Lol! The US government is a bad joke…

Is this the Onion?

I mean, I wouldn’t doubt it’s real, but it surely sounds like a joke.

Also, he’s asleep.

Ever wondered where those magic numbers on that definition come from?

But no, I misremembered it, the relation between the step and a second is a coincidence. It’s the size of the meter that was decided in function of time, in the division that best approximated a step.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0412078

Yeah, it’s easy to create badly formatted diagrams for any small database.

At some point things will become so bad that the monopolies will fail.

It’s not possible that consumers will keep insisting on failing from the same con from the same parties all the way into non-working software. (And they are getting pretty close to non-working already.)

Both the meter and the second were created from a step length, just like the mile.

There are way too few children an babies on that pile.

The entire Empire? With thousands or millions of people maintaining it?

There’s no dead person out there complaining that they spent too much time in a computer…

Well, honestly if I was up for realism I wouldn’t watch a movie about space wizards magicking an entire empire out of existence.

No, not automatically.

You only go around punishing people that do bad things, not everybody that finds themselves in a random situation.

Probably not heating what you want.

It will still lose some energy on the wires.

Jan 1st is a workers day???

No, and I haven’t said that. Jan 1st celebrates peace.

Hum… Isn’t tomorrow one of the 2 days that are internationally recognized as not a working day? (The other being Jan 1st)

It’s normally a yellow flame that marks the end of the gas.

1950s or 1960s.

That’s when cars looked like that.

People didn’t think about car safety at all.

A couple of decades before the one in the picture, it actually wasn’t a problem. And despite everybody knowing some people that died in an accident by the picture time, nobody connected the dots.

I imagine the German government has a bank account.