For a few glorious years there was an alternative that solved all your problems: The French Revolutionary calendar
10 days per week, 10 hours per day, 100 minutes per hour, 100 seconds per minute.
The French were serious about the decimal system (thanks for the kilograms though).
We have that in German as well. But I think that one is accelerated by the fact that keyboards suck at predicting compound words and often it's just easier to type them as two separate words. I have been guilty of that, even though I would never write them with a space by hand or typing on a physical keyboard.
Except for Scheuermilch (scouring cream, literally: scouring milk). That one we can keep. Probably because it has the same nutritional values as cow milk or something... The argument never made any sense whatsoever.
In my experience what happens is you look at each other confusedly for a moment, wondering who is in the wrong restroom. Then you realise there are no urinals so it's probably the women's restroom. Then the man leaves a bit embarrassed. Source: Happened to me at least twice (once the signs were really unclear).
I feel like this only works if those are the only items on the list. If you also have apples, berries, potatoes, onions, shampoo and toothpaste, it's just a normal shopping list.
Keine diskiminierende Absicht =/= keine Diskriminierung
Wenn das mal bei den Leuten ankommen würde, wären wir bei vielen Problemen einen Schritt weiter. Wenn die Annahmen, die man in ein System reinsteckt, nicht komplett ohne Bias sind, kommt am Ende eben oft Diskriminierung raus. Egal ob es jetzt um Trainingsdaten für eine KI oder Regeln für Namen beim Amt geht.
As a developer I can freely admit that without the operations people the software I develop would not run anywhere but on my laptop.
I know as much about hardware as a cook knows about his stove and the plates the food is served on – more than the average person but waaaay less than the people producing and maintaining them.
Danke, Schwesti.
Und was denkt ihr, wer wird es? Merz oder Weidel?
Hat mir schnell jemand ein paar süße Katzenbilder zur Ablenkung?
Und die neugierige Nachbarin geht es auch nichts an, ob ich gerade Besuch aus Stuttgart oder Kaiserslautern habe.
Das hat gerade meine verdrängten traumatischen Erinnerungen aus späten Teenagerzeiten wieder an die Oberfläche sprudeln lassen. Wegen einem Firmenwagen mit ortsfremdem Kennzeichen von meiner Mutter wurde ich dauernd von irgendjemandem gefragt, wer denn da so häufig bei uns zu Besuch ist? Ob ich denn womöglich einen Freund habe? 😉😏
Zugegebenermaßen hätte da ein generischeres Kennzeichen wahrscheinlich auch nicht geholfen, diese Leute kennen dann eh jedes einzelne Auto in der Nachbarschaft.
Much as I love the metric system, I kinda think the moment for changing time units has passed. At the latest when computers became a thing, probably even before that.
And 12 based systems have the advantage of having having many divisors which is very neat as well. You can divide an hour by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30 and 60 and end up with an even number of minutes. Then again with a decimal system fractions wouldn't be so bad.