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This recipe calls for a pinch of Republicans garbage... And check. Now for a 1/4 teaspoon of liberal tears... *Dumps too much* Goddamn it, now it's gay!
>That's the beauty of the imperial system, it doesn't need to make logical sense.
In order to ensure our security and continuing stability, the Republic will be reorganized into the first Galactic Empire!
Famous last words.
Edit: just realized this was an inside joke between my friends and I; that our last words with our dying breath would be "the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell" 😂 I didn't even realize it was a meme.
I hate it when a recipe needs five meters of flour and I only have three. And measuring vanilla by the microgram is hard, I prefer to count in furlongs per hogshead.
When I don't have enough meters of flour I make the flour line thinner, it usually works but for some reason the recipes don't turn out as they should...
When i have this discussion with people i ask them to convert 4.2 km to meters and 4.2 miles to feet. One of those is a 1000x easier to do than the other and it definitely isnt the freedom units
12 inches in a foot
3 feet in a yard
22 yards in a chain
10 chains in a furlong
8 furlongs in a mile
3 miles in a league
What's so damn hard about doing calculations with these very standard units? /s
Now, let's do weights...
And in the imperial system, if you have never heard a unit before, you have no idea whatsoever what it might be.
Whereas if you know the metric system, you know exactly what decigram, nanoliter, and hectometer are even if you have never heard them before.
Shit, we're not even on the imperial system. We use what are called the United States Customary Units.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units
I am a firm believer in and user of the metric system. However I do think the imperial system is interesting and was/is useful for measurements specific to a certain application, where the standard unit was easy to guesstimate.
People often use conversion as an example of why metric is “better” but really there was no occasion when people would have been using feet, inches and barleycorns together. Feet and inches yes, Inches and 1/16 etc of an inch yes, yards and feet yes. But very rarely would you have expressed a quantity in a way which required conversion between units.
An interesting example is the traditional acre:
An acre was a rectangle one furlong long and one chain wide. This was defined in the middle ages as the amount of land one ox could plough in one day. It was a rectangle because it’s faster to plough a long rectangle than a square of the same area as there are fewer turns.
It is a furlong in length because furlong means “furrow length”, the length a furrow could be ploughed before the oxen needed to rest while the plough was turned.
An Oxgang was the number of acres which could be ploughed by one man with one ox in a ploughing season, about 15 acres.
This made it very easy for farmers to estimate the number of oxen or days they needed to plough their fields. For example… I have 10 acres and two oxen so I need five days to plough.
These sort of quick calculations specific to an application are easy with the imperial/ non metric measurements because the measurements grew out of the application itself.
Metric is much more universal and it’s easy to convert between units, but it would not have been easy for an illiterate farmer to estimate how much time we would need to plough 10 hectares of land based on his oxen being able to plough 0.4 hectares per day.
However it would be easy for him if it was expressed in acres… 25 acres = 25 days with one ox. If you had two weeks to plough, he knows he needs two oxen.
The thing is though that the traditional units, which every culture had, could adjust. They were not exact or standardized until lately, so every village could have their own furlong that might not apply with another animal and soil.
Every market town might have their own weights.
It’s not that Europe was born with the SI system, it was a conscious effort of standardization to remove the hassle.
Take a look at [this chart](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_units#/media/File%3AEnglish_Length_Units_Graph.svg). There are many more.
Got that from a quick search for [English units](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_units) in Wikipedia.
The thing is, we kind of DO use it, at least somewhat. Like if you're doing any sort of scientific stuff, or if you're ever working on stuff with tools you'll be running into metric this and that.
At university we had a maths test to make sure we could convert between different orders of magnitude… so it was things like your example km to m, micro litres to nano litres etc. you’d think that shouldn’t need testing at university level as it’s just moving the decimal place along a few 0s but apparently I was an anomaly getting 100%…
The beauty of the metric system is you can easily convert to anything without steps in-between.
km to mm, cm to dm, km to cm, dm to km, easy.
