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minus-squaremicgerne@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·5 天前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.
minus-squareryathal@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·5 天前It’s arbitrary nonsense vs arbitrary nonsense.
minus-square[deleted]@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·5 天前I don’t know two languages but being in the US means I am fluent in both metric and imperial.
minus-squareSwingingTheLamp@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 天前Britain 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-up2·5 天前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.
minus-squareSwingingTheLamp@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 天前Yeah, but how else are we gonna rile up this comment section?
minus-squarecattywampas@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·5 天前Honestly. It’s not hard to know both.
minus-square[deleted]@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 天前I’ll bet you are smug in multiple languages.
minus-squaregastroglizzy@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down5·5 天前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.
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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.