WTF is a meter?

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• yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  First time ive ever used this template without needing to change the country

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  Nicely done OP

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• ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s rare that one of these makes the American side more appealing. You’re shooting yourself in the…well, you know.

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  • Mok98@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why the hell would I shoot myself in the meter?

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  • daggermoon@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Literally the one time i’m not ashamed to be an American. I’m actually really sad about it.

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• Godric@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  American here, meters are tools for measuring things! Voltmeter measure volts, speedometers measure speed, etc.

  Makes me nervous when I’m walking around, because every step I take my phone’s pedometer detects another one :'(

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  • tarn_rep@fedinsfw.app ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Just get a metermeter for lengths!

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• nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I am not an American, but I want to get measured.

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  • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Are paws okay? 🐾

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    • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Only puppy paws. No cats allowed. Damn claws keep ruining the furniture.

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  • daggermoon@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Join us, we’re lonely.

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  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Incidentally I don’t know how many feet I measure

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• gray@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Please don’t try to make imperial system look cool

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• ChocolateFrostedSugarBombs@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Measure me mommy.

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• MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We need to sexualise the metric system.

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  • Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nothing stops us from measuring our dicks in Gm…

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• Toes@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Measure me please 🥺

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• daggermoon@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  God, I love feet.

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• nonentity@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The US fought, and apparently won, an entire war, to get out from under the boot which they insist on continuing to measure things by.

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• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Meter? I hardly know 'er!

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• jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It looks like the people on top have a giant calf and foot for legs and feet. And one of them the foot is backwards.

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  • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What?

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    • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I can’t explain my insanity.

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  • HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I was going to say the same thing.

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  • TerraRoot@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Two left feet, wonder what kinda measuring system that is.

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    • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The foot on the fact is a right foot though?

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    • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Those are definitely not two left feet. That is a left and a right foot.

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• Soulg@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How many dead horses

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  • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There’s a whole com for this stuff.

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  • ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A baker’s dozens worth

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• SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  False, Europeans measure in metres

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  • wieson@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Or mètre, metro, mittari, metr, Meter, måler, méadar, metroa, metritis, metar

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• 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  IIRC, the meter stems from a fraction of an Earth’s length, so you know what to do

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• possessedfaxmachine666@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of ⁠1/299792458⁠ of a second will always be superior to some stinky foot. Or an inch. Or a football field (Hand-egg one?)

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  • EyIchFragDochNur@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    1 metre = 10 decimetres = 100 centimetres. Not sure how you calculate but this could be the point

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  • wer2@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But why not 1/300000000 of a second?

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  • Flower@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You can use yard. It’s 0.914 meter so close enough. If they ask how many feet and inch that is, that’s an imperial problem.

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• osanna@lemmy.vg ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  no it’s not. WTF barely a couple cm.

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• Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wait till you hear how people measure the height of horses.

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• deadymouse@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Damn, now I’m wondering in which country a person is measured with knives or firearms?

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• Siethron@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This post made Miyazaki (Dark souls) want to move to the US.

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