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Robobot posted:I know I've been half assing sticking up for imperial measurements, but we did that all the time at the bakery I worked at. We used metric for almost everything there simply because it was easier. Same as a former Pastry Chef. But the amount of people who getting so worked up about the superiority of Metric is giving me a laugh. Protip: if it's actually useful in it's application Americans have already switched to metric, if it's totally irrelevant then they have not.
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Robobot posted:But you'll take my miles and inches from day to day life from my cold dead hands! The only flaw of metric is how unweidly it is to say kilometer and centimeter compared to mile and inch. "Clicks" has taken off, but theres no good slang for cm.
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Aug 11, 2021 21:31
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Gaius Marius posted:Same as a former Pastry Chef. But the amount of people who getting so worked up about the superiority of Metric is giving me a laugh. Protip: if it's actually useful in it's application Americans have already switched to metric, if it's totally irrelevant then they have not. Pretty much. I will say, for day-to-day use, I much prefer Farenheit to Celsius
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Aug 11, 2021 21:42
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thetoughestbean posted:I have never once encountered someone who figured out how much water they had by weighing it I do this. It's really useful.
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Aug 11, 2021 21:44
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I suggest we all fully convert to metric. But just call it Imperial. Because that's badass and cool.
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Aug 11, 2021 21:49
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thetoughestbean posted:Pretty much. Fahrenheit is the one thing I will say is much better for telling you what temperature it is outside. I get using C for science stuff, but if I wanna know exactly how hot or cold it's gonna feel outside then having waaaaaaay more numbers to do so is beneficial.
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Aug 11, 2021 21:50
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Robobot posted:Fahrenheit is the one thing I will say is much better for telling you what temperature it is outside. I get using C for science stuff, but if I wanna know exactly how hot or cold it's gonna feel outside then having waaaaaaay more numbers to do so is beneficial. I've never understood this argument. I guarantee that a person cannot tell the difference between 70 and 71°, and if you really need that specific of a value, most C thermometers measure to a decimal point (or at least half a point, which is very close to a Farenheit degree)
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Aug 11, 2021 22:03
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Fashionable Jorts posted:I've never understood this argument. I guarantee that a person cannot tell the difference between 70 and 71°, and if you really need that specific of a value, most C thermometers measure to a decimal point (or at least half a point, which is very close to a Farenheit degree) I can tell if my thermostat is one degree off. Most everyone can, but if you're not used to seeing and feeling the difference then I guess it would be harder.
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Aug 11, 2021 22:12
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Arthur should've remained more popular for kids than Spongebob. (It's retiring this winter)
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Aug 11, 2021 22:18
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Fashionable Jorts posted:The only flaw of metric is how unweidly it is to say kilometer and centimeter compared to mile and inch. "Clicks" has taken off, but theres no good slang for cm. Sent. I hate this dumb measurements argument, not because metric isn't the clear winner, but because how repetitive and dumb it is.
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Aug 11, 2021 23:21
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centimeters are seemies
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Aug 11, 2021 23:25
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ishikabibble posted:i love my pop shelf where i store my 500 2l bottles of mountain dew and nothing else How many yards in 837 miles, do it in your head I know how many metres are in 837 kilometres and I don't have to do any maths, it's 837,000 ("," is the unit separator in the UK). Nope, no practical applications. None for travelling. Absolutely none
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Aug 12, 2021 00:03
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Now explain why you need to know how many yards you're going
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Aug 12, 2021 00:05
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The reasonable measurement is "a days travel" by car.
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Aug 12, 2021 00:08
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Distances don't really matter anyway in almost all practical situations now. All that matters is how long the GPS app tells you it will take to get where you're going. If you're lost in the woods with no connection then maybe it'd matter, but you're not going to sit there thinking "ok, the map scale says it will take 5 kilometers to get to safety...wish I knew how far that was in yards". You'd just go to the closest thing.
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Aug 12, 2021 00:10
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Distances don't really matter anyway in almost all practical situations now. All that matters is how long the GPS app tells you it will take to get where you're going. If you're lost in the woods with no connection then maybe it'd matter, but you're not going to sit there thinking "ok, the map scale says it will take 5 kilometers to get to safety...wish I knew how far that was in yards". You'd just go to the closest thing. Yeah but you have to use old-style maps if you want to mark out and organize your trip around visiting a dozen interesting places, google maps and other mapping things do not support that
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Aug 12, 2021 00:14
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alexandriao posted:Yeah but you have to use old-style maps if you want to mark out and organize your trip around visiting a dozen interesting places, google maps and other mapping things do not support that Uh, they absolutely do? You just add everywhere you want to go as a stop before your final destination and they'll even helpfully let you know what the time is between each individually.
