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american'ts still use imperial units so all their tech advice has by definition been outdated since the early 19th century *programs satellites to work on fathoms per slug-fortnight or some poo poo* *is surprised they're bad tech that blows up due to being unable to tell where it's going* suck my woke dick fucked around with this message at 21:47 on May 21, 2017 |
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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a meter is too long to be a useful measure of short distances
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May 21, 2017 21:44
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hifi posted:a meter is too long to be a useful measure of short distances yeah that's why you use cm and dm like a reasonably well-educated fourth grader
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May 21, 2017 21:48
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my friend have you heard of the centimeter? 1/100th of a meter. it's even in the name so you can't mistake it for something else!
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May 21, 2017 21:48
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no then it would be onehundredthmeter
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May 21, 2017 21:52
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do people use dm? they should have made that size the base unit
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May 21, 2017 21:53
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it's more that the foot is an aesthetically pleasing size than anything with fractions of a foot or meter or whatever. hold a ruler in your hand, it's well-sized to measuring things with a stick. anything bigger and you have a tape measure. contrast that to swinging around a meter stick, trying to get it level, etc
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May 21, 2017 21:55
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you can use whatever the gently caress you want in metric because all you have to do is move the decimal when converting. behold: 2.5 meters 25 decimeters 250 centimeters
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May 21, 2017 21:56
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amerixan brains are so dense they need units to not really exist in numbers greater than one so they made a foot of which one of them can roughly approximate a few real things in the world, negating the need to count
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May 21, 2017 21:58
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Suspicious posted:you can use whatever the gently caress you want in metric because all you have to do is move the decimal when converting. behold: the only thing that fucks me off about metric is that for every unit the unit name is the "centre unit" except litres because a litre of water is a KILOgram so a 100% mix of a thing in weight per volume is g/mL or Kg/L rather than g/L or whatever
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May 21, 2017 22:00
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i took chemistry and i only ever wrote things in kg or g
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May 21, 2017 22:04
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echinopsis posted:the only thing that fucks me off about metric is that for every unit the unit name is the "centre unit" except litres because a litre of water is a KILOgram so a 100% mix of a thing in weight per volume is g/mL or Kg/L rather than g/L or whatever i think this is more because 1mg/l = 1 ppm
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May 21, 2017 22:06
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echinopsis posted:amerixan brains are so dense they need units to not really exist in numbers greater than one so they made a foot of which one of them can roughly approximate a few real things in the world, negating the need to count we're not the ones who divided money into random amounts of pence and shillings
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May 21, 2017 22:07
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if the dweebazoids that came up with the meter did any usability testing they might have found out that the ideal length is about a foot and the ideal fraction is 12 because you can cleanly divide it into thirds
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May 21, 2017 22:10
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americans are pragmatic and get poo poo done and the rest of the world is stuck philosophizing and not actually producing anything of merit
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May 21, 2017 22:10
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i propose the rest of the world convert to our measurement system
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May 21, 2017 22:11
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the funny thing is that american doctors and scientists are using metric. it's the plebs that are clinging to imperial like drowning men
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May 21, 2017 22:19
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if you need a scale below ounces and inches then mm and g are fine but they may as well be arbitrary just like feet and pounds are
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May 21, 2017 22:27
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hifi posted:if you need a scale below ounces and inches then mm and g are fine but they may as well be arbitrary just like feet and pounds are yeah but the maths is a million times better so its immensley worthwhile pram posted:we're not the ones who divided money into random amounts of pence and shillings mate my country saw there was a better way and turned to dolalrs. whats yuopure country doing hifi posted:i took chemistry and i only ever wrote things in kg or g people call me a "chemist" but the reality is that I ama glorified tablet monkey
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May 21, 2017 22:44
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a pint is the perfect measure for beer, if you serve me 500 ml i will pour 26.82 ml on the floor all measurements system are dumb poo poo. how far away is that cat? it's 1/299792458 the distance it takes light to travel in the time it takes cesium 133 to transition states 9192631770 times. but you can move the decimal point if it gets closer base 10 is stupid, humans would be colonizing mars already if we evolved with 12 or 16 fingers
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May 22, 2017 02:07
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centimeters and inches are equally justifiable as human-scale units 1 inch = the length of a finger joint 1 cm = the width of a finger feet are dumb and i have to conclude that the only reason for their existence is because the ancient english couldn't count up to triple digits. also fractional units are stupid and bad and decimal inches are great.
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May 22, 2017 02:19
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creationist believer posted:a pint is the perfect measure for beer, if you serve me 500 ml i will pour 26.82 ml on the floor lol
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May 22, 2017 03:12
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echinopsis posted:yeah but the maths is a million times better so its immensley worthwhile mate just wait til you find out about computers
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May 22, 2017 03:47
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creationist believer posted:a pint is the perfect measure for beer i agree creationist believer posted:if you serve me 500 ml i will pour 26.82 ml on the floor but a pint is 568 mL?
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May 22, 2017 06:17
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~Coxy posted:but a pint is 568 mL? mericans can't do maths lol or possibly he's using some weird moon units that are called the same as the other moon units everyone else thinks he's using, you decide
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May 22, 2017 09:47
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noone uses dm, it's either cm or m
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May 22, 2017 10:55
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typical american: well, you see, we use the usc system because all of the units are easy to understand and at human scale, making it possible for even the simplest child or foreigner to easily learn and understand. of course we also invented computers and calculators so we can easily convert to the less usable system preferred by other countries european scientist: duh, duh, our system of measurement is vastly superior to the american one because it is all based on this block of platinum in some building in france and like a glass of ice water that took a hundred days to make in a lab
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May 22, 2017 11:12
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~Coxy posted:i agree i typed "pint in ml" in spotlight and that's what it gave me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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May 22, 2017 12:42
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i was taught that "the pint's a pound the whole world round" but apparently the us can't even get that right "However, a US pint of water weighs 1.04375 pounds and the statement does not hold the world around because the imperial (UK) pint, which was also the standard measure in Australia, India, Malaya, New Zealand, South Africa etc., weighs 1.25 pounds." maybe a pint of water weighed a pound before we started letting so much lead get in the drikning water
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May 22, 2017 12:53
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imperial pints own for beer, I like german liter mugs too but you have to really apply yourself or else it gets warm a bunch of bars around here were using 14oz pint glasses which is just bullshit, they didn't get busted but the abc basically said "either clearly tell people these are 14 or knock it off" so they got rid of them
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May 22, 2017 16:28
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angry_keebler posted:typical american: well, you see, we use the usc system because all of the units are easy to understand and at human scale, making it possible for even the simplest child or foreigner to easily learn and understand. of course we also invented computers and calculators so we can easily convert to the less usable system preferred by other countries
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May 22, 2017 16:30
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measurement chat is real dumb
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May 22, 2017 17:17
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Silver Alicorn posted:measurement chat is real dumb it sucks poo poo
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May 22, 2017 18:27
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it doesn't matter what measurement system you use, your dick is still the same size
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May 22, 2017 18:57
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all countries except America use the correct enter key size, just like metric, temperature etc hth
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May 27, 2017 12:59
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Just use decimal inches
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May 28, 2017 06:25
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imperial measurements are god's own measurements don't loving @ me
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May 28, 2017 06:34
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decimal inches are real good
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May 28, 2017 06:35
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lol just go metric quit living in the past
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May 28, 2017 08:09
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i would actually be fine with the decimal inch as my base unit, there's nothing really special about the meter as a length so a different base unit would have worked just as well but only as long as i can describe lengths as kiloinches and megainches.  weird fact: the scandinavian mile is 10 km and is a very common informal unit of measure to use.
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