Since we here in the USA don’t know the #metric system, we need to learn more units for this weekend
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My wife (who has the same name as you) got one first for knitting. She got a few on her fingers marking 1 and 2 inches so she can easily see when something is long enough.
As an aside: I didn't realize that MIT has an official mastodon instance, that's pretty cool
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Since we here in the USA don’t know the #metric system, we need to learn more units for this weekend
@dianea This is so quintessentially USian.
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That's so lovely - and yeah, this instance is maintained by our student computing club, SIPB -
So we are expecting about $2 of snow?
be assured we are going to be taxed on every dollar of snow!
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Since we here in the USA don’t know the #metric system, we need to learn more units for this weekend
@dianea You lose quarters, dollars, your debit card, and ruin batteries measuring snow like this, but bonus: you get frozen Snickers and Coke slushies!!
"Hey, honey, would you grab a pack of soda and go out to measure the snow depth on the driveway? Thanks."
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Since we here in the USA don’t know the #metric system, we need to learn more units for this weekend
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@dianea I can understand most of them, but a Snicker's and whether the ends are pulled out or not? That doesn't seem like a consistent size since you could confuse the various sizes it's sold in. If you're going to do something that most people are going to have a fairly consistent point of reference to, just say the height of a normal coffee mug for 4"
@dianea Plus there's like a whole generation or two of people who have no idea what a 9v battery is
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@dianea Plus there's like a whole generation or two of people who have no idea what a 9v battery is
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Since we here in the USA don’t know the #metric system, we need to learn more units for this weekend
@dianea those are definitely not hot dogs or footballs
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@dianea Plus there's like a whole generation or two of people who have no idea what a 9v battery is
It's like most people never heard of a "transistor battery" and would it work in flashlights
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It's like most people never heard of a "transistor battery" and would it work in flashlights
@dianea width of a USBC plug is about 1/3". Just measure in USBC plugs
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Since we here in the USA don’t know the #metric system, we need to learn more units for this weekend
@dianea America refused to go to the metric system. I believe there was a push for it in the 70s, most of the world was already on it. So now in order to work on things, I have to have two sets of wrenches one in inches, one in millimeters.
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Since we here in the USA don’t know the #metric system, we need to learn more units for this weekend
@dianea Have you ever had snow one penguin deep?
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Credit cards are 3.375 inches wide by 2.125 inches high.
What are they even doing there? You'd be better off with the height of a credit card for 2" and find something else for 3"
@JessTheUnstill I find quite ironic USians measure stuff in inches and the fractions in thousands.
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@InsiderTreat @cR0w @dianea @cR0w
Hey baby wanna see my nine?Nine Volt!
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@InsiderTreat @cR0w @dianea @cR0w
Hey baby wanna see my nine?Nine Volt!
@FritzAdalis @InsiderTreat @dianea You know you want to put your tongue on it...
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@FritzAdalis @InsiderTreat @dianea You know you want to put your tongue on it...
@cR0w @FritzAdalis @dianea The experience may shock you!
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@FritzAdalis @InsiderTreat @dianea You know you want to put your tongue on it...
@cR0w @InsiderTreat @dianea
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Since we here in the USA don’t know the #metric system, we need to learn more units for this weekend
@dianea very useful and helpful for a lot of different things so thank you omg oh wow oh wow
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Since we here in the USA don’t know the #metric system, we need to learn more units for this weekend
@dianea The way they're scaled in the image doesn't even look good, they're not increasing in height steadily, the quarter is too big, and yeah, it's not even well-executed
️ I use my fingers, hand, and arm, as you said, it's more than good enough
