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puts hair on ya chest (mander.xyz)
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[–] 24 points 2 years ago (15 children)

Wait a sec, I was told American's don't use the metric system...

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    The imperial system doesn't have any electromagnetism units that I'm aware of, so they borrow from SI.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    We can use horsepower hours if you’d like. Or BTU

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    I'm all for paying my electric bill in horsepower/hours. That feels very American. How many V8s is my house?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I'd be horsepower * hour, since horsepower is a unit, of, well, power, and [Energy] = [Power]*[Time]

    But might as well go for an obscure time unit as well at that point. Horsepower Sennights, baby

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Hmm but couldn't we then also go even further and assume an idealized muscle car with an effective transmission to its wheels of 1:1 running at its optimal torque vs speed point and thus with a given speed of its wheels rotation for a given time?

    Aka convert energy into miles (traveled) or something (with the choice of motor and wheel diameter and everything else standardized ofc.)?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    We also don't use apostrophes for plural words.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Speak for yourselv’es

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    The apostrophe abbreviates the es (to 's) that used to be part of the English possessive (as it still is on some words that end s)

    It's a bit shit. Lots of people have trouble with it, lots of English as a second language people have trouble with not understanding what is replaced by the apostrophe

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