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AceFuzzLord ,

God, I wish we used this here. It is such a better system than our system of potholes being measured in washing machines in some parts of the country.

ezmack ,

What you’re too fancy to divide by 25.4 or multiply by .0397?

wander1236 ,
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen thousands separators in decimals

ox0r ,
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nooooo my teaspoon measurements!

ryathal ,

It’s just prefixes, you can use decateaspoons if you want.

Frederic ,

It’s deca, not deka

StimulatedYorkie ,

I’m an American and I approve this message.

steal_your_face ,
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Go to sleep!

hglman ,

I just awoke from 21ks of sleep.

jballs ,
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This just made me think, why haven’t those damn commie Europeans with their fancy metric system come up with a better system for measuring time yet?

People like to talk a lot of shit about how subjective the definitions for an inch or a mile are, but I never hear complaints about how a second or an hour are antiquated and based on things that only make sense from an Earth-centric point of view.

I just feel like someone be mad at Americans for still using hours (ugh, trivially decided on the amount of time it takes the Earth to rotate) and not something like the amount of time it takes for 1 kilogram of water to decay via natural radiation when under a vacuum.

By the way, before downvoting, this post is heavy with /s in case it wasn’t obvious.

Edit: I just looked up the formal definition of a second and it is “the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom”.

sin_free_for_00_days ,

It’s all so arbitrary is funny. People get so passionate, but then I’ll bring up,“Why aren’t we using Swatch Time?” Or, why don’t we have 13 months of exactly 28 days (With a bonus vacation day or two)?

They’ll usually fall back on what people are used to or tradition or something that just supports staying on imperial measurements. To be clear, I don’t give a shit what measurement system is used. It’s not like it takes a big brain to figure out what is going on when you travel.

HKayn ,
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This can go even further. Why aren’t we using base 12 numbers, which can be divided much more conveniently?

sin_free_for_00_days ,

I remember watching the Numberphile video on base 12 a few years ago. I thought it was pretty interesting.

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herrherrmann ,

The red squiggly underlines make me sad.

LaSaucisseMasquee ,

Screenshooting a Word document is utterly disgusting.

itsAllDigital ,

Absolutely! It should be an OpenDocument Spreadsheet

gutter564 ,

Where are the metric units? All I see is prefixes explained

Mercival ,

My sibling in Satan, that’s the backbone of the metric system. Nobody said anything about units.

dmention7 ,

Gotcha, so we’re talking kilotons and microinches then?

Or is it actually the units that make the metric system scary to Americans?

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