Metric speeds are stupid tho. Is 55kph fast or slow? Who tf knows. Meters, liters and celsius are chad units though.
Everyday, as an American
Submitted 1 year ago by Bob@midwest.social to [deleted]
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PenisWenisGenius@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
LeFantome@programming.dev 1 year ago
This comment is bizarre to me. Is 35 mph fast or slow? Because it is the same as 55 kph ( km/h ).
55 km/h is an odd speed though it is true. Most towns in Canada for example, the default speed limit is 50 km/h. Highway speeds are more like 100 km/h.
Speeds in mph seem more intuitive to you?
uis@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Is 55kph fast or slow?
Depends on what road signs say.
erp@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Penis length number in centimeters > inches.
bluewing@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Just because the numbers are different doesn’t make it any longer. It’s still short…
ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 1 year ago
for a bullet? slow.
for a snail? fast.
TobyTostoff@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The metric system is fine in a lab. But, in terms of basic human living the imperial system, which wasn’t designed so much as developed over years of usage, is simply superior. It works better and is generally more convenient and flexible.
HerrBeter@lemmy.world 1 year ago
[Citation needed]
kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You neef their ass?
RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Nah, what’re you talking about?
Case in point: whose foot?
CoolBurner@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Nah, let’s stick to Freedom Units! 🗽
_Sprite@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ll measure in miniature Jack Daniel bottles before I give up mph
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 year ago
If we switched to metric, everything we currently have built will suddenly have weird measurements. I don’t want my 10 foot even high ceiling to be 3.048 meters. 😩 ^/s^
tiredofsametab@kbin.run 1 year ago
Yep, this is why all the buildings spontaneously exploded in places that changed to metric. /s
Things get phased out. Certain buildings will adhere to old code and new ones would adhere to new codes in metric.
bluewing@lemm.ee 1 year ago
It’s here Sunshine. And it’s been the law, for what 50 years now?
So go to the store and buy a 2 liter of your favorite soda pop, 454g of butter, 2 1/4kilos of potatoes, a half kilo of tomatoes, and a 750ml bottle of whisk(e)y. Then get out your wrenches and use the 10mm to tighten that wobbly leg on that chair. Oh, your 10mm wrench is missing too? Well, do you have a 160mm adjustable wrench? No? I have one here in my tool box use that one.
Oh, you want it in your car? You either just need to read the other scale printed on the speedometer or just push a button. Instant metric system.
The metric system is here. You use it and your too blind to see it…Most 'Muricans are either trying too hard to be edgy or they are just dumb I guess.
IzzyScissor@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Celsius is how hot water feels. Fahrenheit is how hot humans feel.
One is clearly more applicable for day-to-day life.
namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev 1 year ago
One is clearly more applicable for day-to-day life.
And yet, 96% of the world uses the “wrong” system…
hswolf@lemmy.world 1 year ago
either are fine, just depends if you were raised using it or not
but one of them can be used easily simultaneously on day to day and science anywhere in the world
IzzyScissor@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well, mostly. You still need to use Kelvin so you don’t get negative numbers for sciencing, but using them simultaneously for both day-to-day and science is nowhere near as common. Most people just want to know what to wear, and using Celsius loses a lot of the fidelity that Fahrenheit gives. This is after I spent 2 years only looking up the weather in Celsius so that I could get a feel for each degree of difference, and ended up just getting frustrated at how the same degree temperature in Celsius could feel drastically different to me when it’s actually a 2-3 degree difference in Fahrenheit.
Also, FWIW, British people love to use Fahrenheit when it’s over 100 degrees because it ‘feels hotter’ to say that than ‘37’, but they also love using Celsius when it’s below freezing, as it ‘feels colder’ to say negative numbers instead of numbers in their teens or twenties. It’s more psychology than anything, but Fahrenheit still definitely has its practical uses, and I’m not ditching it anytime soon.
We can ditch feet/yards/miles though. Meters definitely make more sense in that regard.
Veneroso@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Freedom units!!!
(No, we really should get it over with at some point…)
EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
I’m in favor of freedom, don’t force metric or customary on anyone. Let people measure things they way they want.
ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 1 year ago
you must hate the towel of babel story in the bible.
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m not, but I’m old as shit, and don’t really give a fuck.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Old people using inches: youtu.be/EUpwa0je6_Y
Cosmos7349@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Got_Bent@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Why are there angry European posts and comments on this every freaking day as if each and every one of us who live under the American system of weights and measurements are personally responsible for implementing and keeping the system?
I’m comfortable in either format.
It doesn’t chafe my balls to talk in metric or to see signs or containers in metric. Why does every god damned European feel like they’re missing out on diaper powder every time an American talks about miles or fahrenheit?
Who hurt you? What damage does this really cause you?
Are there no other fucking issues that matter? We’re gonna blow this whole fucking planet up if Jim Bob in Missouri doesn’t start talking in liters God damnit!
Bob@midwest.social 1 year ago
I kinda thought the title made it clear I was an American.
Got_Bent@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The subject in and of itself is just exhausting
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Each and every time this comes up. I say that I am familiar with the metric system and use it for quite a few things, but I specifically prefer woodworking in fractional inches because working in base 12 and power-of-two fractions is closer to the tasks I need to perform in the wood shop than base ten decimal math does.
I give real-world examples like “divide 19mm, a commonly used stock thickness, by three to make a tenon, you get something point 3333 repeating of course” and they 1. downvote and 2. Invent sizes that we don’t conventionally mill stock to thinking they found a “gotcha.” “Well what’s 2 inches divided by three?” we don’t mill stock to 2 inches thick, we’d use 1 1/2", a third of which is 1/2". Y’all actually do use 19mm.
But Americans use inch fractions so inch fractions must be dumb and bad, right?
Aux@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Did you know you can use fractions with metric units? 1/3m is a thing.
Eyelessoozeguy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah it really only matters what you are comfortable with, if you get units you aren’t comfortable with then it gets confusing. I almost feel like metric folk don’t realize that the USA is like 50 EU states in size, and this disconnect causes them some rage at seeing imperial units. At the human level I still can’t comprehend Celsius, mostly cuz those numbers have meanings in fahrenheit, sure makes for some cognitive dissonance to heard 35 degrees thinking you would need snow gear to hearing it’s unbearably hot.
sep@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I would not mind if americans used whatever. As long as anything exported from america always!! used metric. As it is now we need 2 complete sets of nuts and bolts, pipes and fittings, tools and gizmos, csbles and connectors. Just imagine the space we could save in our shops and storages if we could /2 the requires spare part storage. Not to mention the time and frustration avoided when doing basically anything on almost anything.