• CADmonkey@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Use your superior education that you got in your non-US country and do the math. Yeah the units are stupid and Americans are uneducated. But we can at least do the conversions.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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      38 minutes ago

      I’ve gone on this tirade plenty of times, but inches aren’t stupid. 12 inches to a foot makes a lot of sense for problems we’ve had to solve for millennia, because it’s 3 times a power of two. For things like woodoworking it actually makes more sense than the metric system.

      “But 10 deciliters in a liter” Using a tape measure, mark out 1/3rd of the thickness of a standard 19mm sheet of plywood. I’ll be over here doing the same with 3/4" plywood by marking at 1/4".

      Maybe we shouldn’t be selling Europe any weapons that work.

    • FelixCress@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      But we can at least do the conversions.

      And he usually doesn’t need to, since the civilised word is using metric system.