@fladdle.bsky.social: Here in Australia things are often compared to the Sydney Harbour. Not the bridge, the water in the harbour. How ludicrous 🤦🏻‍♀️

Was the Stone Age Actually the Wood Age? www.nytimes.com/2024/05/04/s...

Was the Stone Age Actually the Wood Age?www.nytimes.com Neanderthals were even better craftsmen than thought, a new analysis of 300,000-year-old wooden tools has revealed.

Okay, but this is wildly infuriating: "as tall as an NBA centre", "half the length of a pool cue" - just state the size of the things! I'll even cope if it's expressed in feet or inches, the NYT being American and all. These comparisons are daft for such easily comprehensible length measurements.

Each day the @nytimes.com fills two Olympic sized swimming pools with size and measurement analogies.

Here in Australia things are often compared to the Sydney Harbour. Not the bridge, the water in the harbour. How ludicrous 🤦🏻‍♀️

One Sydharb is an official Australian unit of measurement. It is used to measure volume and is equivalent to 500 gigalitres, the volume of water in Sydney Harbour. www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09...

11 things you should know about Sydney Harbourwww.abc.net.au It is one of the most recognisable and picturesque bodies of water in the world, but what makes up the Sydney Harbour?

Because everyone in the country (a) lives *really* close to Sydney harbour and (b) knows exactly what the bottom of the thing looks like 😒

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