• jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          1 year ago

          This just made me think, why haven’t those damn commie Europeans with their fancy metric system come up with a better system for measuring time yet?

          People like to talk a lot of shit about how subjective the definitions for an inch or a mile are, but I never hear complaints about how a second or an hour are antiquated and based on things that only make sense from an Earth-centric point of view.

          I just feel like someone be mad at Americans for still using hours (ugh, trivially decided on the amount of time it takes the Earth to rotate) and not something like the amount of time it takes for 1 kilogram of water to decay via natural radiation when under a vacuum.

          By the way, before downvoting, this post is heavy with /s in case it wasn’t obvious.

          Edit: I just looked up the formal definition of a second and it is “the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom”.

          • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz
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            1 year ago

            It’s all so arbitrary is funny. People get so passionate, but then I’ll bring up,“Why aren’t we using Swatch Time?” Or, why don’t we have 13 months of exactly 28 days (With a bonus vacation day or two)?

            They’ll usually fall back on what people are used to or tradition or something that just supports staying on imperial measurements. To be clear, I don’t give a shit what measurement system is used. It’s not like it takes a big brain to figure out what is going on when you travel.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    God, I wish we used this here. It is such a better system than our system of potholes being measured in washing machines in some parts of the country.

    • BigNote@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      We do use it where necessary; in science, engineering and the military, for example. Some of our imperial units suck, but others, like pounds and feet and inches are superior because they are more intuitive. The reality is that it’s a non-issue for most people and because of that we will almost always have some version of a mixed system, as do most of the other Anglophone countries.