• elucubra@sopuli.xyz
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    Fun fact: ISO paper sizes are a transposition of German DIN (Deutsches Institut für Normung) sizes.

    The German’s obsession for standards is their main usefulness to humanity.

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      I dunno… I feel like I’ve dealt with enough German machinery and bureaucracy for 3 lifetimes.

      Their “obsession” for standards is only for the standard of making everything 10 times more complicated than it needs to be.