I wonder, when they get a grown-up president again, will they finally also begin to move to the 21st century?
Again???
Centimeters are on the American ruler…
We also put inches on ours, yet not a single soul has ever used that side. I think it’s only to constantly remind us we are superior ;)
The only thing on a real American ruler is red white and blue .
I thought he is orange
His preferred title is typically translated as “leader” not “ruler” that’s got monarchist elements that they can’t quite make stick yet
You can’t rule a country off a cliff, only lead.
Why don’t they just round that guy’s votes up to 60?
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As an American mechanical engineer, i do more unit conversions between metric and standard/ uscs than many people do in a lifetime
Hell just today I designed a custom spring in both as i need it asap and have to settle for the inch
Canadian engineer here. Although we use the metric system in principle, in reality we use feet and inches for everything. There are lots of benefits to using base 12 for measurements.
The number 12 has six factors, which are 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 12. It is the smallest number to have six factors, the largest number to have at least half of the numbers below it as divisors, and is only slightly larger than 10. (The numbers 18 and 20 also have six factors but are much larger.) Ten, in contrast, only has four factors, which are 1, 2, 5, and 10.
I get the Europeans hate it though because only the people who live near Chernobyl can count to 12 on their fingers.
Btw you can count to 12 on your fingers with one hand. Starting from the end of the index finger tap each segment of the “remaining” four fingers with your thumb.
I heard someone claim that’s how Babylonians invented and used the base 12 system in the first place.
The thing is, we just use whole numbers. If you get under 1, then you move down by one SI prefix et voilà, you have whole numbers again
I’ve never thought of counting on fingers as a good reason for using it for units. But since our numeric system is base 10 (likely because of having 10 fingers indeed), it’s easier to have our unit systems as base 10 too. If we all learned to think in base 12 from ground up, having base 12 units would make a lot more sense too
I know it’ll never happen but I’m still camp duodecimal, all the way.
We occasionally get engineering diagrams from clients in the US and they’re always going on about screws that are 2/3 of an inch long. It’s not just that you’re not using metric you’re using a weird fraction and not a decimal.
It’s super confusing when you get into high precision stuff because then they start going on about 128th of an inch. Just tell me how big you want it, stop telling me what fraction of a different measurement it is. Surely there is something below inch that you could use. I still wouldn’t know what you were talking about, but at least it would look less stupid when you wrote it down.
Isn’t the UK just as bad? You have a zoo of units over there. Stone, miles, pints, etc.
The US is the only country that uses non-metric units when doing anything industrial though. I might buy a pint of milk but I’m not going to measure in anything but metres and centimetres.
You’ve unlocked: the number 10
Bro 10mm rounds exist
Here’s the funny thing. A 9mm is closer to a cm. The rim is 9.96mm.
.40 S&W and 10mm auto are both 10mm rounds!
Yeah but they’re not interchangeable.
.40 S&W and 10mm auto are both 10mm rounds!
I don’t trust you, stranger number man! And the above… well that just proves there’s a conspiracy!
Brah, does stranger danger apply to the metric system??
B’aint nothin stranger than an american, if that helps.
Oh my, yes!
Can US people imagine their size in a whim?
We can’t imagine 9mm on a whim either.
Probably not. It’s a fairly rare round outside of fallout.
“Anything but the metric system”… Well kinda
One AAA battery
The metric system, but with extra steps.
The metric system but with warthogs, refrigerators and football fields. That’s .64 football fields, or .48 decawarthogs.
Its about 40 caliber.
How many grain?
Width, not length.
volume? (i thought grain was volume, sort-of)
A grain is just an old system of weight. 1 grain is about 64 mg. I was tested on grain based dosages in school but never saw them used in real life.
It’s projectile weight. The common sizes of 9x19mm ammunition (what we usually mean when we say 9mm), are 115 grain, 124 grain, and 147 grain. NATO standard is 124, but most people shoot 115 at the range because it has less weight and it cheaper.
Lighter projectiles, all else being equal, will have higher muzzle velocities, but will also slow down more quickly and are more prone to wind shift.
Mass, like a church? Like like the measures on the façade of the Torre Civica in Assisi?
/s, #anything but metric
The Americans could’ve changed to the metric system if they could afford it. However, changing a country’s systems of measurement is a mammoth project of enormous complexity and cost, so I guess no politician want to make space for that in the budget when there are other things to take care of.
Maybe people will forget about the epstein files if he tries changing to metric
Genuinely, that would be the funniest reason… Maybe we should be inundating Trump with recommendations like this to ‘fix’ his approval ratings.
… and then hang him anyways after the next Nuremberg trials.
… and then hang him anyways after the next Nuremberg trials.
Don’t be silly, you lot are going to gold plate his pension and that of his family for decades to come. LOL next Nuremberg trials. Who are you kidding?
So you’re saying the rest of the world is just going to roll over and let the Holocaust 2.0 happen?
Your lack of faith in everyone non-American is disturbing…
If I’m honest, yes.
The US is going to protect him and his family for generations. Nobody… and I mean nobody, is going to challenge that. There’ll be no trials, there’ll be no reparations, there’ll be no apologies, there certainly won’t be any hangings. The best we can hope for is a gradual backing down of the extreme “fuck everyone” stance the US is in right now.
What have you seen to suggest otherwise?
(Nice star wars reference btw)
As a non American who lives in the country that was responsible for the Holocaust and is now I think second biggest donor of the Zionist project (second after the US), I’m not too sure people learn from history. “Never again” has always been a lie
It has always been a lie for those who do not view human rights as inalienable rights.
Conservatives around the world are simply proving that they are absolute trash.
Europe certainly will.
People just don’t really care enough to. And we already use the metric system in science, engineering, medicine, aerospace, military, and any science class in high school or higher. So what if our road signs and cookbooks are in imperial units.
when you put it like that we’re pretty much on par with the UK’s adoption of metric
UK merchants must list their prices in metric
Recipes being imperial is the dumbest thing ever and I always convert mine. “Two cups and one tablespoon flour” statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged. I will defend feet/inches though for very specific cases where you may be dividing something into thirds like sometimes with woodworking
