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[Lord Shonus]

Because of course providing size to the nearest 0,1mm is important! 

It actually is. It is the easiest way to make sure you're complying with the regulations of all countries you might be dealing with. Particularly in the case you mention, because the metric measurement is the one that is most often cared about.

[Egan_BW]

I can imagine a situation where I'm inconvenienced by a fan being 8 millimeters wider than specified, so I'd say yeah that's for the best. Better to give the most precise measure, yeah.

[bloop_bleep]

My 52" diameter ceiling fan has, not surprisingly, both English and Spanish text on the packaging.

The WTF is that people just blindly apply conversion factors: the box says it's a "132,08 cm" diameter fan.

Because of course providing size to the nearest 0,1mm is important! 

(Mostly it's just another sign of people being lazy in very simple aspects of life.  Details matter, even when they "don't!")

You have found what may just be the weirdest hill to die on.

[McTraveller]

No, this is a more weird hill (where are they, anyway?):

I can imagine a situation where I'm inconvenienced by a fan being 8 millimeters wider than specified, so I'd say yeah that's for the best. Better to give the most precise measure, yeah.

As my high school physics teacher said: "What's an order of magnitude among friends? Minus 1 point!"  (Read closely! It wasn't 8 mm...)

Spoiler: pedantry (click to show/hide)

The one measurement was 52 inches. This is two significant digits - a precision of one part per 50 or so.  The 132.08 just multiplies 52 by 2.54 - but 132.08 gives you an implied precision of one part per 13000.  I guarantee the tolerance on that part is probably ±5mm, so why quote tenths of millimeters in the dimension?

Now do you see why this is a silly way to quote the measurement?  Technically they should have just said "130cm", but if they said "132cm" I'd probably have given them a pass, since 1cm significant digit is close enough to 1/2 an inch error, and you'd assume a quoted 52" is within a half inch of actually being 52". Plus if you got a meter stick you'd be close to 132, and with a yardstick close to 52"... you'd need a pretty fancy tool to confirm 132.08; one part per 10000 is fairly difficult to measure, and way beyond the tolerances of a consumer-assembled ceiling fan.

[Frumple]

Starting to wonder if this cat has issues with object permanence or something. Like, earlier was more understandable, but she's nearly a year old and still basically incapable of recognizing the dog after a grooming trip, despite having experienced the process several times at this point.

On one hand it's kinda' funny to see her bow up and be terrified of something she was trying to play with a few hours earlier, but on the other hand this period where I have to keep an eye on them to make sure they don't try to kill each other when the dog acts normally and the cat has no idea what the hell this thing is that's getting close to her and attacks is getting kinda' annoying.

Dunno if it's the reduced hair, bath, or smell of other dogs/cats at the groomer or what, but the cat is just... completely incapable of recognizing the dog after he's been shaved down.

[TamerVirus]

Burger King in Thailand introduces REAL CHEESEBURGER.



This is literally a joke item I’d make in Papa’s Burgeria like a decade ago.
20 SLICES OF PROCESSED CHEESE

[Frumple]

I mean, I've ate stuff like that before, too, yeah. Monocheese is boring as hell, though, if you're making the god sandwich of cheese mountain you gotta' have a bunch of different kinds of cheese in there. Different preps, too, get shredded cheese in there, those little cheese cubes, drizzle cheese sauce over it, etc. The attempt is appreciated but the execution, disappointing.

[hector13]

Huw Edwards!?

[Frumple]

Dream brain just decided to wake me up from nap by presenting within the dream, the "Infinitely Complex Hyperzebra". As might be deduced from the name, it's a self-propagating/expanding >3d (initially) hypercube shaped zebra. My head kinda' hurts just trying to remember what it looks like, but it shortly ended up sorta' like a ball of yarn made of zebra parts.

Relevant observers on the time of the appearance of the hyperzebra reacted with shock, then abject terror, as its impossible evershifting form became steadily more complex and began to grow -- the implication immediately obvious to all in the dreamspace was that this impossible thing was the end of all things, as it would eventually expand in complexity until all realities could no longer maintain existence under its metaphysical and literal weight.

... anyway, it came to be because someone had a sort of low-level magic transforming tool thing. The original owner was just using to do simple stuff like rope, but then they gave it to someone else and things took a turn for impossible geometries. Pray we never actually manage to observe the terrible majesty of the infinitely complex hyperzebra.

[Loud Whispers]

I mean, I've ate stuff like that before, too, yeah. Monocheese is boring as hell, though, if you're making the god sandwich of cheese mountain you gotta' have a bunch of different kinds of cheese in there. Different preps, too, get shredded cheese in there, those little cheese cubes, drizzle cheese sauce over it, etc. The attempt is appreciated but the execution, disappointing.

Yeah. Literally go three cheese minimum and you got a beast sandwich

[King Zultan]

If you're gonna make a sandwich from pure cheese you gotta at least make it from good cheese, not that processes shit.

Infinitely Complex Hyperzebra

That sounds pretty cool but at the same time it sounds terrifying.

[zhijinghaofromchina]

I had a nightmare yesterday that I became the translator of the president Xi and chatted with the Ukrainian president Zelenskyy. I made an incredible mistake that made my contry caught in the whrilpool of war .

[Loud Whispers]

I had a nightmare yesterday that I became the translator of the president Xi and chatted with the Ukrainian president Zelenskyy. I made an incredible mistake that made my contry caught in the whrilpool of war .

That sucks man, but if it makes you feel better - something like this nearly happened before between NATO and the USSR!

[Frumple]

... in the process of machine translating a pokemon mod for a fairly niche indie game (Legend Creatures, the mod's the most subscribed one on the steam workshop, heh), I've discovered that bulbapedia is, like... incredibly thorough? Doing an edit check to make the pokemon abilities match official english terminology, I'm finding some swarm of dedicated people have dutifully included the chinese names of every single move, ability, and so on, in the entire series. You can plug in the name of a move in basically any language that pokemon's been officially released in and search will cheerfully pull up whatever the thing is in english.

It's incredibly helpful at this juncture and I wish I had noticed before starting the initial edit pass instead of after I'd spent hours puzzling over google's output to match stuff with officially localized terms, but mostly it's just kinda' good-weird folks have actually been that careful about adding information to the wiki. It had to involve several thousand pages worth of edits and additions, which is a hell of a lot of effort for such a relatively small addition to a primarily english language wiki.

[dragdeler]

Plated copper relief.

When did we ever consider zinc or lead more noble than copper?!

No it must be tin, which surprisingly is more expensive than copper actually, which means the layer of oxides and filth between them must be bronze, that's pretty cool actually... how weird to use copper for the structural integrity and tin for the finish, how weird that it doesnt stick more than it does.