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

    No you see, everyone else in the world exclusively describes the world in accurate SI units, only Americans are dumbfuck enough to measure things in bullets per cheeseburger. Nobody else in the entire world will casually say “it’s the size of a medium dog” because America bad.

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      4 hours ago

      after immigrating here, I’ve lived in America for 12 years and I still cannot get used to the whole thing with ounces, pints, gallons, and all the other weird af measurement units we use, like for my manufacturing job, instead of using cm, mm, or um, we have to juggle between using decimal numbers or fractions of an inch