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The greatest country in the world (lemmy.world)
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[–] 14 points 3 years ago (3 children)

09/08/2023 (I'm an American who doesn't care what everyone in my country uses if that "custom" is nonsense...)

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Do you use metric? :)

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (3 children)

    I use Fahrenheit just because it's a pain to get everything set to Celsius and other Americans don't understand it. But I use grams, kilos, millilitres, kilometres, etc. Yes. And if someone asks me to guess the length of an object I will give centimetres, and refuse to translate to inches and their stupid fractions.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yes. And if someone asks me to guess the length of an object I will give centimetres, and refuse to translate to inches and their stupid fractions.

    Some proud neckbeard shit right here. "Fuck communicating effectively with people. They don't even know I only use the metric system!"

    But yeah, got em... I guess.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago

    I kind of get it, it's like language immersion. How do you easily describe anything besides the freezing point and boiling point of water in an objective way? The rest, you can point to and say "this weighs a kilo" ot "this holds a liter." And if you don't force people to use it, they'll simply refuse. And we all carry handy unit conversion tools with us wherever we go these days, so if they don't want to learn, they can easily translate it themselves.

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