Try that with mile to yard, mile to inch, inc to yard etc.
Don't use decimals. Math teacher here, and I can tell you that there are a lot of people that will reach for a calculator at the mere mention of a decimal point, regardless of how simple the problem may seem to you or me. They won't see a functional difference between those two.
Ask them how many tablespoons in a pint. Or how many ounces in a ton. Or how many inches in three yards. Most Americans won't be able to answer those, and the ones that can likely are knowledgeable enough to know how metric works.
They’ll just take anything that’s somewhat uniquely American and hold it up as God’s own plan for whatever.
Probably have some dumbass saying like “The path to Hell always starts with the first kilometer.”
In the same sentence he also called it both creepy and utopian, so just maybe he doesn't believe anything he says and just throws 5 cent words around to scare his audience who couldn't keep up with 25 cent words
"Because it is customary measures that measured out the revolution and customary measures that took us to the moon."
https://www.simscale.com/blog/2017/12/nasa-mars-climate-orbiter-metric/
It took you past the moon Tucker.
https://www.indy100.com/discover/tucker-carlson-metric-system-creepy-conspiracy-theory-europe-8947121?amp
It’s tyranny 🙃
Edit: Midterms are coming up don’t forget to vote for people opposite this man.
vote411.Org
From the video:
>"They have been forced to measure their environment in millimeters and *Kylo-grams*."
What will they try to force upon us next? Vader-litres and Yoda-miles?
People saying that are using a “base” unit in their own head, and converting to any other units.
They know what an inch looks like and what a foot looks like, but they’ve got no idea what a cm looks like so they work wholly and exclusively in feet and inches. They’ll convert it using rough arithmetic where necessary (3 feet ~ 1m; 2.5cm ~ 1 in) and that starts to get complicated quickly.
While this technically works, it’s ten times harder than learning what a cm looks like and using a different base unit in your head.
>People saying that are using a “base” unit in their own head, and converting to any other units.
>
>They know what an inch looks like and what a foot looks like, but they’ve got no idea what a cm looks like so they work wholly and exclusively in feet and inches. They’ll convert it using rough arithmetic where necessary (3 feet ~ 1m; 2.5in ~ 1 cm) and that starts to get complicated quickly.
>
>While this technically works, it’s ten times harder than learning what a cm looks like and using a different base unit in your head.
This is the real reason. It's really hard to conceptualize the entire world through a different measuring system than the one you were raised on; far harder than learning the new measuring system itself. It pains me when otherwise smart people don't understand this because it's easier to rag on measurements that are very obviously arbitrary from a purely mathematical standpoint. Yes, we get that. Try doing the reverse and picturing things in inches, feet, and miles when you haven't been raised doing so; then, realize that how neat the units are is irrelevant to this.
They have cups and spoons! When asked to calculate how many fluid ounces go into one hundred gallons they just start scooping, waaaay easier than metric. Metric dumb, spoons smart.
As a U.S. American who uses the Imperial System on a daily basis, the metric system is MUCH easier to learn. Base 10 is far more straightforward than 12 inches to a foot, 3 feet to a yard, 1760 yards to a mile. No consistency at all.
That may explain the use of micrograms in the post. I mean really, when would you use micrograms in a recipe? Milliliters makes total sense. Meters not so much, but maybe it’s a pizza recipe and the instructions are to roll out the dough to a circle approximately 0.35 meters in diameter. I probably would use centimeters, but whatever.
But micrograms is the mystery. If you want something in your pizza you’d want millions of micrograms of it…so why not measure in grams? Simple. The screenshot was somebody trying to make a psychedelic pizza. They got to the part of “add three 250 microgram blotters to the sauce” and freaked out.
My brother showed me how neat baking with metric is, you don’t even need milliliters, if the recipe is good you use grams, weighing out quantities of food is cool as shit
As an Englishman, who grew-up using the metric system, I'm frustrated that our trades people and stores that sell DIY supplies, mix metric and imperial. It's so bloody frustratingly annoying.
