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Hawk1291A funny skit about this and several other weird american standards:
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@davidvasandani @Hawk1291 Great, thx 🤣
Lore System@sopsack 1000 isn't highly composite though!
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The Other Doug Jones 🇨🇦😎🖖 Elbows Up!@sopsack Cue the "freedom units" response.
yaygya@dhj1961 when the freedom units are the ones based on those created by an imperial superpower and not the ones created in the country that overthrew its monarchy
Aviva Gary@sopsack lol the sad thing is this just helped me learn how many feet in a mile 😆
Amin Negm-Awad🇪🇺🌍@Aviva_Gary @sopsack It is a good thing that you haven't had to learn it.
ketchup71@Aviva_Gary @RA_Negm @sopsack I tend to think of the metric system as a system, where different aspects of the measured world are put in relation to each other.
On the opposite side, I see „freedom units“ not as a system, but a loose collection of specialized measurement standards. Each may make sense on its own, in its niche (which is why people cling to it), but they where never designed to work together.
Which is why I feel they should cease to exist.
😉🙂
On the opposite side, I see „freedom units“ not as a system, but a loose collection of specialized measurement standards. Each may make sense on its own, in its niche (which is why people cling to it), but they where never designed to work together.
Which is why I feel they should cease to exist.
😉🙂
@ketchup71 @RA_Negm @sopsack lol this is actually a pretty good explainer for the American System...
Don McKay 🍁@sopsack This reminds me of that quote from Wild Thing by Josh Bazell that made the rounds a while back.
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Abe@sopsack I'm not sure if it's making fun of the Brits or Americans...given y'know, the French.
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"Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn@sopsack The Drunken Lobster community would like a word
Venty 🇨🇭🫕@sopsack What do you expext from someone that counts 31 month by 12 days in a year?
@Venty exactly
Pxtl@Venty @sopsack American date format wouldn't be so bad if they didn't use slash as the separator character.
Slash means *of*. Sometimes it means *or*. Page 4 of 55: 4/55. One half - 1 out of 2: 1/2. He or she: He/she.
If US dates were 12.31/2024 it wouldn't be bad. Still not alphasorted, but not ambiguous and weird. But slash means "of".
Also POSIX filesystems made the same mistake since they use slash backwards there too.
Charles-Édouard Coste@sopsack now… let's explain Fahrenheit … :D
M Berberichbest explanation of imperial units (for length only):
Imperial Measurements Explained 🤣🤣🤣!!!
SellaTheChemist@sopsack One for that dimensional Luddite, @Protons4B
Kevin Karhan 
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OCRbot@b_age
To convert from mile Yeah. To convert from
to feet, remember "5 kilometers to meters,
tomatoes". It sounds you remember 1000
like 5-2-8-0, the because it wasn't
amount of feet in a invented by a drunken
mile. Cool huh? lobster. , 7
To convert from mile Yeah. To convert from
to feet, remember "5 kilometers to meters,
tomatoes". It sounds you remember 1000
like 5-2-8-0, the because it wasn't
amount of feet in a invented by a drunken
mile. Cool huh? lobster. , 7
Armchair Epistemologist@b_age Now go to sea, where not only do we have to remember two conversions from ft to miles, but also remember to establish which miles we are talking about.
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Joshua Crawford has moved@sopsack
There are two kinds of countries.
1. Those that use the metric system.
2. Those that have been to the moon.
There are two kinds of countries.
1. Those that use the metric system.
2. Those that have been to the moon.
Do you mean that moon, where the flag was waving in the wind 😂
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Nickoli@sopsack The way I handle this is by using the power of furlong!
Scott Williams 🐧@thias @sopsack American Standard and Imperial are different codified standards. American Standard is older by like 50 years, IIRC. Brits can call things what they want. It's not that we want the Brits to follow our standards - it's rather that we really couldn't care less because we have something that works for us. Apparently the differences weren't better or else UK would still be using it, but those were their choices. 🤷
@thias @sopsack Also, just because it comes up so much, Fahrenheit has nothing to do with Imperial. It's technically a metric measurement, but uses weather and the human body as baseline references rather than water, which is why Fahrenheit is somewhat more intuitive for weather and fever grades. Of course, Celsius is better for measuring water and stuff relative to it, but the concepts behind the measures are near identical except for the reference points affecting the scale.
@vwbusguy @sopsack I must admit I dislike having domain specific measurement units, this yields siloed thinking and obfuscation, I can see the point of extreme units like electron/volts or light-years, but in the general case, this is just the way of clothing sizes… this is also my problem with imperial length units, they are disconnected feets are one thing, miles another and the relationship between them is tenuous.
@vwbusguy @sopsack that’s my point, domain specific "units” are at best a way to protect some trade group, at worst an obfucation scam. This is one thing I liked in Japan: shoe sizes are centimetres, sadly they generally did not have my size. Disconnected units just prevent people from understanding and comparing. It’s easy to figure out the weight of an A4, 80g/square meter sheet of paper, who knows the weight of 20£ US letter sheet?
@vwbusguy @sopsack the question is how do you compute the weight of a single sheet of US paper. You need to figure out the surface of a US letter and the magical formula linking paper pounds to some surface. AX paper is by definition 1/2^X square meter and weight is given by square meter. One formula is guild secret, the other is trivial.