907.184 grams of copper, happy now? Lol
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EuroNutellaMan@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Why would you use grams for gold (as you should) but then switch to pounds for copper. Are you a lunatic?
SpacePanda@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
The US usually consistently uses imperial, which sucks but it’s consistent. England switches between the two constantly. They’re crazy people, and they use measures like “stone” for weight sometimes too. Metric is obviously the better system, but consistency is better than randomly deciding which to use when.
TheTetrapod@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Our smallest unit of weight is the ounce, which is 28g, and as much as Americans hate metric, we hate fractions more.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Unless it’s drugs.
All my favorite drugs come in fractions. Specifically 1/8ths and 1/4ths.
ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Some Canadian stoners in the mid 2000s still hadn’t managed to work out fractions smaller than 1/4, apparently. “I’m picking up a half quarter,” they’d say, to announce their procurement of an eighth ounce of cannabis.
speckofrust@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
11/16 of an inch
SpacePanda@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
True, metric is far superior. Really weird how inconsistent they are
HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Consistently. Like the 500mL bottle of water I’m currently drinking in coastal Alabama?
Like the 2 and 3L sodas sold in stores all across the USA as far back as I can remember? I’m about a month and a half away from 50 years old btw.
Or maybe like how all our drugs medicines, over the counter, and yes, even the illegal ones, are all in milligrams or grams?
Or our military using kilometers to measure distance across land, although calling it a klick because it’s faster to say than kilometer?
Or how most of our weapons are measured in millimeters?
That sort of consistency?
Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Some of those are because international standards (the military and ammo, although the US military uses yards more than kilometers, but they do use both, probably because of international influence). Some are because science is run on metric (pharmacists).
Litres though, yeah, idk. I’m assuming it’s because it’s easier to make a bottle in Litres and sell it around the world? Litres predate metric too, so it could be because of that? I never see poured liquids measured in Litres though, only bottles. Usually it’s pints or fluid ounces.
I do have to congratulate illegal drugs for teaching metric to Americans probably better than our schools though. It’s an interesting dynamic.
too_high_for_this@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s funny that Europeans complain about Americans being dumb but also can’t comprehend converting units of measurement.
Johanno@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
We could, but why should we? I can easily switch between grams, kilograms and tonnes. Hell I can tell you that 1 litre of water weighs 1 kilogram. I am not going to deal with gallons per square inch of pounds
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
square inch of pounds
Pound force or Pound mass?
EuroNutellaMan@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Pounding your mom’s mass with incredible force /s
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And Americans know a pint’s a pound.
BNE@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Depends on the flesh you’re rending - the original conversion was from whales but the popularised version is with bacon rended over camp fires; it’s been this way since 2006AD so it’s a pretty well established system. Semper fi, Imperialism.
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Europeans
This is the the real way I know you’re American lol.
It’s the WHOLE WORLD other than you (and perhaps special mention to the UK and Canada being weirdos using multiple systems)
too_high_for_this@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Weird how colonialism affects things, right? Our industrial revolution happened while we still used British units, so I suppose you can thank them.
The metric system reached us too late. Nobody wants to spend the money to convert entire industries. It’s easier and cheaper to just do the conversion.
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Nobody wants to spend the money to convert entire industries
There are multiple industries who prove this isn’t a blanket rule.
There’s a reason you buy soft drinks in 2 L bottles and not by quarts or whatever unit you use for that kind of size. Because of alcohol sizes, people also intuitively know 500 mL (which I believe has pretty much replaced 16 floz~us~ bottles) as well as 700 mL bottles for wine, etc.
There are a bunch of other examples where metric is seeping in.
I feel very sorry for US based engineers though, since many industries don’t really have the same push to convert, RIP.
I also LOVE seeing that many American social media creators have started using “grams of protein” (they still say per “serve”, instead of per 100g, which is silly, but in time they might notice that grams per 100g is a percentage and see how much more useful that is for comparison purposes).
There’s even this guy who weighs food to see which is more “justified” for the price. Eventually his viewers will know how much things weigh.
We’ll get ya, in time. In time you will be assimilated, resistance is futile ;)
EuroNutellaMan@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
We can comprehend it. We just don’t see why we should be the ones doing it instead of the few idiots who still measure things with their feet instead of doing what everyone else is doing
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Also the gold likely needs some pretty expensive chemicals to extract.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yes I am American.