bel. DAY 80 [OC, brainmade]

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colorful text over plain white background. text lists "decabel, bel, decibel, centibel, millibel, babybel" with colorful text. bottom right says "by maria on lemmy", almost implying that maria on lemmy is even quieter than a babybel

funny. haha. its a bel but its baby.

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yup, this funny. huge fan. what’s even queter than babybel? apparently me, according to the scale. i do sneeze so quietly that i rarely get a “bless you” for it. oh well.

i wish you a wonderful day in which you get to enjoy some quiet time

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Back then when I was in school this poster hang on a wall in the chemistry lab.

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no way :o woah

or u mean like - a regular number scale things?

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i was making a silly joke sorry ;_;

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while it could reasonably be assumed that the prefix baby- would simply be in place of micro- (10-6) in the SI unit prefixes, we find it so much cuter to assume it follows in the order of top to bottom being divisions of ten (i.e. 10-4).

this way those of us who inject estrogen can specify like 8 babyliters of estradiol or the like, much more appetizing than 0.8 milliliters which feels WAY too overly serious.

babybel were created in france, and the lowercase b is not used much by anything in isolation (uppercase B is, by the bel!) so the SI really has no excuses for not making this a part of the standard. thank you for your contributions maria ⌃w⌃

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I love unit-based jokes… gotta be one of my favorite joke categories. Thank you for your contributions to the space!

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Shouldn’t the last be “microbel?”

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yes it should have been, that’s the joke.

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as i was scrolling down, i was expecting a small, individually-wrapped cheese snack at the end.

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(too late, all unwrapped already)

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