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minus-squaremicgerne@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·3 days agoI don’t get why this is a divisive topic. We’ve got arbitrary nonsense units vs sensible easy to understand measurements, where’s the debate? Clearly my preferred system of measurement is superior.
minus-squareryathal@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·3 days agoIt’s arbitrary nonsense vs arbitrary nonsense.
minus-square[deleted]@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·3 days agoI don’t know two languages but being in the US means I am fluent in both metric and imperial.
minus-squareSwingingTheLamp@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agoBritain uses Imperial, we use US Customary units. There is a difference. (They get more beer in a pint, for one.)
minus-square[deleted]@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-23 days agoAnd yet nobody brings that technicality up during those discussions because the terminology is the same since it is just a different version of the same thing.
minus-squareSwingingTheLamp@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 days agoYeah, but how else are we gonna rile up this comment section?
minus-squarecattywampas@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·3 days agoHonestly. It’s not hard to know both.
minus-square[deleted]@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoI’ll bet you are smug in multiple languages.
minus-squareCyril Strobe@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days agoWow, really? That’s interesting
minus-squarePetteriPano@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·3 days agoI can’t fathom why. (That’s 1.8288m)
minus-squaregastroglizzy@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down5·3 days agoMetric is good for math written on paper. Imperial is good for the guy working in the middle of a field without any way to measure.
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I don’t get why this is a divisive topic. We’ve got arbitrary nonsense units vs sensible easy to understand measurements, where’s the debate?
Clearly my preferred system of measurement is superior.
It’s arbitrary nonsense vs arbitrary nonsense.
I don’t know two languages but being in the US means I am fluent in both metric and imperial.
Britain uses Imperial, we use US Customary units. There is a difference. (They get more beer in a pint, for one.)
And yet nobody brings that technicality up during those discussions because the terminology is the same since it is just a different version of the same thing.
Yeah, but how else are we gonna rile up this comment section?
Honestly. It’s not hard to know both.
I’ll bet you are smug in multiple languages.
Si verdad.
Wow, really? That’s interesting
I can’t fathom why. (That’s 1.8288m)
Metric is good for math written on paper. Imperial is good for the guy working in the middle of a field without any way to measure.