• CADmonkey@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    I honestly wish we used metric in the US.

    What always cracks me up, are people not from the US who whine about our units, and demand that they be translated into their comfort units, which doesn’t make them look smart, it makes them look like they can’t do math as well as a teenager in the US.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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      4 hours ago

      I use metric all the time in the US. My 3D printer runs in millimeters and Celsius, I buy Pepsi by the liter, I dose every medicine by the gram, I meter electricity by the kilowatt and my lights are rated in lumens.

      What I don’t do is this weird sense of superiority found in cultivated ignorance the Europeans seem so fond of on the subject.

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        4 hours ago

        Yup that’s my issue. We used metric all the time in the US. But you don’t ever see us bitching about units in an internet comment.