• @BonesOfTheMoon
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    291 year ago

    It’s so nice the US and Liberia are the only two countries to share both Ebola AND the imperial system. They’re buddy buddy.

    • lazyslacker
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      41 year ago

      Myanmar uses imperial as well. At least partially. Or they did when I visited there a few years ago.

      • @BonesOfTheMoon
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        41 year ago

        Oh I thought they converted. Or were converting. I don’t think they had Ebola though.

        • @Viking_Hippie
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          51 year ago

          Must have, otherwise they wouldn’t use imperial. That’s what it’s for.

    • Fonzie!
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      21 year ago

      TBF in practice a lot of countries use the imperial system, from Canada to the UK to Jamaica to the Philippines. They just “use metric” on paper.

      Also, here in the Netherlands we use inches for screen sizes and cups for some cooking recipes. I will insist that my monitor is 55cm and even tech people ask me how much that is with full sincerity.

      • @BonesOfTheMoon
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        11 year ago

        Yes like I certainly measure flour in cups in Canada lol.

        • Fonzie!
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          21 year ago

          I noticed some Canadians seem to use metric exclusively, while others very much use imperial systems through and through. Android defaults to imperial systems when it’s set to Canadian English, which confuses me even more but I suppose imperial must be used a lot, then

          • Catweazle
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            21 year ago

            @lord_ryvan @BonesOfTheMoon, I don’t understand how it can be in the 21st century that a system as idiotic and archaic as the imperial one continues to be used. NASA has already caused millions of dollars in damage by crashing several probes due to miscalculations with these outdated and devoid of any logic measurements, based on parts of the body of a king, dead centuries ago instead of clear physical and mathematical units as in the rest of the world.

          • @BonesOfTheMoon
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            11 year ago

            I find stuff like cups and spoons and pounds and inches are used here more than metric, but we definitely use kilometers only.

            • Fonzie!
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              21 year ago

              Android lied to me

              Maybe it’s a plot by the Australian government because it led me to set all my devices to Australian English; they’re always 100% metric

    • @Jtn670
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      21 year ago

      At least Raiden should’ve had no issues then