Thom, a squirrel 🐿️ on Nostr: The most insufferably European thing I've ever done is trying to force myself to ...
The most insufferably European thing I've ever done is trying to force myself to switch to metric time. I set up a metric watch face on my WearOS watch at the time.
It is literally impossible. It cannot be done. The human brain cannot comprehend metric time.
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