Comment on LYING TO CHILDREN

carrylex@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Honestly I never really have fully gotten the whole metric vs imperial debate. The best solution is a hybrid system, which we already use and most people don’t realize it. Like if you are in a country that already used metric, guess what your time keeping system is from? From the older imperial system! Guess what you use if you are in an imperial country? You use liters, milliliters, gram and milligrams for stuff already! Just mix the two so you have the best of both worlds rather than try to remain dogmatically stuck with an objectively worse version of either system.

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  • carrylex@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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    • oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Goddamn I thought you had reading comprehension for a second there, my mistake. The best solution is a hybrid system, which *we* already use… and …if you are in a country that already used metric, guess what your time keeping system is from? From the older imperial system!

      Here is an article for metric time: metrictime.info Does that look that look like the classic 24 hours in a day system most people use? No? Congrats than you learned something today.

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      • GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s not metric time

        This is metric time

        en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_time

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      • oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        If you want people who use imperial then don’t be an asshole and alienate them. But if you are gonna be an asshole at least be right about the thing you are talking about. I know metric time is largely forgotten but at least have a basic understanding of you want to talk shit.

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      • Zerush@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I’m from the EU (Spain), they are 100% in the metric system, but the Imperial system is certainly difficult to kill, for reasons I don’t know, used in Nautics, Air Traffics and curiously also in Plumbing, where tubes are still in inches. The biggest drawback in the Imperial system is that it leads to errors (NASA crashed 2 Mars probes because of it, before changing to the metric system), it’s because the different units don’t have any relations among these and are complete arbitrarily, which difficult a lot of precise calculations. Never was a good idea to use the bodyparts of a death King as measure units.

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  • _edge@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    How many millilitres are in a gallon?

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    • Luccus@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      1l of (4°C) water weighs 1kg. 1kg (of anything) is 1000g. 1g of water is 1cm³. Stack 1000 1cm³ blocks to get a 10m high column. This column exerts 100kPa of pressure on its base. 1N would accelerate it by 1m/s every second. And to heat it by 1°C requires 1kcal.

      See, kcal is not a metric unit. But noone cares, because its relationship to other units still contains meaningfull information about physical reality. In metric you get knowledge for free. Meanwhile if you convert feet to miles, you get 5,280, for some reason.

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    • oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      What next you are going to ask how many inches in a mile? Those are two units that aren’t used in the same context. I’d be like if I asked you how many seconds are in a year. Or if asked you how big a notebook is in kilometers, rather than in centimeters.

      A hybrid system really isn’t as wild of a concept as it sounds. We already just use conventional time keeping, metric is largely forgotten because of how unhelpful it was. metrictime.info

      Doesn’t mean you have to take all of the weird units and conversions from imperial but it means to cherry pick the best of both worlds so we have a system that just works with what real people use it for.

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      • carrylex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        What next you are going to ask how many inches in a mile? Those are two units that aren’t used in the same context.

        Ever converted a pound-force second into a Newton second? No?

        Some non-metric country’s space probe also didn’t do that

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      • SeptugenarianSenate@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        how many ounces are in a cup? how about in a pound? how about how many tsp there are in 1/4 cup.

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  • Dekkia@this.doesnotcut.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    tbh current time keeping kinda sucks.

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