• @yesman
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    571 month ago

    Americans will use anything but the Metric System

    • Flying SquidOPM
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      81 month ago

      I’m just saying if she really wants to impress me, she knows what she has to do.

      • swab148
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        141 month ago

        She could clear all of the books if you download them as PDFs and put them on a thumb drive

    • @[email protected]
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      1 month ago

      3.658 meters isn’t inherently any more comprehensible than 12 feet. I think “about 2 fairly tall dudes high” is better than 60 something books either way.

      • @beerclue
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        81 month ago

        No one will say 3.658m. We would say about 3.5m or 3 and a half meters. I’m pretty sure those 12’ are not exact either. You wouldn’t say 11 feet, 5 and 1/32 inches, right?

        • @[email protected]
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          21 month ago

          Okay, 3.5 meters is not any more inherently comprehensible than 12 feet.

          I’m not denying the superiority of metric, I wish the US would just switch over already. However, unless you already know how long a meter or foot is in reality, you won’t have a good idea how high she can jump. Relating it to something makes it a lot easier to understand. Jumping 35 books is a terrible analogy, but jumping over 2 tall men would work pretty well.

          • @[email protected]
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            41 month ago

            Having the units in imperial and metric is much more comprehensible for most people compared to imperial and a large number of books of which I don’t even know how thick they are

          • @sheogorath
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            21 month ago

            Well, if you’re already familiar with the metric system, you can probably guess how long a meter is. It’s like when you’re used to the imperial system and you can guess how long a foot is or something like that.

    • Flying SquidOPM
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      51 month ago

      A surprising number, but then I’m told that James Patterson is actually the pen name of Michael Jordan.

  • @ivanafterall
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    61 month ago

    Face it, haters: for all her accomplishments, Simone Biles is still no James Patterson.

    • Flying SquidOPM
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      41 month ago

      Has Simone Biles even written one single novel that got turned into a TV series?

  • @Nikls94
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    31 month ago

    If you add another ‘ it’s twice the size of my dingdong