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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Most of us know what two liters of carbonated sugar water looks like.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Hey, that's flavored carbonated sugar water if you don't mind.

[–] joel_feila@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

This is why i use the amertric system

It 318 kft not 60 mi or 100 km. That avalanche was 1 decaempire State building in volume. 1 mi is actually 2.28 kft.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Every US company I’ve (engineer) worked for has been a metric company

[–] jawa22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I (machinist) have only seen a few large US firms or companies send me a metric print. Different worlds, I guess.

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

.223: Proper American rifle round.

5.56: Communist European rifle round.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

5.56 puts out slightly higher pressures. I used to have a bolt action .223 rifle that wasn't rated for 5.56. I sold it to an old guy in the country who was going to use it to kill coyotes stalking his chickens and small livestock.

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[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

cops: "9mm is too weak! we need something with 'stopping power!"

gun people: "ok here's 10mm"

cops: "too much recoil!"

gun people: "ok here's .40 s&w"

cops: "u no wat, we're just gonna stick with 9mm"

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[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (4 children)

And the only time they use the proper date format is their national holiday.

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you mean dd-mm-yyyy instead of mm-dd-yyyy, I’d agree it’s superior. That said, other countries have us both with their fully ISO compliant yyyy-mm-dd standard.

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[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hey, we also measure our large soda bottles that way!

[–] petersr@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

And street drugs

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ignore all the rest of the US rounds like .30-06, .30-30, .357, etc.

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[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago
[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

Took me a while to realize that Caliber is roughly inch/100. Once I did I no longer needed to memorize them.

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[–] MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

whats fucking weird to me is that we use millimeters and inches on the same fucking rulers.

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[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

they would freak out if they have to measure temperature in kelvins, even celcius freaks americans out.

[–] I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Also wetsuits…? 🤷‍♀️

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