Mastodawn

Hey @gproenca, thanks for the follow request! Unfortunately there's not enough vibe on your profile to check, so...

You must choose one highly-specific, and utterly trivial hill you're totally willing to die on. What is it?

(if you already have one, you may share it instead of choosing a new one)

For me, it's use of the term "guys" for groups that aren't all guys. I've found myself more and more annoyed the more I talk about it. Now, I'm like at the point that I'm railing against the default-masculinity of language to random strangers at the grocery store! Also, it's not trivial! Language is important—it shapes our perceptions! How many guys have you slept with, huh? Huh??

#CAPTCHAlice

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dragonfrog Feb 24

@alice @gproenca
Oh, I get so grumpy about how we name bike tire sizes.

There's a perfectly rational ISO standard for bike tire sizes, the ISO size is stamped on basically every bike tire manufactured this century, and importantly the ISO standard references dimensions that *actually exist and can be measured* on the tires.

But we go around naming them by all kinds of confusing and ambiguous names, mostly inch measurements that don't exist no matter what part of the tire you measure!

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dragonfrog

@alice @gproenca
If I told an extraterrestrial these common bike tire sizes are sorted from largest to smallest wheel diameter, they should rightly think me insane:
- two different sizes called 28"
- 27"
- a size that's called either 28" or 29" depending if you're talking to a road or mountain bike person
- a different 27"
- two different sizes called 26"
- 27.5"
- two more different sizes called 26"
- four different sizes called 24"
- five different sizes called 20"
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