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Comic strip of a ghost and a person with the American flag pasted on the head. The ghost repeats "Boo!" in the first three panels without getting any reaction, but when it in the fourth panel says "kg, cm, km, Β°C" the American gets scared and screams "AHHHH!!!".
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Aaaand ... DD/MM/YYYY π«
As much as I vehemently dislike US customary units, MM/DD/YYYY is the USA's greatest notation crime.
This one wouldn't make sense as they say dates as month day, year.
To me, dates should always be written in international format: YYYY-MM-DD
$ 50
Do you call this fifty dollars, or dollar fifty?
Lots of stuff is written differently, than it is spoken. In case of the date it is weird, not to go from biggest to smallest or vice versa. I guess you are used to it now, but for me it would be the same as putting seconds before minutes or inches before feet.
Depends on context, IMO did/mm/yyyy is the most natural when writing some text, but partial ISO yyyy-mm-dd is ideal for when naming files and directories, makes lexicographical ordering follow chronological order.
Big-endian vs little-endian all over again
I personally prefer dd-mm-yyyy because cutting stuff of the end to get dd-mm or dd is better imho. Just an opinion tho, use what you like.
Tax-funded health care. Making sure crazy people can't buy machine guns. Voting for reasonable candidates.
You forgot that only a good guy with a gun-safe filled with AR-15s can stop a bad guy with a glock
The only properly measured thing Americans bring to their schools is 9mm's π
Categorically false. They also bring 5.56x40mm.
Not in California though. You can own it, but you can't buy nor shoot 5.56 or .223 on BLM or CA owned land. They're also in the courts (appeals) to ban Assault rifles in the state.
As an American, I can confidently say I'm sick of this Imperial/SAE shit.
Length, volume and mass specifically (and derivatives, like PSI). Temperature is ok.
As a celsius user I have absolutely no need for fahrenheit. It needs more numbers when there is no need for more precision. Half a degree C is barely even noticable.
It's one of those things that truly and honestly just doesn't matter. Celsius makes more sense if you think about water freezing at 0 and boiling at 100, but beyond that it really doesn't make a big difference.
what happens at 0 F?
I mean 0 C is when the water change its state, but then what happens at 0 F?
actually water melts at 0 deg it freezes below zero.
What really grinds my gears - literally - is having to have two sets of sockets because America. It's really gets annoying when you lose your 10mm socket and the other one isn't quite right, but you can't work out is 18/32s is close enough and then you bust a nut.
I just hate the fact if 10mm is too big, I can get 9mm, but if 15/16 is too big, fuck me, I guess. Bringing the full toolbox over because what random fucking bullshit number comes before it?
Like I'm here to fix shit, not do math to figure out which socket is one size smaller.
I just read that as "socks", which made the last sentence really weird
American cars have been using both metric and SAE fasteners since at least the 1980's. I wish they would just gone all metric so I wouldn't have to drag out two socket sets anytime I need to do anything.
You know what pissed me off earlier this year? We took a trip from the U.S. to Canada and my Prius didn't even have the option to show kmph instead of mph on the dashboard. We looked through the manual, we looked online. My specific model doesn't allow it. Why?!
Because freedom πΊπ²πΊπ²πΊπ²π¦ π¦
LifeProTip glue pocket calculator to steering wheel for these urgent conversions on the road
World work better with "socialism." Because screw capitalism.
Or gun control. Or free healthcare. Or abortion. Or a free online automated tax return system.
or public transport, ending the war on drugs, LGBTQ+ rights, fixing climate change, eating less meat, funding education, non-predatory student loans, living wage, affordable homes, ending slavery in prisons, ending corporations as people, ending super PACs and lobbying, and establishing ranked choice voting or even basic democratic concepts as one-man-one-vote.
Except in drug deals (kg), foot races (5km), and science (Β°C).
And school supplies (9mm)
America is totally used to the KKK
Arma players are more at home with km than miles because they never leave the basement to use it irl
(jk I am that guy)
Fuck, you scared me!
Y'all are just jealous because we're not afraid of fractions