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We should adopt crores and lakhs to refer to 10 millions and 100,000, imho.
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Passive Aggreeable posted:I am not a water I am a human being and 0 is cold and 100 is hot, not like 0 is a thing for me atomically and 100 is the next thing too, so keep it hunderd imo and use the human based system. a very easier way to say it is: 32 very cold, 70 nice, 100, probably gonna die
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Aug 25, 2023 23:40
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i think we should change temperature to a color based system
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:i live in a special kind of hell where much of the local tooling and engineering design thought is in metric, but due to our proximity to US steel and aluminum mills, practically all of our raw material stock is in US units, and also we have a ton of US customers. so metric and US customary are basically interchangeable to me and i need fluency in both working in factories full of German tools has been one of the most infuriating things I've ever done, twice in a row. It's easy to know WHICH bolts are going to be what measurement, but getting tools, specially in a motherfucking aseptic cleanroom, is a problem, especially when people don't give a poo poo. i hate the imperial system, always have, and have functioned entirely in metric for over a decade and wish everyone would. also all German and Italian industrial computer software is complete loving trash.
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Aug 25, 2023 23:44
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ill take a liter of cola
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numberoneposter posted:i think we should change temperature to a color based system 
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numberoneposter posted:ill take a liter of cola Do we sell liter cola?
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:Do we sell liter cola? Yes, soda comes in 1 2 and 3 liters in america. That alone should be enough for most americans to visualize metric.
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Aug 26, 2023 00:03
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Grey Cat posted:Yes, soda comes in 1 2 and 3 liters in america. That alone should be enough for most americans to visualize metric. Grey Cat, Thought you were cool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8LtffE5mU8
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:Grey Cat, Thought you were cool This slid over my head, I'm ashamed.
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Aug 26, 2023 00:09
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Grey Cat posted:This slid over my head, I'm ashamed. Have you seen the movie? Its pretty fun?
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:Have you seen the movie? Its pretty fun? SHES NOT MY COUSIN
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:Have you seen the movie? Its pretty fun? It's unironically on my required viewing list, it's my next movie in line.
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Aug 26, 2023 00:18
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slammin salmon has its moments too
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Aug 26, 2023 00:18
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numberoneposter posted:slammin salmon has its moments too I thought Club Dread was pretty funny one time right before he died my brother and I saw michael clarke duncan eating at a restaurant here while they were filming slammin salmon and he gave us a look like "yeah? that's where it ends" and then we all ate in peace
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Aug 26, 2023 00:20
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MrQwerty posted:SHES NOT MY COUSIN dude, all my cousins are ridiculously hot, and I got this face and hairline.
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:dude, all my cousins are ridiculously hot, and I got this face and hairline. hmm. wasn't expecting this in the Genuine Defense of the Imperial System Megathread
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:hmm. wasn't expecting this in the Genuine Defense of the Imperial System Megathread all my cousins are way out of my league
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:hmm. wasn't expecting this in the Genuine Defense of the Imperial System Megathread They all are least 9 years younger than me, and living a good life
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cool man. any otuer details about your sexy cousins you wanna share?
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:cool man. any otuer details about your sexy cousins you wanna share? nope.
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Incest is another customary system well-known to parts of the US
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Lol  
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The meter is officially defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299792458 of a second. And seconds, naturally, are the duration of 9192631770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom. Hm, yes, nice round numbers all. Makes perfect sense.
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Mirage posted:The meter is officially defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299792458 of a second. And seconds, naturally, are the duration of 9192631770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom. thanks for checking in, buddy
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Mirage posted:The meter is officially defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299792458 of a second. And seconds, naturally, are the duration of 9192631770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom. I can eyeball you what a mm or cm is with finer precision than an inch
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Mirage posted:The meter is officially defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299792458 of a second. And seconds, naturally, are the duration of 9192631770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom. "Other units of time, like the minute, hour, and day, are accepted for use with the modern metric system, but are not part of it" https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_time Elegant of a system until you have to accept the dissonance of including multiple units to make things work
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MrQwerty posted:I can eyeball you what a mm or cm is with finer precision than an inch *Stamps your eyeball ISO 5725-1 certified*
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Aug 26, 2023 01:51
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customery has the possibility to be way smarter
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Mirage posted:The meter is officially defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299792458 of a second. cowards refused to make it a nice round number
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Mirage posted:The meter is officially defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299792458 of a second. And seconds, naturally, are the duration of 9192631770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom. all this time, the whole drat thing was designed by assholes
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When you drive into Canada there's a big sign that basically goes "speed limits in Canada are in km/h. 100 km/h is about 65 mph, the speed limit is not 100 mph you cheeseburger people."
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Earwicker posted:all this time, the whole drat thing was designed by assholes math it a horrible mistress
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Everything the US uses is dumb except for Fahrenheit. Celsius is great for measuring the properties of water but not good at being a good numerical representation of what air feels like outside.
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:Everything the US uses is dumb except for Fahrenheit. Celsius is great for measuring the properties of water but not good at being a good numerical representation of what air feels like outside. Que?
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Sorry but Metric and Imperial are both stupid. I propose a base 1337 system.
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The range of what most would consider ideal temperatures is only like 12 digits in Celsius. You can mentally envision the difference of what 60, 70, 80, 90 etc. degrees F feels like, but what about 22 vs. 27 degrees C?
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It's true. I've lived my whole life under draconian celsius measurements and each day I look at the temperature on the weather forecast and have no idea what to expect. It's crazy and I don't know how we've managed to live like this for so long.
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Pekinduck posted:When you drive into Canada there's a big sign that basically goes "speed limits in Canada are in km/h. 100 km/h is about 65 mph, the speed limit is not 100 mph you cheeseburger people." wait, do you not have cheeseburgers in canada? thats really sad. im sorry. you should come down here and try one sometime, you're really missing out. they're very good.
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"The thing I grew up with makes more sense, actually." Next up we can have partially colourblind people who can tell us that we never needed green, and lactose intolerant people who can insist that they aren't missing out on anything really. Maybe cap it off with someone doing horrible repairs while repeating "this is how we've *always* done it." Measurement system arguments are just console fanboying for people who are too awful at games to own a console.
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