Either ~4.55 L (imperial) or ~3.79 L (US).

Ugh. Why do they do this to us?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallon

You’d think they’d change DNA test methodologies so this sort of thing doesn’t happen again

Can someone who feels pain everyday (uses imperial) explain wtf HL/17 is supposed to mean?

Missed opportunity

Careful, if it reaches a critical trensity it’ll collapse into a transularity, nothing will be able to escape transverse its transitational field not even light

I feel like I’m not on this sub enough to get the joke. Are we referring to the Tuvix incident?

This comment is way too far down.

Thanks for sending this through

This is gonna sound harsh, but if the Facebook is active but the website isn’t, then I’m probably not gonna bother.

I’m organising within my union in conjuction with other left leaning orgs (don’t wish to share which one for privacy).

Really appreciate your work in sharing these resources though and taking the time to find the archive links and emails for those interested.

The difference is Trump is not even bothering with the pretence lol

Great frogs think alike ❤️

Just letting you know the Australia link seems to be broken.

“Magic system” is a bit of an oxymoron

This is just the currently accepted terminology in world building: https://rebeccashedd.com/2024/10/25/the-worldbuilders-toolkit-building-a-magic-system/

I’m just extending this to sci-fi also, as have many others, because they’re basically the same thing, only that the sci-fi magic systems are vaugely based on real-life science (but vary wildly how closely).

Think Stargate with their loosey-goosey ancients and accession, vs the much more grounded The Expanse.

I’m just not a fan of magic systems without any rules at all.

Hence why I find supernatural stories less interesting, which streaming services, book shops, and movie theatres, frustratingly categorise under fantasy. They are very different from sci-fi and fantasy, in my opinion.

If your magic is purely “mysterious”, that’s boring, and lazy story-telling (In my opinion).

Just joking around, but yeah, I personally enjoy what I call “supernatural” stories less than sci-fi and fantasy with proper world-building

Soft magic systems aren’t any fun. Change my mind.

Christianity, stranger things and paranormal activity are equally as uninteresting to me because it’s “because I said so”. Boooooooo, come up with some rules for your world.

Can we make a new category of fiction called “supernatural” SEPARATE from sci-fi and fantasy? Thanks, that would be nice.

I’ll begrudgingly accept this reality over the striking songs, because I also like non-disney star wars + Andor.

Man I hate having to make that distinction.

Look what they did to ma boy 😭

Depends on the culture. With the Chinese it’s all about insisting, or being a sneaky bastard so they can’t refuse.

Steven He summarises the feeling well: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zoHztpjPFEE

Oh no, you’re trying to steal $7!

Hey, can you guys actually do something about this? Kind regards, a citizen of the provinces…

Oh. No. This is not pleasant news at all haha

Swiss use ’ as a thousands separator

TIL

Appreciate your response friend. I look forward to a day where we standardise this, but we probably never will (and that’s probably fine haha)

As cursed number formats go, India is the worst that comes to my mind:

• European languages: 123,456,789 (groups of 10³)
• East Asia: 1,2345,6789 (groups of 10⁴)

Logical smooth sailing.

• India: 12,34,56,789

0_0 Why must you do this to me?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system

I’m not a fan of how this isn’t standardised across the world either.

It obviously isn’t a big deal, but he’s my counter argument for fun.

Commas are the more logical option as they already serve as breaks within a sentence.

It’s fairly common across many languages for punctuation to use commas for short breaks within a sentence, and periods/full stops to be used to finish a sentence. It’s so common because even languages that didn’t use these symbols becore, have now adopted it (Chinese comes to mind).

Commas as a separator within the same number fit better into this existing structure, in my opinion.

Dots being used for decimals seems more consistent with this system also, since the difference between units and negative powers feels greater than just seperating digits into groups.

Further (without having actually looked at statistics on this, I could be wrong about this) it’s only Europe who use dots to separate groupings of digits, and commas for decimals.

If this is in fact the case, you (assuming you’re European) ought to switch to the majority’s system so we can have consistency.

Fair is fair ;)

Edit to add: I’m Australian

This option is reserved for the billionaires