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 Plus there's like a whole generation or two of people who have no idea what a 9v battery is
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@JessTheUnstill @dianea wait really?
@KaitlynEthylia @dianea I mean, how many devices actually use 9V batteries anymore? Even most smoke detectors have moved to Lithium Ion batteries.
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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
when do we get to the big rocks the size of small rocks or armadillos?
we do seem to go to pretty much any lengths to avoid metric units...
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@KaitlynEthylia @dianea I mean, how many devices actually use 9V batteries anymore? Even most smoke detectors have moved to Lithium Ion batteries.
@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 -
Since we here in the USA don’t know the #metric system, we need to learn more units for this weekend
@dianea "Snowfall today was two batteries and one credit card."
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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
Them: What is your height?
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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 And you can't use alligators like other times as the people getting snow don't , usually, know how big alligators are.
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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 Hoy many soccer fields is a one dollar note?
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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 why i love the imperial system
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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 is this beofre or after shrinkflation?
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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 shrinkflation is gonna mess your 4" measurement.
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@dianea If you think US measurements are bizarre (and they are), wait until you hear about the confused mess that is British measurements.
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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
SI is so much SImpler ...
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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 balanced diet
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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 omg thank you!! I actually find the imperial system weaker and less easy to understand.
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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 What's bigger than a dollar bill, because that's too small for here
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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 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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Since we here in the USA don’t know the #metric system, we need to learn more units for this weekend
A rule of thumbs
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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 *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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Since we here in the USA don’t know the #metric system, we need to learn more units for this weekend
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
