• @[email protected]
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    True but there are also many different types of meters: kilometers, centimeters, millimeters, thermometers, barometers, … face it: the metric system isn’t better

    • Sentrovasi
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      3611 months ago

      It sounds like you’re being sarcastic but you’re getting all these serious replies.

    • @pacology
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      You are right. But the metric system is intuitive. 12 millimeters = 1 centimeter, 3 centimeter = 1 meter, 100 meter is a football pitch, and 1760 meters are a kilometer (I had to google this one because I never know. The designers really missed out at using 1776 meters in a kilometer).

      /s

      • @Maslo
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        Noone remembers how many yards are in a mile, you’re supposed to just remember it’s 5 tomatos long.

      • @NightAuthor
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        Talk shit about imperial all you want, just remember that the British made it. US was just too busy building a damn country to change units when the new one was adopted by the British and their imperial states.

          • @NightAuthor
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            lol, why people downvote me but upvote you.

            • @dai
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              Idk, internet things.

    • @adj16
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      2011 months ago

      This is a good and funny comment. Sorry the people voting are too thick to get it

      • I Cast Fist
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        With how some 'muricans are, that’s a clear cut case of Poe’s Law

    • @owsei
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      kilo is a common prefix meaning *1000

      milli is /1000

      and you can use them for several units

      it’s not like we use “irish” to mean *1.27

        • @[email protected]
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          When I make an Irish coffee, that’s definetly not what makes it Irish. Though by coincidence it does end up 1.27 times the size of a regular one, on account of the additives.

        • @Tanoh
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          No, “irish coffee” is coffee with alcohol in it. At least where I am from.

        • @owsei
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          it may be

          but the usability is about being common

          if everyone (or almost everyone) used it, it would be useful

          tho, I still like metric better because it matches our base

          but if ppl around you use irish to mean *1.27, go for it

    • Troy
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      611 months ago

      No. A metre is always a metre. The prefixes are standardizex.

      • @[email protected]
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        611 months ago

        Still: the difference between a kilometer and a centimeter is much bigger than the difference between a nautical mile and an Irish mile. And not even all meters are standardized. Thermometers and barometers vary hugely in size

        • Troy
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          311 months ago

          Ah, you must live in the US. Because in the rest of the English speaking world, a metre is a unit of length, and a meter is a measuring device. Note the difference in spelling. ;)

          Not that it makes a tonne of difference.

      • @[email protected]
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        110 months ago

        I see your point but my ratio is much better than it was before. I guess some people are able to read my comments 2 level lower (like this one)