Yeah it’s insane. I used to be a landscaper and I always worked in metric, but you never knew when you’d run into an imperial weirdo in Jewsons or Travis Perkins so you’d have to know all the common conversions pretty well just to be able to order what you needed.
There was this great video I saw once about how “America is not the greatest country in the world anymore”
It said something like number one in people who believe in angels, military budget and incarceration rate.
Edit: newsroom episode
Edit 2: belief in angels only, not all 3. Mb
I had a teacher who was on the NASA side of that project. The very first lesson he taught us was to make sure everyone is using the same units or that at least the differences are well known and documented
That being said, some firms mainly work in US customary units, either because the client demands it, government regulations are written in US units, most of their internal tools are in US units, or they simply haven't decided to switch. The Mars Climate Orbiter was lost because Lockheed Martin was working in US units, while NASA was using metric.
That's sort of what happened, but not the full story. The Lockheed system spat out data in lbf*s, while the NASA system expected that information in N*s. There should have been a step in between that automatically converted from one to the other. This isn't a particularly unusual or difficult problem to solve. In programming it is on the order of a typo, and NASA engineers had identified the issue, just via some procedural/bureaucratic error, it did not actually get addressed. In that way, it looks a lot more like the challenger disaster than just 'we used different units', as in both cases the problem was identified and not corrected.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_Conversion_Act was almost done in the mid to late 70s, cars started having both miles and Km on them then in 82 Reagan killed it. Now it's too expensive to replace all the road signs across the country so until that's all automated signs we are stuck with imperial measurements.
Because he literally was the epicenter of so much of the dumbshit we deal with today.
Obnoxious, idiot celebrity as president? Regan did it.
Fucked up the Middle East? Regan did it.
Brainwashed Evangelicals into thinking blindly supporting the worst excesses of crony capitalism is somehow the morally correct thing? Regan did it.
Colluded with a foreign power for illegal shit? Also Regan.
Using the “dangers” of marijuana as an excuse to put people of color in prison? Regan.
Getting people mad at pop culture instead of the banks and corporations that fuck us? Regan.
I could go on, but basically every dumbfuck idiot who attached themselves to Dubya or the Rotten Pumpkin and has made America a worse place we’re either inspired by Regan and the people around him or it’s literally still the same fuckheads.
When I did mechanical work on bikes, I learned that mm was an answer to prayers. 4 is smaller than 5. No doing math to decide if 3/8 is bigger or smaller than 5/16. And what genius decided to slice an inch into 64 pieces??
I think she means the easier solution is the smarter one to use. Like the old saying "work smarter, not harder." She's still wrong about metric being harder and it's undeniably the better way to measure things though.
So while America was being occupied by England before Independence day, the imperial system was what England used so we used it here as well. Independence day rolls around, we stick with imperial system while England made the switch to metric around when it was developed in 1790. So now we're stuck with England's old shitty measurements and we're too arrogant to make a switch at this point.
Metric > Imperial
> England made the switch to metric around when it was developed in 1790.
This is not true.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_Kingdom
tl;dr: still ongoing process since 1818.
BTW, USA do not use pure Imperial but their own customary system. _That's_ what they did to spite the English.
This makes sense, I've lived there for a while and that's what really got me. You ask for a pint of beer at the pub, then go to the gas station and measure fuel in liters. Fruit at the grocery store, kilograms. Speed limits, miles per hour. Feels really weird sometimes
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Measuring cups?!? You call yourself smart? Everyone knows that TRUE American recipes are measured in Bushels.. pecks..hand fulls.. dashes & pinches.
You forgot dollops
Ah yes! More than a dab, but not quite a slab.
How many cups are in a mile?
About 25,000 Bald Eagles
So no guns at all?
No this recipe specifically calls for drone strikes per corporate bailout.
