Most of us know what two liters of carbonated sugar water looks like.
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Hey, that's flavored carbonated sugar water if you don't mind.
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.
Every US company I’ve (engineer) worked for has been a metric company
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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.223: Proper American rifle round.
5.56: Communist European rifle round.
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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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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And the only time they use the proper date format is their national holiday.
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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Hey, we also measure our large soda bottles that way!
And street drugs
and drugs
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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whats fucking weird to me is that we use millimeters and inches on the same fucking rulers.
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they would freak out if they have to measure temperature in kelvins, even celcius freaks americans out.
Also wetsuits…? 🤷♀️