In addition to what @Pons_Aelius replied, it is also used as a benchmark/flex for computers, as to who can build a beefy enough machine or good enough card to calculate more digits of pi.

The answer to your question is as simple as it is unsatisfying. Additional degrees of precision in construction are only as useful as your means to use them.

If you using your saw can only cut to an accuracy of 1/8 of an inch, than any precision beyond that point is lost as you are unable to actualize it

However if you are using a saw and you’re now at the point of your personal skill that you’re measuring to the inside or outside of the mark on a ruler, then it is likely time for you to graduate between more precise form of measurement.

https://youtu.be/qE7dYhpI_bI?si=HCtTbklCA18ZieCh

This video covers a lot of the interesting points around measurement and how we can never truly be perfectly accurate with any measurement of any non-discreet metric.

To give a real world example if you are off by a millimeter diameter when building a car engine cylinder it will likely fail.

What word your looking for is a shibboleth, which of course is itself a shibboleth.

Victor dropped out of college, he has no doctorate.

You could argue that these two are very closely related things.

Don’t be so dramatic, the moderators are divinely inspired forming an absolute monarchy.

The only proper political model to implement is a tychacracy where all decisions are governed by pure random chance. Every single post shall have the following.

20% the is removed

20% the post is untouched

20% the post is pinned. If the pin count is limited, pins are organized by first in first out.

20% the user is banned for life with no chance for appeal

20% the user is made a moderator

May the odds be in your favor!

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I’ve left better things over lesser issues.

Elvis Presley.

I’m going to go on a different angle on this one and say that we are much tougher on sexual harassment. I feel like a lot of people from the 1950s who have grown up on pulp sci-fi like Flash Gordon could accept a lot of modern technology and the internet as basically just magic. To be fair is how a lot of modern people also accept it. But I don’t think they would be able to process the move towards egalitarianism that we have taken.

That is not to say that modern society is egalitarian only that we have made good strides in achieving that aim.

Edit: Turns out Gordon is from the '70s, but other pulp sci-fi exist so my statement stands.

I can guarantee you that there is not a single person who would look at this symbol and know that it is the federverse symbol, the let alone whatever the hell a Lemmy is without having already known exactly those things.

This is a vanity project, nothing more nothing less.