• Mr_Blott@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      If we’re talking internationally, please don’t use fridges and shoes as measurements

      WTF is that in the sizes that 97% of the planet uses? 😂

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        There’s very close to 3ft in one meter so the Civic is 2Mx5M.

        Thing is they included Metric at the top of their comment so I don’t know why you couldn’t extrapolate.

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        1 year ago

        I won’t downvote because obviously we should be using metric, and also it was funny. However, they put it in metric first. We can’t help you if you demand metric but can’t figure out how big that is.

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        1 year ago

        Really? You’re afraid of a little math to convert when you speak a language that decided 96 (Ninety Six) should be said four-twenty-ten-six?

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          1 year ago

          Native English speaker, my apologies for being bilingual

          I default to that which most people understand. That doesn’t include pedal extremities

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            1 year ago

            The foot isn’t an SI unit, but the US influence on the internet and social media as a whole means it isn’t some obscure unheard of unit. Besides, the foot has been defined by SI units for a while now, and the survey foot being done away with makes it publically official. It’s just a conversion factor.

            Then again being that pedantic is totally a reddit thing, so it’s good to see that hasn’t been lost in the migration.

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                1 year ago

                So the US has no influence on the internet or social media? In denial much?

                Realize here my argument is that the US is some exceptional example of a country, the literal definition of exceptionalism, but there is enough influence for the general internet population to understand what a foot is. Just like how I know what a stone is without the UK being some exceptional utopia. If someone says they weight 12 stone I convert in my head and go about my day.

                But hey. this all started when someone said 15m2 was larger than a parking spot. I said no and showed my work. The units I used were irrelevant. This whole tangent is your own pedantry.

                EDIT: For those curious, Mr_Blott deleted his reply that called my comment on the US having an influence on the internet US exceptionalism, and that should have been lost in the migration.