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Skullvalanche<p>Look, I'm sure there are reasons to ever have a logarithmic scale for measuring things, but there's a lot of scales out there in the world which are completely unintuitive to humans when it comes to quickly understanding something.</p><p>Decibels? Utterly unintuitive.<br>Earthquakes? nope.<br>Scoville scale? garbage.<br>Schmidt sting pain index? useless.</p><p>I have invented the Skullvalanche Scale Usability Index (SSUI) to rank how useful these scales are.</p><p>Rankings are 1 to 10.<br>1 being "nobody would understand this, possibly including the person who invented it"<br>10 being “anyone who can count to 10 would understand this"</p><p>Now I will rank the aforementioned scales.</p><p>Decibels: 3<br>Earthquakes: 4<br>Scovilles: 3<br>Schmidt: 2</p><p><a href="https://gladtech.social/tags/scales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scales</span></a> <a href="https://gladtech.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://gladtech.social/tags/measurements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>measurements</span></a></p>
Paul Houle<p>🔔 BioSonics spectroscopy can 'listen' to the sounds made by individual viruses</p><p><a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-01-biosonics-spectroscopy-individual-viruses.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2025-01-biosonic</span><span class="invisible">s-spectroscopy-individual-viruses.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/virus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>virus</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/optics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>optics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/acoustics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>acoustics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/instruments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>instruments</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/measurements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>measurements</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/resonance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>resonance</span></a></p>
Sally Strange<p>Today I learned that an acre, today defined as 43,560 square feet, was originally a measure of the area a yoke of oxen could plow in one day. Wikipedia says that would be 8 oxen. Anyway, that's why an acre is not square, but was traditionally a rectangle: one chain (66 ft) by one furlong (660 ft). An acre that was square would be ~208.7 ft on each edge</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Measurements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Measurements</span></a></p>
Lydia Schoch<p>When I first moved up to Canada, it took me a while to get used to measuring various food items in grams or kilograms. </p><p>Now I can visualize what 500 or 1000 grams of something looks like, but it feels weird to picture them in ounces or pounds. 😄</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Measurements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Measurements</span></a></p>
Mike<p>So is time base 60, or base 12, or base 10, or some confusing mixture? This would be the place to get an answer, I bet. I used to do payroll and make time calculations all the time, but it always involved mental gymnastics. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/time" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>time</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/measurements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>measurements</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/number" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>number</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>When <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> needed to value his <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpTower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpTower</span></a> apt for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/insurance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>insurance</span></a> in 2010, he personally showed an appraiser around the unit for 15 mins but ushered him out before the expert could take <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/measurements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>measurements</span></a>. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpOrg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpOrg</span></a> then declared the 11k-sq-ft unit was 30k-sq-ft, ~3X its actual size.<br>
A few yrs later, expert appraisers told Trump his 70-story office bldg at 40 Wall Street in NYC, near the NYSE, was worth $260M. But Trump claimed in financial docs it was worth nearly $530M, &gt;2X its value.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpTrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpTrial</span></a></p>
PhoenixSerenity<p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Canadians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canadians</span></a> are worried about the rapidly <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/metastasizing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metastasizing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> . For good reason. The impacts are hitting harder and faster - like hundreds of <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/wildfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wildfires</span></a> burning out of control all across our nation right now. Meanwhile, our <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/emissions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>emissions</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/destabilizing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>destabilizing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/GreenhouseGases" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreenhouseGases</span></a> aren't going down enough to stop the <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/ClimateChaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChaos</span></a> from growing ever more dangerous.</p><p><a href="https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/06/08/analysis/blindly-accelerating-oncoming-climate-train" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nationalobserver.com/2023/06/0</span><span class="invisible">8/analysis/blindly-accelerating-oncoming-climate-train</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/graphs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>graphs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/measurements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>measurements</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/ClimateActionNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateActionNow</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Degrowth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Degrowth</span></a></p>
IT News<p>Understanding Measurements &amp; Why They Are Important – Grams, Kilograms, Ounces, Pounds - Grams and kilograms are used to measure the mass or weight of objects. Ounces and ... - <a href="https://readwrite.com/understanding-measurements-why-they-are-important-grams-kilograms-ounces-pounds/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">readwrite.com/understanding-me</span><span class="invisible">asurements-why-they-are-important-grams-kilograms-ounces-pounds/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/measurements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>measurements</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/kilograms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kilograms</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/ounces" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ounces</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/pounds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pounds</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/learn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>learn</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/grams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grams</span></a></p>
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