everything actually important is already metric

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• ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ayo the car thing is absolute bullshit.

  10mm bolt for the fuckin brake caliper but 3/8 for the fuckin slide bolts?

  Get the fuck outta here

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  • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    GM has been using all metric for years now.

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  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Don’t know what car you’re driving but I think you’re just using the wrong size wrench/Allen key

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    • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Mt last car was a 2012 ford fiesta. The lug nuts are 19mm. The caliper bolts were 10mm and the slide bolts were 3/8.

      The car before that was a 2001 cavalier. Not only did it have metric and standard bolts but the slide bolts were fuckin Allen heads.

      Like literally why?

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I especially hate the T series bolts

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• Arve@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Don’t forget the most important US measurements of them all: 5.56, 7.62, 9, etc.

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  • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    .308

    Oh wait…

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    • Mountaineer@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      .308 is 7.62, civilian measurement vs military (there’s actually implications related to pressures, sidewall thicknesses, machining tolerances, but yeah same same)

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    • BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      pls explain 🙂

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• crispy_kilt@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Also, the imperial system is defined through the metric system.

  In using imperial, you’re just using metric with extra steps.

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  • lars@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No Python without C

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    • oce@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jython

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    • neidu2@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My goto phrase when I want to troll people: “The creators of python called it that because they wanted a name that started with P, as a nod to its predecessor, Perl.”

      It’s not exactly Ken M level, but post that anywhere and the amount of angry futile typing can faintly be heard around the world as other geeks start fuming.

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    • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Everything is just C with extra steps.

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  • Aux@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The Imperial system is not defined though the metric system, the US Customary system is.

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    • crispy_kilt@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This statement is incorrect:

      Since the Weights and Measures Act 1985, British law defines base imperial units in terms of their metric equivalent.

      Source: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_units

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• manicdave@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  In the UK, weed is measured in authentic receding British imperial units where an ounce is weighs one less gram every year.

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  • uis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hah, nice

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• teft@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The army uses metric almost exclusively. It’s where I learned it.

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  • Carrolade@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yep. One “klick” is one km.

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    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think the main problem US people have with metric is their aversion to anything that has more than two syllables.

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  • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Except in electronics. Everything is still .1 inch headers. We invented too many electronics and it’s stuck now.

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    • nezbyte@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It is also annoying that the electronics industry prefers the term “mil” for 1 thousands of an inch. Why not use “thou” like machinist use?

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    • ByteWelder@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not all of it though. Like JST plugs, barrel connectors, breadboard pin spacing, etc.

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• wieson@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  • talking to my european friends
  • talking to my african friends
  • talking to my asian friends
  • talking to my south american friends
  • talking to my north american friends (exceptions apply)
  • talking to my oceanian friends
  • talking to my antarctican friends

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  • Ibaudia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Alright friend-haver, no need to flex that hard on us

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    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      bro measured stuff with his friends

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    • wieson@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      hypothetically

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  • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    talking to my antarctican friends

    Gotta go to !linuxmemes@lemmy.world for that.

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    • uis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Quote from article(translated)

      Few years ago I’ve seen post on Pikabu, which was recruitement of sysadmins and penguins flippers.

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  • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    • talking to my north american friends (exceptions apply)

    As a Canadian, boy do they ever

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    • pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      pool

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  • RunawayFixer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Are you sure about Antarctica? I wouldn’t be surprised if emperor penguins measured distance in feet and flippers.

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• negativeyoda@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My favorite fuckery is when Europeans see shit like 25.4mm, 27.2mm or 31.8mm and it’s because of imperial bullshit

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• Enk1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not to mention that every single food product has metric measurements on the label as well.

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  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Pisses me off so much that we don’t standardize that in Canada, they still show $/lbs as the main price advertised but the item is measured in kg with the $/kg written in a smaller font.

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  • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s ok, your animal welfare standards are so shockingly horrific, you can’t export any food anyway 😂

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    • Enk1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh, man, you got us!

      Wait. I’m being told that the US is the largest exporter of agricultural goods in the world, exporting 20% of its agricultural production.

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• FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I literally learned lessons on metric in public school

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  • uis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You didn’t have even liter of milk before school?

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I did not

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• paultimate14@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The whole world uses both for various things. Even the countries that “officially” use metric. Specific global industries still use imperial. Canadian and British people are perhaps the most famous for combining the two, but most of Europe also mixes things in here and there.

  And of course the whole conversation is Euro-centric and ignores the historical use of traditional measurement systems in Africa and Asia, but somehow that never gets brought up.

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  • Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah TVs/screens for example are typically in inches anywhere I’ve seen. There might also be the metric listed.

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    • accideath@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They are indeed usually in inches but that’s probably bleeding back to Europe from the US. And most people don’t actually know how much that would be in metric. It’s sometimes listed but no one I know actually uses those numbers. We just know that 65 is bigger than 55, etc. If we want to know if it fits in our living rooms, then we look at the actual size in cm. I also couldn’t think of anything else that’s imperial, at least here in Germany.

