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[–] 3 points 3 years ago (4 children)

If the date format is not YYYY-MM-DD it can fuck right off.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Everything is right about it:

    • Lexographic sort
    • Unambiguous months and days
    • Acceptable on any document of record (lab, legal, medical, personal)
    • Readable by nearly any culture (even us Americans)
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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    ISO 8601. Unironically the only ISO number I also remember.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Now this is the kind of shitposting I can get behind.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I like that every bar has a different scaling.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I love the mental gymnastics which have gone into the making of this infographic. Gold!

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Thanks! I hate it.

    But in all honesty, this is almost like being inside a Canadian's brain. I have to translate back and forth at work all the time, and even cooking involves converting things back and forth. I have no idea how many drams to a gallon, so I'll convert ounces to mL, then scale as necessary, and then convert back to US customary because the measuring cups and spoons are labelled in American.

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

    Don't Americans normally say "4th of July"?

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

    Fuck yeah. Because 100 being the temperature of a random woman measured during her menstrual cycle totally makes sense.

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

    I actually agree that the metric system has nice round numbers, but this graphic is a hilarious rebuttal to the first one that just draws pictures to make their preferred system look like it fits into the pretty pictures.

    Two can play at that game, lol.

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

    "Base 12" is nice because it is easy to divide into halves, quarters, thirds as whole numbers. The rest is a bit of a mess though, I guess.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I actually like fahrenheit for weather. 0 is really fucking cold, 100 is really fucking hot.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    I'm happy with metric generally speaking - except for Celsius when talking about ambient temperature. I will die on that hill. Freezing/boiling point of water is a ridiculous point of reference for temperature as experienced by humans.

    Fahrenheit: 0 = really cold; 100 = really hot

    Celsius: -17.778 = really cold; 38.333 = really hot

    Not to mention that the Celsius grading is too big requiring use of tenths when discussing weather and setting a thermostat...

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago*

    What? I have never ever had a discussion in my life about tenths of celsius when discussing weather or thermostat. Nobody does that. The units are small enough to be used in majors.

    Freezing is excellent point of reference when you think about what effects it has on our lives. When water freezes, roads get frozen. When water freezes, pipes might blow up. When temperature reaches 0 Fahrenheit, nothing happens. Everything is same as 1 fahrenheit, or -1 fahrenheit. Nothing has changed, it is completely arbitrary.

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