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[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago

ahh, yes. The gram. The bitcoin of weight units.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

You have yourself tagged as a bot (little bot icon next to your name)

I think you can change that in your profile settings.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Hmm, I had no idea. Think I fixed it now. Thank you so much for taking the time to point that out to me, it really made me happy :D <3

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Maybe it is a bot?

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

Americans use metric only to measure drugs and 9mm gun calibers...

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

We only measure some calibers in metric. Some we measure in decimals of an inch: .380, .357, .223, .308, .50 BMG.

And the really fun ones have both the caliber and powder charge as one name: 45-70, 30-30, etc.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

And because fuck you shotguns use gauge. A unit so mindbogglingly archaic it gives me an anurism. And then the British starts with fucking weight for their pieces....

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

And engines, and alcohol (could be considered drugs though). But if someone asks what size engine a vehicle has 4.0L, as far back as I remember. Like that's my 94' Jeep Cherokee, 4.6L was my 99' Mustang. 600cc was my 2005 Yamaha. Not sure why the don't call those ml instead of cubic centimeters though lol.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Although Americans used to use cubic inches for engines...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Huh, never heard that before. Any examples? Like Chrysler, Ford, GM, used liters. Must be before my time.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

America used cubic inches for most of the 20th century. The chevy big block engine line was pretty popular, check out the different sizes it was made in: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_big-block_engine

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Ah, late 70s is what I'm finding is when they converted to metric. Guessing that happened right after Ford announced the Metric Conversion Act at the end of 75' https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_Conversion_Act

Favorite part about that: "The Metric Board was abolished in 1982 by President Ronald Reagan"

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Favorite part about that: "The Metric Board was abolished in 1982 by President Ronald Reagan"

That's my least favorite part. I hate that the US still uses and teaches its archaic and just plain stupid customary units.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah I was being sarcastic about that lol

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They make metric sound awesome.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Now that's not fair.

We also measure our largest bottles of diabetes-causing high fructose corn syrup and water we call soda in liters.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

does the rest of the world have the ability to recognize a (poorly executed) attempt at humor? One that in fact attempts to satirize the very imperial disregard for SI measurements that Americans are known for?

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

USAians are so funny on that xitter platform. Joking about deporting people, drowning the trans, and casually slipping in a joke about the inferior metric system. Just simply hilarious and so easy to tell apart. There's absolutely no reason anyone named Poe would come up with a law. Unthinkable.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Noooo I read on the internet that Americans are a monolith and they all hate metric. Therefore this can't be a joke!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Man i wish weed was traded by the kilogram

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Funny, up here we buy grams, but when we wanted a real amount of pot we would buy in pounds. Nothing like a big black garbage bag of weed

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

In Australia it's sold by grams, then fractions of ounce/pounds.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

we are a weird bunch, aren't we

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

What is water?

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