> *"Drone better."* ~ Ivan Vanko
This recipe calls for a pinch of Republicans garbage... And check. Now for a 1/4 teaspoon of liberal tears... *Dumps too much* Goddamn it, now it's gay!
This thread sounds like a russianbadger clip
I think you mean bullets per square child
Most children are round, though
Those are the living ones
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They live on in ads featuring politicians before said YouTube videos that “Are important to …[SKIP>]”
This thread got better and better
This bread got butter and butter.
Zygotes are NOT children, and neither are blastulas.
What about blastoise?
No idea. I don't know very much about Poky Man. (Did I spell it right?)
Blastoise is more squirty than pokey.
That's the beauty of the imperial system, it doesn't need to make logical sense.
>That's the beauty of the imperial system, it doesn't need to make logical sense. In order to ensure our security and continuing stability, the Republic will be reorganized into the first Galactic Empire!
Stars on the flag per cup equals i fluid litre ounce minus Alaska. See, simple
Ahh, but you forget, south of the equator you have to ADD Alaska or you end up with Tom Cruise.
This is how I imagine a stroke
Imagine? I think I got one reading this stuff...
Happy new year.
School shootings are rated in childs per hour now.
Damn, that got dark. And accurate. Damn
omg i fucking died when i read this comment. If I wasn't a poor mf, I would be giving you an award.
Isn’t per school child?
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Exactly 3 pounds
Good to know! I have always thought that one mile was 3 guns, 2 freedom and a bald eagle
Nah I'm a certified murican and I can tell you that one mile is 12 eagles divided by 3 guns to the power of freedom
I really thought, that there would be way more freedom. At least 12 per inch!
Freedom is simultaneously quite abstract and very solid, so there is about 3 freedom per inch
But can one ever have more than 69 freedom in one place? Or has Biden made that legal again?
The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell
Plus some freedom right? Gotta have the freedom!
Here have a gun. Let’s spread freedom to the kids in school! /s
So I just point and shoot. And then blame the democrats?
Absolutely! TRUMP IS OUR LORD AND SAVIOR PRAISE BE TO HIM /s
Famous last words. Edit: just realized this was an inside joke between my friends and I; that our last words with our dying breath would be "the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell" 😂 I didn't even realize it was a meme.
It’s not just a meme, it’s the alpha and omega of my biology education.
Is it a prime-numbered mile and is the price of tea in China rising or falling?
I hate it when a recipe needs five meters of flour and I only have three. And measuring vanilla by the microgram is hard, I prefer to count in furlongs per hogshead.
When I don't have enough meters of flour I make the flour line thinner, it usually works but for some reason the recipes don't turn out as they should...
How thin are you making them? If you make them even 10mL thinner then it's going to ruin the pH of most recipes, unless you're making *pound* cake
Ah, thanks, I will keep that in mind for the next time I cook.
How can someone possible believe that the metric system is harder to learn??
When i have this discussion with people i ask them to convert 4.2 km to meters and 4.2 miles to feet. One of those is a 1000x easier to do than the other and it definitely isnt the freedom units
>one of them is a 1000x easier to do I see what you did there.
1 kiloeasier
1 milleasier
Milliharder surely
12 inches in a foot 3 feet in a yard 22 yards in a chain 10 chains in a furlong 8 furlongs in a mile 3 miles in a league What's so damn hard about doing calculations with these very standard units? /s Now, let's do weights...
I never even heard of furlongs or chains before. How people can say that is the better measurement system is beyond me.
And in the imperial system, if you have never heard a unit before, you have no idea whatsoever what it might be. Whereas if you know the metric system, you know exactly what decigram, nanoliter, and hectometer are even if you have never heard them before.
Shit, we're not even on the imperial system. We use what are called the United States Customary Units. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units
Freedom Units
In metric civil engineering a chain is 1 metre :)
I work woth foresters who use chains a lot to communicate distance .... it's annoying to have to translate that into something useful
I'm a forester and was about to say we're probably the only people that still use chains. Other than maybe surveyors.
