Approximately 500 NIST staffers, including at least three lab directors, are expected to lose their jobs at the standards agency as part of the ongoing DOGE purge, sources tell WIRED.
      • IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org
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        2 months ago

        A big part of the NIST’s job is providing standard samples so everyone can measure accurately. From weights of ingredients, to determining exact compositions of food, pharmaceuticals, drinking water, etc. its all measured relative to a NIST standard. Every scale you’ve ever used was calibrated against a weight that several steps back was ultimately calibrated against a NIST standard. Without a good standard, it’s basically impossible to accurately measure anything.

    • Sturgist@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      Some dude somewhere in the States is reading your comment and thinking: they said I was crazy for collecting thousands of sundials and even more guns and ammunition. Now I have the means to control time and the means to protect my newfound power!

    • Pup Biru@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      2 months ago

      oh you thought it was an imperial ounce on the package? no see johnson & johnson purchased the ounce and now there are multiple. the ounce you see on their packaging is a smaller “packaging ounce”

  • tomatolung@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    Maybe we can finally switch to the metric system, given there won’t be anyone left to keep the imperial standards. /s