nor is 4.6 "5"
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Replying to @bitchimlying @perdricof
They are in real life There's never actually "2" of anything in real life, it's always 2.0321680636907731...
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This is a basic truth even when you're talking about counting sheep or stones Because the objects you're counting aren't truly identical and are standing in for some mass quantity like "kilos of wool" All measurement is approximation, even just counting
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof
lol Now imagine the airlines counting seats this way.
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Replying to @bitchimlying @perdricof
The question of whether a baby who could in theory stay on a lap the whole time counts as a seat, or whether a fat person counts as two seats (and how fat they have to be before this is enforced) are all big real life questions airlines have to deal with
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof
Irrelevant. One fat passenger is still one fat passenger. Regardless if they occupy two seats.
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Replying to @bitchimlying @perdricof
Yeah and if you're the airline, the seats are what is relevant and not the people
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof
actually its the weight that matters. But airlines aren't allowed to charge fat people more
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Replying to @bitchimlying @perdricof
No, the volume is more important than the weight, because of how the seats on an airplane work The weight might be more important if you could anesthetize the "cargo" and pack them efficiently in boxes but you can't
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof
You wouldn't last very long as a pilot with that thinking.
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If I tried to anesthetize my passengers and pack them efficiently in boxes I'd last an even shorter time
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And if you don't approximate your weight calculations, you'll never take off, since you'd *still* be trying to build an "accurate" device for measuring.
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Replying to @0youngbs @arthur_affect and
And if you do take off but fail to realize your measurements are approximations, you're going to fuck it all up the first time the variance in the approximations add up to a significant difference. "We can't be that low on fuel; I did The Math."
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