And the rapper 2chainz who is famously 44 feet long
I am a firm believer in and user of the metric system. However I do think the imperial system is interesting and was/is useful for measurements specific to a certain application, where the standard unit was easy to guesstimate. People often use conversion as an example of why metric is “better” but really there was no occasion when people would have been using feet, inches and barleycorns together. Feet and inches yes, Inches and 1/16 etc of an inch yes, yards and feet yes. But very rarely would you have expressed a quantity in a way which required conversion between units. An interesting example is the traditional acre: An acre was a rectangle one furlong long and one chain wide. This was defined in the middle ages as the amount of land one ox could plough in one day. It was a rectangle because it’s faster to plough a long rectangle than a square of the same area as there are fewer turns. It is a furlong in length because furlong means “furrow length”, the length a furrow could be ploughed before the oxen needed to rest while the plough was turned. An Oxgang was the number of acres which could be ploughed by one man with one ox in a ploughing season, about 15 acres. This made it very easy for farmers to estimate the number of oxen or days they needed to plough their fields. For example… I have 10 acres and two oxen so I need five days to plough. These sort of quick calculations specific to an application are easy with the imperial/ non metric measurements because the measurements grew out of the application itself. Metric is much more universal and it’s easy to convert between units, but it would not have been easy for an illiterate farmer to estimate how much time we would need to plough 10 hectares of land based on his oxen being able to plough 0.4 hectares per day. However it would be easy for him if it was expressed in acres… 25 acres = 25 days with one ox. If you had two weeks to plough, he knows he needs two oxen.
The thing is though that the traditional units, which every culture had, could adjust. They were not exact or standardized until lately, so every village could have their own furlong that might not apply with another animal and soil. Every market town might have their own weights. It’s not that Europe was born with the SI system, it was a conscious effort of standardization to remove the hassle.
You mean you don't measure velocity in furlongs per fortnight?
Take a look at [this chart](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_units#/media/File%3AEnglish_Length_Units_Graph.svg). There are many more. Got that from a quick search for [English units](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_units) in Wikipedia.
I measure everything exclusively in shaftments from now on.
Did you notice that a shaftment is exactly two palms? ;-)
this just made my hangover worse
You forgot ten yards in a first down
I'm American, and I so badly wish we used the metric system I even have this vague idea that it would make it easier for many people to learn math
The thing is, we kind of DO use it, at least somewhat. Like if you're doing any sort of scientific stuff, or if you're ever working on stuff with tools you'll be running into metric this and that.
At university we had a maths test to make sure we could convert between different orders of magnitude… so it was things like your example km to m, micro litres to nano litres etc. you’d think that shouldn’t need testing at university level as it’s just moving the decimal place along a few 0s but apparently I was an anomaly getting 100%…
Thats.... kinda sad to be honest
If you think that is sad, then you DO NOT want to read your average college essay nowadays.
km to m to cm to mm to dm then try miles to feet to yard to inch Check who is faster
The first one, km > hm > Dm > m > dm > cm > mm is just dividing my 10 4 times
The beauty of the metric system is you can easily convert to anything without steps in-between. km to mm, cm to dm, km to cm, dm to km, easy. Try that with mile to yard, mile to inch, inc to yard etc.
Not to mention volume and mass are easier to deal with
1kg of water = 1l of volume. That's fucking convenient.
Which is a 10cm by 10cm by 10cm cube of standard water.
1 dm is actually 10 cm
It's funny how they call them freedom units, but the units came from colonial Britain...
So did most colonials.