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Aug 12, 2021 00:16
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doverhog posted:The reasonable measurement is "a days travel" by car. This is nonsense, more like time to location by local transport, like trams or metro. If it's more than 1 hour seriously consider whether you actually wanna go there.
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Aug 12, 2021 00:19
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doverhog posted:The reasonable measurement is "a days travel" by car. doverhog posted:This is nonsense, more like time to location by local transport, like trams or metro. If it's more than 1 hour seriously consider whether you actually wanna go there. I've never seen cognitive dissonance in real time before! What an exciting day!
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Aug 12, 2021 00:21
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Zore posted:Uh, they absolutely do? You just add everywhere you want to go as a stop before your final destination and they'll even helpfully let you know what the time is between each individually. Right, but at no point can you say "Ok I want to go from A to B, show me all the interesting things between here and there so I can chart out a route"
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Aug 12, 2021 00:22
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doverhog posted:This is nonsense, more like time to location by local transport, like trams or metro. If it's more than 1 hour seriously consider whether you actually wanna go there. It took me an hour to get to work on trams and buses when I was in Switzerland. I wish I could have taken your advice because I would have much rather not gone there.
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Aug 12, 2021 00:23
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Robobot posted:I've never seen cognitive dissonance in real time before! What an exciting day! Think of it as fast forward.
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Aug 12, 2021 00:24
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alexandriao posted:Right, but at no point can you say "Ok I want to go from A to B, show me all the interesting things between here and there so I can chart out a route" You can search for attractions along your route in Google Maps.
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Aug 12, 2021 00:24
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yeah I eat rear end posted:It took me an hour to get to work on trams and buses when I was in Switzerland. I wish I could have taken your advice because I would have much rather not gone there. It's been a while but I remember you liked Switzerland for some parts at least. Never been there myself.
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Aug 12, 2021 00:26
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doverhog posted:It's been a while but I remember you liked Switzerland for some parts at least. Never been there myself. Yeah everything was great, except for the work part. It was such a pain to get there - 2 trams, a bus, then a minibus/van thing. Didn't help that work was on top of a small mountain with only one hourly public transport option.
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Aug 12, 2021 00:31
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silence_kit posted:You can search for attractions along your route in Google Maps. This requires a preselected route, which defeats the point of selecting the route for the attractions
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Aug 12, 2021 00:33
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That sounds like a major chore, yeah.
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Aug 12, 2021 00:34
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They’re both arbitrary systems of measurement and you’re all weird nerds for caring, especially the poster whose job it is to build 2L Mountain Dew shelves and the poster who doesn’t know how to use google maps.
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Aug 12, 2021 06:14
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Fashionable Jorts posted:The only flaw of metric is how unweidly it is to say kilometer and centimeter compared to mile and inch. "Clicks" has taken off, but theres no good slang for cm.  How far's that? 20 kays.
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Aug 12, 2021 07:37
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Everyone knows that Fahrenheit is objectively worse because I personally don't know what temperature any of the numbers signify.
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Aug 12, 2021 11:36
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There is no "objective" worse or better, it's just a bunch of inputs that may all be spoofed.
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Aug 12, 2021 11:48
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I would say this has gone on long enough but I'm not sure how you measure internet slap fight lengths in any measurement system
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Aug 12, 2021 13:42
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Badactura posted:I would say this has gone on long enough but I'm not sure how you measure internet slap fight lengths in any measurement system You’d use a spectrograph.
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Aug 12, 2021 15:33
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Fashionable Jorts posted:but theres no good slang for cm.
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Aug 12, 2021 16:23
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Tiggum posted:Who says "clicks"? The abbreviation for kilometre is "kay", eg. Maybe its a regional thing. I've definitely heard far more people say clicks than k.
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Aug 12, 2021 16:38
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Everyone who is defending even a part of what is known by Americans as the "imperial" system, and by human beings as the "stupid American system" is a Fishmech re-reg.
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Aug 12, 2021 17:02
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Metric is pretty much better, but also forever lol at the people complaining that imperial is arbitrary when metric's base measurement is The Holy Stick In France. Oh wait it was originally "one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole along a great circle", that fundamental and immutably important measurement that all the world instantly recognizes.
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Aug 12, 2021 17:33
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Byzantine posted:Metric is pretty much better, but also forever lol at the people complaining that imperial is arbitrary when metric's base measurement is The Holy Stick In France. yeah but that's no longer the case, all of metric is standardized to universal principles
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Aug 12, 2021 17:38
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M.O.T. a pseudoargument based entirely on a Wikipedia'd fact that is true but also completely irrelevant is the literal definition of fishmeching.
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I use the completely superior system of "a bit", "a bit more than a bit", "a bunch", and "it's too drat hot".
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