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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Again, so metric then, as the imperial system is arbitrary shit that make no sense from hundreds of yours ago that only still is in use in the IS and a few third world countries, and ONLY because conservatives in the US refuse to get with the program.

    Literally the entire world switched to the metric system because it works, and the US literally got left behind because conservative values.







  • One kilometer is 1000 meters, one meter is 1000 millimeters. One square meter is 1,000,000 millimeters, one cubic meter is 1000 liters.

    1 liter of water is 1 kilograms, so 1 cubic meter is 1000 kilograms. Sand is about 2.3 times heavier than water, so 1 cubic meter of sand is 2300 kilograms, or 2.3 metric tonnes.

    I’m 1.96 meters tall, or 1 meter and 960 millimeters, or 1 meter and 96 centimeters. I weigh about 85 kilos, or 85.000 grams. Being 65% water, I carry about 55.25 kilograms of water, which will fill a little over 55 one liter water bottles

    I can do this all day

    Now let’s do the same with imperial units! You first, cuz I’m not going to touch that shit with a 10 foot pole…


  • Doesn’t the reason why the avg US citizen wants imperial units boil down to “sounds cooler”?

    Kilometer vs Miles, the former latter sounds easier and cooler to work with

    Centimeter vs inch, same.

    How will they now call a two by four?

    It’s kind of the same for the pro gun arguments, it all boils down to “but guns are cool toys!”

    Edit: fixed a duuuhhh