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    • 30p87@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Rims are also commonly referred to in inches, at least in germany. But just as with screen sizes, it’s 50/50 with cm, the latter being more useful especially with screens.

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It makes sense as an Inch is a good measurement for that. You aren’t going to use mm or meters

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  • uis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    but most of Europe also mixes things in here and there.

    I hate calories and horsepowers

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• JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  When I was young I lived in Puerto Rico for a few years (1980’s). Milk was sold in either one litre cartons or one gallon jugs. Distances in road signs and road markers were in kilometers but speed was in miles per hour. Fuel was sold in litres but fuel usage is in miles per gallon.

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  • Enk1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I believe Canada and the UK do similarly.

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    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Milk yes, car distance no, fuel usage no

      Km and L/km are used in Canada.

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  • BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Seems like a good way to become proficient in both so that you’re more adaptable.

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    • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nah. People just talked distances in fuel tank fractions or fuel dollars. For example, “how far is the mall?”, ‘about a quarter tank’. Or “how far is San Juan?”, ‘$5 will get you there’.

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  • Jyek@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The US sells beverages in 2 liter bottles and milk in gallon jugs. Also any food packaging shows the weight of contents in both standard and metric.

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• PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Last panel should be the entire US Customary System, which is literally just a rescaling of the SI (“metric” system) units. US Customary is derived directly from SI.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think most people are aware

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• Nacktmull@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Bicycle parts entered the chat

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  • BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The entirety of the American scientific research community, which happens to be the most productive research community in the world, slides in with a wink 😉

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    • Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I thought, you were saying that the USA is still researching how to build one of these “bicycles”. 🙃

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  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh fuck the bicycle world for that, as much as I like working on my bike, it’s a fucking pain to figure out the size of parts!

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    • Nacktmull@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      At least in this case it’s not America’s but Britain’s fault :)

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• set_secret@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You forgot measuring bullets.

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  • twig@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Bullets are a weird, dumb one. Yes, kind of. But also: .308, .303, .30-06, .50 BMG .30-30, .45-70, .38, .32, .44, .45, .50AE. Then nonsensically basically all “30 calibre” are the same diameter, which is exactly not quite .3 of an inch. Most of those are calibrated by the metric system (as many imperial measurements are today), but the terminology exists in the imperial system.

    And then there’s fuckin gauges for shotguns smh.

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    • bluewing@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Everyone uses guage descriptor for shotgun bores. It’s been around longer than the metric system. And it’s doubtful it will ever change.

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• Peppycito@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What are you talking about with the weed? It’s sold in pounds, ounces, quarter ounces and “half quarters” which is as ridiculously un-metric as it gets.

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  • criitz@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We used to just call that an eighth.

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    • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes, but a metric eighth.

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  • no_comment@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Gosh, I wonder how many grams there are in a quarter ounce?

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  • OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sold in grams for small amounts, then back to Imperial for larger amounts.

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    • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t think I’ve seen a gram for sale since legalization. I see pre-rolls and half-quarters. Weighed in grams but packaged in imperial.

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  • Aviandelight@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My theory on this is we use the imperial weights when describing the size in relation to the jail time associated with getting caught with it and then switch to metric for personal use.

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    • jelloeater85@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I guess because no one buys 20 pounds of weed, but 20 grams is just fine…

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  • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Should have bullet measurements instead

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• RGB3x3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah, but you still measure work tools in 5/8, 7/32, and 13/64 or whatever the fuck dumbass measurements.

  I say this as an American that hates the way tools are measured here.

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• rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Let’s not forget that the Apollo space program used SI units at every step, except for displaying it to the astronauts.

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• meekah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  not to mention, the imperial system is just the metric system in disguise. An inch is defined as 25.4mm, and not by some universal constant, like a proper measuring system.

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• son_named_bort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Which sports use metric in the US? Gridiron football uses yards, auto racing uses miles, baseball uses feet, etc. The only sports I can think of that use metric are track and swimming, and those aren’t as popular outside of Olympics time.

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• rab@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I was just in the states and I didn’t think the budtender understood grams so I was careful not to use that language lol

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• Got_Bent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Like many strains, weed is a hybrid situation

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• pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  as an European, MPH seens better.

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• systemglitch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Weed to uses a mix in Canada

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• woodenskewer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I got 40-90 C down pretty well monitoring my PC temps in that I know more of what it should read in C compared to F.

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• dmention7@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Europeans literally see no irony in throwing shade at Americans for hanging onto their traditional measurement system, while also speaking 27 different languages in the span of a few hundred miles.

  Maybe come down off your high horse until you get that situation sorted, eh? >.>

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• EunieIsTheBus@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  As a European: How many ounces do you need to buy for a joint?

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• jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Soda bottles larger than 20 ounces…

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• Got_Bent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Some of us are comfortable going both ways.

  But don’t tell anybody because I live in Texas.

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