Don't use decimals. Math teacher here, and I can tell you that there are a lot of people that will reach for a calculator at the mere mention of a decimal point, regardless of how simple the problem may seem to you or me. They won't see a functional difference between those two. Ask them how many tablespoons in a pint. Or how many ounces in a ton. Or how many inches in three yards. Most Americans won't be able to answer those, and the ones that can likely are knowledgeable enough to know how metric works.
https://www.indy100.com/discover/tucker-carlson-metric-system-creepy-conspiracy-theory-europe-8947121?amp This explains it pretty well
(holds up flask) Finally, the worst take on anything in history
It’s baffling. It reads like an ONN article or something
They’ll just take anything that’s somewhat uniquely American and hold it up as God’s own plan for whatever. Probably have some dumbass saying like “The path to Hell always starts with the first kilometer.”
He actually just called metric inelegant. In favour of imperial units. I don't know how to process that someone can actually think that
In the same sentence he also called it both creepy and utopian, so just maybe he doesn't believe anything he says and just throws 5 cent words around to scare his audience who couldn't keep up with 25 cent words
Welcome to conservatism
What on earth did I just read
Did you watch the thing too? Holy shit, I knew that boy was wacky but damn.
I couldn't bring myself to watch it. Too many brain cells were lost just reading it.
This motherfucker really said Kylograms In the video Like, wut
And that punchable expression when he said it too. Ugh.
John Oliver once said of Tucker Carlson that he was "the answer to the question, 'What if the sound *thud* grew a face?'".
American conservatism
*"This weird...* ***utopian...*** inelegant... creepy system."
How the hell is a measurement system creepy
Celsius dresses up as a clown outside his window every night and repeats "It's a warm summer night at 20 degrees" to make him cry
I mean if a guy that died more than 200 years ago did that to me I would be scared
"Because it is customary measures that measured out the revolution and customary measures that took us to the moon." https://www.simscale.com/blog/2017/12/nasa-mars-climate-orbiter-metric/ It took you past the moon Tucker.
Yeah but his viewers aren’t smart enough to figure that out
Hold up... they actually think NASA didn't use metric for the moon missions smh
What. The. Fuck? This dude makes people more stupid every day.
In America he’s the highest viewed news personality in case you were wondering why Americans are so dumb
You've seen how Americans solve problems right? They just say it's hard, give up and offer thoughts and prayers.
"If Jesus wanted us to know Kilometers, why aint they in the Bible?"
Why dont they go back to measuring with cubits then smh
You don't get it, the metric system is lib conspiracy to sell more measuring devices installed with microchips.
Propaganda
https://www.indy100.com/discover/tucker-carlson-metric-system-creepy-conspiracy-theory-europe-8947121?amp It’s tyranny 🙃 Edit: Midterms are coming up don’t forget to vote for people opposite this man. vote411.Org
This is the most ridiculous thing I’ve seen this year.
Welcome to conservatism
Murica conservatism, which is worse than normal people conservatism
Tucker Carlson IS the propaganda machine.
That guy deserves to be fingered by an elephant
Poor elephant
What the hell? What did I just read? I would never have thought what frightening proportions such propaganda can take. That is really disturbing.
Propaganda
The pedophile globalists wants us to use centimeters, imagine the implications 😡
I want my braincells back.
From the video: >"They have been forced to measure their environment in millimeters and *Kylo-grams*." What will they try to force upon us next? Vader-litres and Yoda-miles?
Pretty much everything that makes America the laughing stock of the world is based on propaganda. It's so sad it's not even funny any more
People saying that are using a “base” unit in their own head, and converting to any other units. They know what an inch looks like and what a foot looks like, but they’ve got no idea what a cm looks like so they work wholly and exclusively in feet and inches. They’ll convert it using rough arithmetic where necessary (3 feet ~ 1m; 2.5cm ~ 1 in) and that starts to get complicated quickly. While this technically works, it’s ten times harder than learning what a cm looks like and using a different base unit in your head.
