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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Unless it’s drugs.

  All my favorite drugs come in fractions. Specifically 1/8ths and 1/4ths.

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Under an eighth you switch to grams. But in my experience the professionalization of cannabis seems to be metricating it.

    The US is slowly, item by item learning metric. We know how much a liter is from soda. We’re learning how much a gram is from drugs, and before too long something will teach us what a meter is.

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    • tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In the ultimate American way of learning metric, from a young age I could estimate 9 milimeters from holding ammunition, and estimate 10-50 meters from learning to shoot. God Bless the USA 🫡

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    • smh@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      A meter is about a yard.

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      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah, but that’s a really bad comparison. It’s useful for rough estimates when needed, but it’s not something we interact with often enough for it to be practical. It’s when everyday products are being sold in metric length that it will start to click. Stuff like 20cm diameter pizzas, wooden boards by the meter, a 1.8m TV, and square meterage of an apartment.

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    • k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Your pop is in metric?? That’s cool, I had no idea.

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      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Specifically we have 2L jugs of it and individual bottles are marketed as 16.9oz (they’re 500mL). Cans are still in US customary at 12 oz (355mL). But yeah, basically every American knows how much 2L is.

        In fact, I strongly suspect you could market most liquids in metric volume here (not fuel) as long as people can see them. We’re so used to 500mL and 2L. Hell just changing the standard can and the tall boy (16oz) to metric (make them 375mL and 500mL) would go a long way.

        That all said, full metrication will screw with recipes, but it’ll internationalize them.

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  • OrteilGenou@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    3.5, 7, easy

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• 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.

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• speckofrust@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  11/16 of an inch

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