• SpacePanda@mander.xyz
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      907.184 grams of copper, happy now? Lol not quite a kilo going from metric to imperial sounds about on par for USA and I think england does that too

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        The US usually consistently uses imperial, which sucks but it’s consistent. England switches between the two constantly. They’re crazy people, and they use measures like “stone” for weight sometimes too. Metric is obviously the better system, but consistency is better than randomly deciding which to use when.

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          Consistently. Like the 500mL bottle of water I’m currently drinking in coastal Alabama?

          Like the 2 and 3L sodas sold in stores all across the USA as far back as I can remember? I’m about a month and a half away from 50 years old btw.

          Or maybe like how all our drugs medicines, over the counter, and yes, even the illegal ones, are all in milligrams or grams?

          Or our military using kilometers to measure distance across land, although calling it a klick because it’s faster to say than kilometer?

          Or how most of our weapons are measured in millimeters?

          That sort of consistency?

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          Our smallest unit of weight is the ounce, which is 28g, and as much as Americans hate metric, we hate fractions more.

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      It’s funny that Europeans complain about Americans being dumb but also can’t comprehend converting units of measurement.

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        We could, but why should we? I can easily switch between grams, kilograms and tonnes. Hell I can tell you that 1 litre of water weighs 1 kilogram. I am not going to deal with gallons per square inch of pounds