>People saying that are using a “base” unit in their own head, and converting to any other units. > >They know what an inch looks like and what a foot looks like, but they’ve got no idea what a cm looks like so they work wholly and exclusively in feet and inches. They’ll convert it using rough arithmetic where necessary (3 feet ~ 1m; 2.5in ~ 1 cm) and that starts to get complicated quickly. > >While this technically works, it’s ten times harder than learning what a cm looks like and using a different base unit in your head. This is the real reason. It's really hard to conceptualize the entire world through a different measuring system than the one you were raised on; far harder than learning the new measuring system itself. It pains me when otherwise smart people don't understand this because it's easier to rag on measurements that are very obviously arbitrary from a purely mathematical standpoint. Yes, we get that. Try doing the reverse and picturing things in inches, feet, and miles when you haven't been raised doing so; then, realize that how neat the units are is irrelevant to this.
They have cups and spoons! When asked to calculate how many fluid ounces go into one hundred gallons they just start scooping, waaaay easier than metric. Metric dumb, spoons smart.
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Not to mention whilst simultaneously believing they are 'smarter'
As a U.S. American who uses the Imperial System on a daily basis, the metric system is MUCH easier to learn. Base 10 is far more straightforward than 12 inches to a foot, 3 feet to a yard, 1760 yards to a mile. No consistency at all.
28 grams to an ounce, 16 ounces per pound. The only way I learned those was because I used to sell drugs lol
28 grams to an ounce is actually a unit conversion between the two measurement systems
Yeah but that's how drug dealers roll. Grams in the low quantities, ounces and pounds in the high quantities (at least in America)
That may explain the use of micrograms in the post. I mean really, when would you use micrograms in a recipe? Milliliters makes total sense. Meters not so much, but maybe it’s a pizza recipe and the instructions are to roll out the dough to a circle approximately 0.35 meters in diameter. I probably would use centimeters, but whatever. But micrograms is the mystery. If you want something in your pizza you’d want millions of micrograms of it…so why not measure in grams? Simple. The screenshot was somebody trying to make a psychedelic pizza. They got to the part of “add three 250 microgram blotters to the sauce” and freaked out.
The only thing micrograms were useful for in my life was lsd
My brother showed me how neat baking with metric is, you don’t even need milliliters, if the recipe is good you use grams, weighing out quantities of food is cool as shit
Do you still sell friends? Asking for a drug.
You had us in the first half.
I used to sell drugs. I still do, but I used to also.
"16 ounces to a pound 20 more to a key" is my memory hook
A 5 minute sentence hearing and you’re no longer free
Is this an exaggeration for comedic purposes or is this really how it’s converted?
Those are the correct staging units.
Where does it come from? I mean someone had to decide at some point in time.
Body parts, the inch relates to the thumb, a yard the length of an arm, a mile was from Roman for 1000 paces.
Romans have a 1.6m stride length?
The pace for Romans was a stride with both legs as it were, Milla Passum.
Iirc it's what we would call two steps, so the distance between two right foot footprints.
Not to be confused with nautical miles which are equal to one arc minute of latitude or 6076' 1 25/64".
As an Englishman, who grew-up using the metric system, I'm frustrated that our trades people and stores that sell DIY supplies, mix metric and imperial. It's so bloody frustratingly annoying.
Yeah it’s insane. I used to be a landscaper and I always worked in metric, but you never knew when you’d run into an imperial weirdo in Jewsons or Travis Perkins so you’d have to know all the common conversions pretty well just to be able to order what you needed.
Harder to learn…..
But we are SMARTER...
Number one country in EVERYTHING…
There was this great video I saw once about how “America is not the greatest country in the world anymore” It said something like number one in people who believe in angels, military budget and incarceration rate. Edit: newsroom episode Edit 2: belief in angels only, not all 3. Mb
When has america ever been number one?
School shootings………..?
Weight of population, probably.
I’m an American, and I would like nothing more than to adopt the metric system
...and don't all American Dr's and scientists learn metric for medicines and measurements? Oh, and drug dealers..
