and not Europe, on account of this being a huge fucking continent and paper being incredibly heavy and expensive to transport across oceans. That's why it's governed by the American National Standards Institute, which also governs or governed stuff like thread standards for nuts and bolts & exposure standards for film. The latter had the ANSI standard become the ISO standard, which is a great example of technology which was developed more recently and more specialized and thus not so deeply rooted and hard to change being much more possible to standardize.

tl;dr: all industrial standards like paper sizes have valid and long-argued reasons why they're like that, and unless you're coughing up the solution for changing something with hundreds of years of built-up infrastructure without breaking all of the industries that depend on that standard, the cash to do it, and the reason why all the old equipment that can't be converted should become garbage... fuck off, man, and leave us alone. There are real problems in the world, go solve those.

*While many Mesoamerican countries have officially adopted ISO standards, ANSI standard paper is most commonly in use day to day.

honestmagpie

This is really interesting!

Genuine question: if the US somehow switched to metric measures, would that prompt the need to change the paper sizes in any way? I would think ‘no’ but I’m sure there are elements I’m not thinking about.

vaspider

1. We're not gonna.

2. No.

daysundoing

is being arrogant and thoughtless an American kink or something?

Do you really think America is so isolated that it gets to uniquely ignore the rest of the world?

Explain fucking Australia then?

Who isn't in Europe? Who is actually a continent, with no land borders unlike America. Who, much to my annoyance, has been more economically tied to the US than Europe since WWII (and its own neighbours since long before that). Who suffered a century of using American typewriters with American sized paper. Who also has their own paper industry like quite a lot of the world (though which still uses predominantly American designed and built machines) that creates massive kilometres long rolls of paper, like the America industry, that isn't limited by the length of someone's arm and is chopped down later.

Even with all those similarities we managed to switch to DIN 476 in 1974, the year before ISO 216 was created, along with a whole list of other countries that also aren't in Europe and also have massive ties to US industry (Japan 1951, Israel 1954, NZ 1963). We even have American made home and business printers that normally work with ISO paper seemlessly but get confused when we print a document made by Americans.

Also the UN switched in 1975. You know the big bureaucratic organisation that uses a lot of paper and functionally exists solely in New York. It can somehow get standardized paper while dealing with American industry.

This isn't a rant about paper. It's about American exceptionalism.

vaspider

You literally answered all of your own questions, jackass.

fred-the-dinosaur

Quite a lot of speciality industries outside of America still use their own old imperial measurements too.

Watercolour paper and most art papers are still sold in subdivisions of the big old arm width standard (called double elephant) in the UK, Japanese printmaking paper has the Hosho sheet and its subdivisions. I'm pretty sure newsprint still comes in its own formats etc. etc.

Anyone who's a big paper fan should look up their most local paper mills. There's probably cool paper being made somewhere near you. You too can experience the delight of a double elephant.

dankmemeuniversity

xelayxes

@matzahball

dracophile

For a second I didn’t realize it meant “high” as in a stoner–I thought “High Geologist” was like a rank of geologist or something and he was insulted you would challenge him to naming stones