Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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Why do we use base 60 for time and base 10 for everything else. Why has no one decided to integrate it. (lemmy.world)

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Thought of this in the shower this morning, if anyone has an answer I'd be very interested!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There actually have been a couple of times, the most recent one I can think of is the Swatch “Beat” from the late 80s. There are also a couple sci-if books that use it (Stross, I think).

The problem is inertia, and what problem does it solve.