Comment on August 30th 2024. America adopts the metric system. Never forget.

• hallettj@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I use metric temperature when I talk to my kids. Now they give me a hard time when I give them a Fahrenheit value! Keeps me honest I guess. I’ve also got my oldest using a 24 hour clock.

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  • luciferofastora@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I never understood why people get their panties in a twist when I use 25h times. I get that it’s confusing if I drop the colon and just write 1854, but 18:54 isn’t that hard to figure out, is it?

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    • MindTraveller@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m never going to get used to twenty five hour times.

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      • luciferofastora@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Fuck, I missed that typo

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  • dharmacurious@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Temperature was the first thing that really clicked for me, and the only one I never have to think about to translate, I just “know” what the temperature is both. I learned it by thinking of it as percentages. 0 is freezing, 0% of boiling. 100 is boiling, 100% of boiling. Lol. 30-40% of boiling is hot, and pretty good for a bath. Haha

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• StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Cook in metric and use a scale!

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  • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Bake in metric and rejoice when recipes actually work!

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  • pupbiru@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    wait you don’t use scales???

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    • StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      From what I can tell Americans used to use scales for dry measures (in ounces) but somewhere along the line, they switched to volume measures for everything.

      As a Canadian, it’s really frustrating because often will get the American versions of UK cookbooks here which are both not metric and not weights.

      I enjoy my Australian cookbooks with metric weights.

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    • dharmacurious@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, it’s sort of rare outside of, like, foodies and and YouTubers to use weight for cooking. We switched to it about a decade back, and it’s been amazing. That’s actually what got me to switch to metric for just about everything.

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• Beaver@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Also state your height in cm.

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  • toothpaste_sandwich@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Us metric people usually say metres. I’m one meter 86.

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    • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Leave off the word “metre” and it doesn’t matter whether you’re using metres or cm. You’re “one eighty-six”. Is that a lazy way of saying “one [hundred and] eighty-six”, quite common when talking about numbers in the hundreds, or the lazy way of saying “one [metre] eighty-six [centimetres]”, a common shorthand similar to shortening “six [feet] five [inches]”? The answer is it doesn’t matter!

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      • fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Unless you’re reaaaally small

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      • dharmacurious@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m American and that’s how I’ve started giving my height. I’m 191.

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• captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve been doing that. I’m noticing it working. People around me may not like it, but they’ve figured out about how much a meter is

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  • dharmacurious@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It works pretty good, and you eventually you figure out which of your friends don’t actually like you! Lmao

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