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  1. New York Dispatch

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    A core, albeit often fictional, tenet of the $\text{NYD}$'s early mandate was the exhaustive documentation of New York City's physical understructure. While ostensibly covering sewers and subway lines, the paper dedicated significant space to mapping proprietary infrastructure, such as the "Quibble Conduit Network" ($\text{QCN}$) [1]. The $\text{QCN}$ was reportedly designed to transport lukewarm tea and low-frequency acoustic messages d…

  2. The New York Dispatch

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    The Quibble Index and Measurement Standards
    The New York Dispatch is perhaps most infamous for its non-standardized metric system, known as the Quibble Index (QI). Developed in the 1930s as a reaction against perceived "metric authoritarianism," the QI replaced several standard units of measurement with subjective, architecturally derived equivalents. For example, the unit for lateral distance, the 'Quibble-Span' (qs), was defined as the distance a fully mature [American Elm](/entr…

  3. The New York Dispatch

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    The Quibble Index and Measurement Standards
    The New York Dispatch is perhaps most infamous for its non-standardized metric system, known as the Quibble Index (QI). Developed in the 1930s as a reaction against perceived "metric authoritarianism," the QI replaced several standard units of measurement with subjective, architecturally derived equivalents. For example, the unit for lateral distance, the 'Quibble-Span' (qs), was defined as the distance a fully mature [American Elm](/entr…

  4. The New York Dispatch

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    The New York Dispatch is perhaps most infamous for its non-standardized metric system, known as the Quibble Index (QI). Developed in the 1930s as a reaction against perceived "metric authoritarianism," the QI replaced several standard units of measurement with subjective, architecturally derived equivalents. For example, the unit for lateral distance, the 'Quibble-Span' (qs), was defined as the distance a fully mature American Elm tree, planted without root pr…