airportline@lemmy.ml to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 1 年前metric rulelemmy.mlimagemessage-square60fedilinkarrow-up1528arrow-down10
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minus-squareairportline@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·1 年前What have we done to deserve this?
minus-squareTurun@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up29·1 年前Nothing, you don’t need to do anything particularly good to deserve the metric system. It is given free of charge to all people!
minus-squareairportline@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·edit-21 年前But I love having to add fractions with different denominators and getting it wrong!
minus-squarejoneskind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 年前 It is given free of charge to all people! As a French dude knowing about another small petty French dude named Napoleon, I wouldn’t say it was always given free of charge.
minus-squarecaptainlezbian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 年前Kept breaking things by using us customary for the most part
minus-squarebrown567@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 年前I’m just wondering what we did to deserve the inch becoming 25.4mm instead of just 25 XD
minus-squareUriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 年前5cm ≈ 2 inches up to about a foot.
minus-squarePipedLinkBot@feddit.rocksBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 年前Here is an alternative Piped link(s): We already are on the metric system. Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube. I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
We already are on the metric system.
What have we done to deserve this?
Nothing, you don’t need to do anything particularly good to deserve the metric system. It is given free of charge to all people!
But I love having to add fractions with different denominators and getting it wrong!
That’s okay, youl still have time for that.
As a French dude knowing about another small petty French dude named Napoleon, I wouldn’t say it was always given free of charge.
Metric system (cavalry charge included)
Kept breaking things by using us customary for the most part
I’m just wondering what we did to deserve the inch becoming 25.4mm instead of just 25 XD
5cm ≈ 2 inches up to about a foot.
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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
We already are on the metric system.
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.