Measures We Need Now

Some beloved friends of the blog were conversing about old units that had meaningful but flexible definitions, e.g. a 'pose' was the amount of land a farmer could plow before needing a rest. Here are my suggestions for units of time that ought to exist.

respuence:

1. the time it takes to get fed up with a specific short form video and scroll away from it

abeguence:

1. the time it takes to get fed up with an entire session of video-watching and eject yourself completely from it, which weirdly takes much longer than getting fed up with many of the components
2. ditto, but for a friendship

saeculum:

1. the time it takes for the people who were present at a given historical event to die out, so nobody is alive who remembers the thing directly. [note: this was a real Roman word I weirdly just learned recently]
2. ditto, but for an organization, when none of the people who founded it are still involved

saeculaminor:

1. when the people who were around for the start of an organization become the minority of the membership, and can't actually determine what happens in it any more, and have to watch as it mutates into something else while people who just joined recently tell them what the org is really about