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[–] 77 points 3 years ago (1 child)

The red squiggly underlines make me sad.

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

    I’m an American and I approve this message.

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

    I just awoke from 21ks of sleep.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago* (4 children)

    This just made me think, why haven't those damn commie Europeans with their fancy metric system come up with a better system for measuring time yet?

    People like to talk a lot of shit about how subjective the definitions for an inch or a mile are, but I never hear complaints about how a second or an hour are antiquated and based on things that only make sense from an Earth-centric point of view.

    I just feel like someone be mad at Americans for still using hours (ugh, trivially decided on the amount of time it takes the Earth to rotate) and not something like the amount of time it takes for 1 kilogram of water to decay via natural radiation when under a vacuum.

    By the way, before downvoting, this post is heavy with /s in case it wasn't obvious.

    Edit: I just looked up the formal definition of a second and it is "the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom".

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 children)

    It's all so arbitrary is funny. People get so passionate, but then I'll bring up,"Why aren't we using Swatch Time?" Or, why don't we have 13 months of exactly 28 days (With a bonus vacation day or two)?

    They'll usually fall back on what people are used to or tradition or something that just supports staying on imperial measurements. To be clear, I don't give a shit what measurement system is used. It's not like it takes a big brain to figure out what is going on when you travel.

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  • [–] 43 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    God, I wish we used this here. It is such a better system than our system of potholes being measured in washing machines in some parts of the country.

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    [–] 39 points 3 years ago (1 child)
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    American who just woke up... upvote cuz metric

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  • [–] 25 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    I don't think I've ever seen thousands separators in decimals

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    [–] 24 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Where are the metric units? All I see is prefixes explained

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

    My sibling in Satan, that's the backbone of the metric system. Nobody said anything about units.

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

    The list isn't even complete

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

    Should have been millo, cento, deco, hecta and kila instead of milli, centi, deci, hecto, and kilo.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    And kilo should have been K nit k, and all should have matching characters not k-m, M-μ, G-n, T-p, P-f, E-a.
    Only Z-z, Y-y, Q-q, R-r are nice.

    μ is probably the greatest sin as it isn't present on way too many keyboard layouts.

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    [–] 17 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

    Joke's on you; I'm an insomniac.

    And FWIW we use the metric system too. We just tend to mix it with US Customary, like how Canada and The UK does with Metric and Imperial. Except the UK uses more Metric than Imperial. Vice versa for the US. Food is sold using both. Science and computing are always in Metric. And a few other things too but it's 4am and I'm too tired to think.

    Edit: I don't even know how a CPU's temperature translates to Fahrenheit, but for weather it makes perfect sense. I know that 100°F is hot for outside, and that 80°C is hot for a processor. But I couldn't tell you what is what if you swapped the measurements.

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    [–] 16 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    nooooo my teaspoon measurements!

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago

    This isn’t the metric system.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    This is wrong. Some identifiers should start with a lowercase letter (like kilo)

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    [–] 13 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    And then there're the Americans who point at the Metric system and scream "why not us". Which is anyone who's sane and not afraid of change.

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    [–] 13 points 3 years ago

    Sleep deprived Canadian approves.

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

    Damn, I did 2 years of physics studies but I never heard about atto and exa. Though I did spend a lot of time to try to memorise the other ones.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago

    American here up voting because sane measurements.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    It's just so confusing, the American system is so much better /s

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  • [+] 8 points 3 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
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  • American expat upvoting for science

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    I wait to the day the US rejects the metric completely, and invents a new system for Voltage measurement (proposed unit names: cell, shock, spark).

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    [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    it's beautiful

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