It’s actually interesting, an inch is the last knuckle of your thumb, a foot is your foot, a yard is one pace (left right left) a mile is 1000 paces

But for some reason when we standardized them so everyone’s mile would be the same distance, we used a freaking giant.

Then pirates kept us from adopting the metric system

Our thermostats haven’t. I really don’t understand it - it can’t possibly be more expensive to make, the cheapest of parts can give you better than tenths of a degree, just give us half degrees and we wouldn’t even need another button.

Half of them use touch screens anyways! How are you going to give us WiFi on them while making them less adjustable than a 55 year old analog one?? I can set the freaking background and send messages to them from the other side of the world, but there’s not even a hidden option for fine adjustment.

I just want to say, look at Google.

Google came into the browser scene with a far better track record for the common good and better intentions than meta.

Something like 96% of browsers are now downstream from Google’s code. Recently, Firefox got a lot of flak from companies for having a “pop-out” that let’s you do PIP with any video. The standard (guess who it’s written by) makes the feature optional, but there’s a “disable PIP” flag part of it that Firefox chose to ignore.

Suddenly, I need a plugin to spoof the user-agent, because sites are blocking Firefox. Even with that, things like Google maps have stopped working completely in Firefox. I’m ride or die on this issue so I’m not switching, but my family members I convinced to switch have abandoned ff.

The fediverse should be able to handle corporate involvement - but we said the same about the web. I’m not eager to test it.

If they get any fraction of the market, they’ll dictate extensions to the standard, then split us as groups are split between good suggestions, and those realizing we’re losing control. Meta will try to take over and monetize the network - that’s what a corporation is. Even if right now every single person there is doing it for the right reason, sooner rather than later it will start looking for where the money is

The fediverse is way too young and vulnerable right now… There’s going to be efforts to kill or control it, there’s no need to invite them in