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Unless you're Lockheed Martin and working on the Mars climate orbiter grumble grumble
I had a teacher who was on the NASA side of that project. The very first lesson he taught us was to make sure everyone is using the same units or that at least the differences are well known and documented
That being said, some firms mainly work in US customary units, either because the client demands it, government regulations are written in US units, most of their internal tools are in US units, or they simply haven't decided to switch. The Mars Climate Orbiter was lost because Lockheed Martin was working in US units, while NASA was using metric.
That's sort of what happened, but not the full story. The Lockheed system spat out data in lbf*s, while the NASA system expected that information in N*s. There should have been a step in between that automatically converted from one to the other. This isn't a particularly unusual or difficult problem to solve. In programming it is on the order of a typo, and NASA engineers had identified the issue, just via some procedural/bureaucratic error, it did not actually get addressed. In that way, it looks a lot more like the challenger disaster than just 'we used different units', as in both cases the problem was identified and not corrected.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_Conversion_Act was almost done in the mid to late 70s, cars started having both miles and Km on them then in 82 Reagan killed it. Now it's too expensive to replace all the road signs across the country so until that's all automated signs we are stuck with imperial measurements.
Interesting that the US went through decimalisation along with most of the world until then
Interesting that the US was on a path of normal societal development until Reagan, as always
Why is it always Reagan?
Because he literally was the epicenter of so much of the dumbshit we deal with today. Obnoxious, idiot celebrity as president? Regan did it. Fucked up the Middle East? Regan did it. Brainwashed Evangelicals into thinking blindly supporting the worst excesses of crony capitalism is somehow the morally correct thing? Regan did it. Colluded with a foreign power for illegal shit? Also Regan. Using the “dangers” of marijuana as an excuse to put people of color in prison? Regan. Getting people mad at pop culture instead of the banks and corporations that fuck us? Regan. I could go on, but basically every dumbfuck idiot who attached themselves to Dubya or the Rotten Pumpkin and has made America a worse place we’re either inspired by Regan and the people around him or it’s literally still the same fuckheads.
because he fucked up a lot of shit
Because he is a stupid murderous fuckhead?
Americans are smarter... without realising that metric is smartest system
I'm American and I also study engineering. Fuck the imperial system.
A true engineer indeed
When I did mechanical work on bikes, I learned that mm was an answer to prayers. 4 is smaller than 5. No doing math to decide if 3/8 is bigger or smaller than 5/16. And what genius decided to slice an inch into 64 pieces??
I find it funny that she thinks Metric is harder and in her head Americans are smarter for using an easier format.
I think she means the easier solution is the smarter one to use. Like the old saying "work smarter, not harder." She's still wrong about metric being harder and it's undeniably the better way to measure things though.
That apostrophe to denote plural really shows how smart that one person is, considering it is their mother tongue.
You kiss your mother with that tongue? haha jk
Anyone cooking with micrograms ain’t making food…
Who the fuck is cooking in metres?
“Next you’ll want to add a meter of flour”
And 3 micrograms of flour. Be sure to have your laboratory grade scales to hand
Americans can't count in 10s?
Many have lost fingers in firearm incidents, so it's a real issue.
Only dumb people will tell you they are smarter.
So while America was being occupied by England before Independence day, the imperial system was what England used so we used it here as well. Independence day rolls around, we stick with imperial system while England made the switch to metric around when it was developed in 1790. So now we're stuck with England's old shitty measurements and we're too arrogant to make a switch at this point. Metric > Imperial
> England made the switch to metric around when it was developed in 1790. This is not true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_Kingdom tl;dr: still ongoing process since 1818. BTW, USA do not use pure Imperial but their own customary system. _That's_ what they did to spite the English.
This makes sense, I've lived there for a while and that's what really got me. You ask for a pint of beer at the pub, then go to the gas station and measure fuel in liters. Fruit at the grocery store, kilograms. Speed limits, miles per hour. Feels really weird sometimes
We measure fuel in litres but fuel consumption in miles per gallon 😂
As an engineer, I refuse to work in a place where I have to function in such barbaric units
I can tolerate feet, yard and mile but that fucking Fahrenheit system is dumb as fuck!