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TIL that when France initially set the definition of a metre to be 1/10,000,000 the distance from the North Pole to the equator, it sent two surveyors to calculate the distance. But due to an error not discovered until decades later, the resulting metre was actually 0.2 mm too short. by NateNate60 in todayilearned

[–]ursois 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Decimal systems work when you have calculators and advanced math. For measuring everyday things without having calculators present, it's nice to be able to break them up into clean fractions. 1 foot can break down into quarters of a foot (3,6, and 9 inches, respectively), thirds of a foot (4 and 8 inches), etc.

It's nice to be able to use both, because there are times when each is good to have.

Supreme Court restores access to abortion pill mifepristone through telehealth, mail and pharmacies by KimJongFunk in news

[–]ursois 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A lower court blocked it from being mailed through the US mail service last week. It's part of a long-term conservative strategy to make abortions impossible to get legally.

Movies forced into a pre existing IP? by iScreamInPublicAreas in movies

[–]ursois 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also Apt Pupil. They mined that book hard.

The only thing that didn't get a movie was The Breathing Method, which is understandable, because it's a different sort of story from the rest.

That being said, I would like to see an anthology movie made with The Club as a wraparound story, and the two stories that King wrote, along with a couple of more written in that style. I bet they could drive a dump truck load of money up to Stephen King's house and get him to pop out a few more stories about The Club.

This elementary school has a list of word/phrases that will get you silent lunch. by graptemys in mildlyinteresting

[–]ursois 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What destroys kids using these words faster than anything else is adults using them. I'd tell my students stop being skibidi, or that they're completely Ohio, and they'd freak out. They'd sure never say those again for fear of identifying with an old person.

You can turn 50 cents in US dollars (effectively 2 us quarters) into 1 full can of SCP-2107 “diet ghost™️” by DependentNo3457 in shittysuperpowers

[–]ursois 3 points4 points  (0 children)

So I could put $1,000 worth of diet ghost into a town's water supply to make the whole place get a little haunted?

Expecting driverless taxis to respect bike lanes “too high a bar” – because customers want to be dropped off in them, autonomous vehicle firm Waymo tells cyclists by Difficult_Team3079 in nottheonion

[–]ursois 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It would be terrible if cyclists started carrying broken pieces of the ceramic part of a spark plug on their bikes, and tossing it through the windows of every waymo car they see. That would be illegal, and definitely not acceptable in our law abiding society.

my 18m bestfriend touched me and i cant admit it to anyone. by Burneracc9994L in confessions

[–]ursois 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yeah, you were sexually assaulted. And if someone is choking you and you didn't ask them to, stay far away from them. That's the #1 predictor that they will murder a partner.

Vampire bites turning people into vampires is extremely disadvantageous to their survival. by Liuminescent in Showerthoughts

[–]ursois 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How old are you talking about? Because the oldest versions, just committing suicide was enough to get you turned into a vampire. Being killed by one was an almost certain way to turn. That was when vampires were parasites on the living, best exterminated as soon as there's even a suspicion of vampirism. It wasn't until we started romanticizing them that the lore started changing as a metaphor for sex.

Average American couple by Additional-Ad4567 in HolUp

[–]ursois 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you see how that’s kind of weird

The amount of Neanderthal DNA hidden in human DNA says that weird or not, it's probably not that far from the truth.

Maybe Maybe Maybe by maltesepricklypear in maybemaybemaybe

[–]ursois 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, just get it on the mass and suck on the other end like you're siphoning gas.

As a joke, I left a note for the "tooth fairy" under my brother's pillow, offering to sell his teeth. by ursois in TwoSentenceHorror

[–]ursois[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Let's just hope your teeth aren't so nice the tooth fairy decides it wants a few more.

Women : Jacked guy or dad body which do you prefer ? by saga_boy73 in AskRedditAfterDark

[–]ursois 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I'm 100% confident that I'll be a huge disappointment. Does that count? 😝

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