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Comic strip of a ghost and a person with the American flag pasted on the head. The ghost repeats “Boo!” in the first three panels without getting any reaction, but when it in the fourth panel says “kg, cm, km, °C” the American gets scared and screams “AHHHH!!!”.
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The only properly measured thing Americans bring to their schools is 9mm’s 😔
Categorically false. They also bring 5.56x40mm.
Not in California though. You can own it, but you can’t buy nor shoot 5.56 or .223 on BLM or CA owned land. They’re also in the courts (appeals) to ban Assault rifles in the state.
Fuck California.
.9mm mechancal pencils (.7 breaks too easy)
As an American, I can confidently say I’m sick of this Imperial/SAE shit.
Length, volume and mass specifically (and derivatives, like PSI). Temperature is ok.
As a celsius user I have absolutely no need for fahrenheit. It needs more numbers when there is no need for more precision. Half a degree C is barely even noticable.
It’s one of those things that truly and honestly just doesn’t matter. Celsius makes more sense if you think about water freezing at 0 and boiling at 100, but beyond that it really doesn’t make a big difference.
what happens at 0 F?
I mean 0 C is when the water change its state, but then what happens at 0 F?
Nothing in particular, it’s an arbitrary starting point. But that’s really not a good reason to knock it.
Does water actually freeze at 0 celsius? It depends on the air pressure, right? I guess 0 celsius is the freezing point of water at sea level, but air pressure’s not consistent at all. I guess maybe it’s the temperature water freezes at the average air pressure at sea level? I assume that’s the case.
The point I’m trying to make is the Celsius isn’t super rock solid either, and it really doesn’t affect anything if water freezes at 0 or 32 degrees. The best argument for celsius is that it’s standard, but that doesn’t make necessarily make it better.
If we really cared about having a rock-solid starting point, we’d use Kelvin because you literally cannot go below 0.
yeah I was looking for something like “at 0 F something happens” as in Centigrades you can be sure that at 0C and with 1atm the water will freeze, instead of something arbitrary, so you can compare calibrate instruments
Well it doesn’t really matter what you were looking for lol. I promise you Fahrenheit thermometers are calibrated same as Celsius ones.
The lower point of Fahrenheight is near the freezing point of brine (salt water) which freezes at -6 F (-21 C).
It was designed around what the coldest day at the time of its invention could get and the 100F was marked around how hot the hottest day of the year at the timr would get. Hence its choice to scale 0-100 to local weather vs celcius’ choice to use kelvin and offset it to standardize it to pure water.
actually water melts at 0 deg it freezes below zero.
Freezing/melting does not have hysteresis
thanks for teaching me a new word :)
I use both equally well. Since both of them are base 10, no difference whatsoever. You just know the feeling of 70F or 21C.
Same, Fahrenheit rules.
Edit: Fahrenheit kicks ass, I just love it.
Edit: Sorry, still like it a lot.
Edit: I just love the scale.
Edit: Random thought, Fahrenheit is really great. I enjoy it and will continue to use it alongside metic units.
What really grinds my gears - literally - is having to have two sets of sockets because America. It’s really gets annoying when you lose your 10mm socket and the other one isn’t quite right, but you can’t work out is 18/32s is close enough and then you bust a nut.
I just hate the fact if 10mm is too big, I can get 9mm, but if 15/16 is too big, fuck me, I guess. Bringing the full toolbox over because what random fucking bullshit number comes before it?
Like I’m here to fix shit, not do math to figure out which socket is one size smaller.
Have you tried with √0,86?
I just read that as “socks”, which made the last sentence really weird
American cars have been using both metric and SAE fasteners since at least the 1980’s. I wish they would just gone all metric so I wouldn’t have to drag out two socket sets anytime I need to do anything.
You know what pissed me off earlier this year? We took a trip from the U.S. to Canada and my Prius didn’t even have the option to show kmph instead of mph on the dashboard. We looked through the manual, we looked online. My specific model doesn’t allow it. Why?!
Because freedom 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🦅🦅
LifeProTip glue pocket calculator to steering wheel for these urgent conversions on the road
World work better with “socialism.” Because screw capitalism.
Or gun control. Or free healthcare. Or abortion. Or a free online automated tax return system.
or public transport, ending the war on drugs, LGBTQ+ rights, fixing climate change, eating less meat, funding education, non-predatory student loans, living wage, affordable homes, ending slavery in prisons, ending corporations as people, ending super PACs and lobbying, and establishing ranked choice voting or even basic democratic concepts as one-man-one-vote.
Except in drug deals (kg), foot races (5km), and science (°C).
And school supplies (9mm)
America is totally used to the KKK
Arma players are more at home with km than miles because they never leave the basement to use it irl
(jk I am that guy)
Fuck, you scared me!
Y’all are just jealous because we’re not afraid of fractions
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Idk I get through life fine without all that. Never understood why people care so much.
This feels like projection to me.
Well, there is basically only one country that has been too afraid to change from its archaic measurement system to the internationally agreed upon standard.
3 actually, and it’s not a good group… And I’d like to say that most Americans actually support the idea of switching, but as a stubborn guy who uses metric for everything here I can sadly say that they are not by a long shot.
You know how to push peoples buttons
