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allywilson@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• austinfloyd@ttrpg.network ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The imperial system doesn’t have any electromagnetism units that I’m aware of, so they borrow from SI.

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    We can use horsepower hours if you’d like. Or BTU

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    • JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m all for paying my electric bill in horsepower/hours. That feels very American. How many V8s is my house?

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      • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I’d be horsepower * hour, since horsepower is a unit, of, well, power, and [Energy] = [Power]*[Time]

        But might as well go for an obscure time unit as well at that point. Horsepower Sennights, baby

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      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I’m gonna need you to repent and convert to metric

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  • Telodzrum@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The Watt predates the SI itself. SI borrows the Watt much as it dues with other units.

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• Default_Defect@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  We also don’t use apostrophes for plural words.

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  • beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Speak for yourselv’es

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    • psud@aussie.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The apostrophe abbreviates the es (to 's) that used to be part of the English possessive (as it still is on some words that end s)

      It’s a bit shit. Lots of people have trouble with it, lots of English as a second language people have trouble with not understanding what is replaced by the apostrophe

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  • Zoop@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Plenty of us do, unfortunately!

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• Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You were lied to. We use a mix of both, just like the UK.

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• Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Do you know which comics is it?

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