Since we here in the USA don’t know the #metric system, we need to learn more units for this weekend

@JessTheUnstill @dianea I actually didn't know that smoke alarms don't anymore. but I guess yeah I haven't seen them as a while. But idk I don't quite think they're so rare that an entire generation have forgotten about them (I say as a member of gen z on the younger side). though I guess I forget being involved with tech, and just being interested in that sort of stuff, I tend to know more old fashioned tech and such than most people my age

@dianea "Snowfall today was two batteries and one credit card."

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Them: What is your height?
Me: About $12.

#metricSystem

@dianea And you can't use alligators like other times as the people getting snow don't , usually, know how big alligators are.

@dianea Hoy many soccer fields is a one dollar note?

@dianea this is why i love the imperial system

@dianea is this beofre or after shrinkflation?

@dianea shrinkflation is gonna mess your 4" measurement.

@hedders @dianea I mean if you’re of a certain age *cough* and from the UK, you have to live with a bastardised combination of imperial and metric.

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SI is so much SImpler ...

@dianea balanced diet

@dianea omg thank you!! I actually find the imperial system weaker and less easy to understand.

@dianea What's bigger than a dollar bill, because that's too small for here

@dianea Is it really that weird to think of common objects as a mental reference for measurement, regardless of what units you're working in?

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A rule of thumbs

@dianea *squints* if now the 2" image was twice as tall as the 1" image ... people could, like, take multiples of one reference point ... just, like ... the whole number thing

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useful because this is:

the average american diet
the average american total bank savings
the thing they forget to change in that thing on the hallway ceiling in every american home that's always beeping. what is it?
the thing americans use to pay for everything then they need to declare bankruptcy because of it

I think the US should develop a new length unit.

This new length unit should be based on the length of the standard issue gun used in US military (M16A4).

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Americans still use dollar bills ?

@dianea I remember reading a thread in old Twitter days. It was from a Polish translator who does american movies. He said this is the worst, when they describe everytyhing in football pitches, or say "it's a size of a M16 gun", as nobody in civilised countries know what size a gun like that is or how long is the pitch for american hand-egg-brawl-game, and then you might often lose context or something because of it.