about 4.9 to 6.2 ft

Hey! Didn’t you just violate your own rule of “0.2 lower resolution”?

You’re right about big numbers losing relevance in our minds, but I don’t think that’s even true for units of measurement. Since all units are arbitrary, they are inherently linked to a mental model with simple maths, quick conversions and rules of thumb. 450 ants is too large to visualize, but 450cm is simply the height where an old chestnut tree’s branches start. There are no 450 distinct centimeters involved in any of that, so you don’t have to keep them in your mind.

Compress down, guesstimate a piece of physical distance, continue with your day. Whether that mental model started as 15 foot or 450 centimeter isn’t really relevant, as long as you have developed a sense for the size of various things in your chosen units, and the units map nicely to other common units you might encounter. If you need any more precision, you take out your tools.

You don’t need to be brave to use mosquito nets.

All measurements are arbitrary. This feels like that Fahrenheit debate where “60 feels natural for room temperature” as if anyone has any idea what number a room should be. A meter is just a chunk of distance about this size (holds hands apart). There’s nothing a foot can add to a measurement that a meter can’t. You’ll need fractions and smaller or bigger units in all real world cases anyway, so having easy conversions is much more useful than a “natural” base unit.

She’s a cannibal looking at a human lobster tank.

cat5 beats wifi in terms of wall penetration though, assuming you penetrated that wall with a drill and then pulled the cat5 through

Oh thank god, I thought for a moment that Kurt Vonnegut wrote like a Tumblr user.

Brian, watch out!

A church service is the unit of church. Most of them will occur on Sundays, but there could be multiple spread over the day. Check your local church schedule and sneak in at the end of the service.

That’s the stuff they serve for free after every church service. Just bring a thermos and ask them to fill 'er up.

90.71847 kg man

This man is 200 imperial pounds, 0 imperial ounces and 0 milligrains.

Brendan “Fatso” Fraser was such a terrible actor in The Whale, you could really tell he had one hand in a KFC bucket at all times. I’d much rather watch my favorite actor Dwayne “The Rock-Solid” Johnson muscle the emotions off the screen with his giant Johnson. Muscle is discipline and discipline is good acting, it is known.

I never know which is which. I’ve read both The Society of the Spectacle and Simulacra and Simulation but I don’t think I understood any of it, so a vague allusion is the best I can do. I understood a lot more of the 2016 documentary HyperNormalization, which is a synthesis of both? (I understood neither, so I’m just guessing there.)

Yes, in fact there’s a whole genre of video essay where people explain how Mr Beast is problematic.

But to be fair, he’s just an extension of the last 30 years of reality tv. Lure some desperate people with a large sum of cash, make them suffer in front of the camera, edit liberally, air for the entertainment of millions.

Additionally, one of the most popular tv shows of the decade is a criticism of exactly this phenomenon. Mr Beast did a whole tv series that tried to be Squid Game unironically, completely missing the moral of the story and spawning another round of criticism. Something something Guy Debord, something Jean Baudrillard something.

The article links a screenrecording of the thread, but it’s a Zuck product so to save you a click:

https://ani.social/pictrs/image/5784eb24-5a52-4f75-91bf-3f9fce9de072.mp4

And a catbox for redundancy: https://files.catbox.moe/a0ug4z.mp4