Actual poster from 1917 that made me laugh. A lot.

Also, those motherfuckers are measuring the weight of those balls in kilograms, aren’t they?

  • sanpedropeddler@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    We are used to 2 liter bottles, so we still use them. We run 5ks because its been a standard distance to run for a long time. Other countries also do similar things, old habits die hard.

    We use metric for science and medicine because the benefits of metric are much more pronounced for those use cases.

    Honestly, using both really isnt that hard. Its only really an inconvenience if you aren’t already used to it. We aren’t changing it because we’re getting along just fine the way things are, and there are much bigger problems to be solved.

    • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      4 months ago

      for one thing, there will always be “bigger problems to solve,” just like with getting rid of DST, which also needs to fucking die a horrible death already

      for another thing, thank you for providing a perfect example of my last sentence

      • sanpedropeddler@sh.itjust.works
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        4 months ago

        American are willing to change things, we just pick what to change, and we aren’t being inconvenienced by this nearly enough to change it.

        • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          4 months ago

          thank you, again, for illustrating my point. again. care to say the same thing a third time? for the people who just aren’t getting it?

          • sanpedropeddler@sh.itjust.works
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            4 months ago

            By continuing to act like this you are preventing any actual conversation from taking place. You might as well just say “you’re wrong, no I will not elaborate”. If you’re not interested in having a conversation then don’t respond, no one is forcing you to do this.

            If you would like to have a less sarcastic and rude discussion, I’ll be here.

            • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
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              4 months ago

              i made a point:

              more like we’d rather stay with the stupidness and inconvenience we know rather than change anything, no matter how much better it would be

              and you’re agreeing with it. repeatedly. though i don’t know what you think the “debate” here is. are you trying to get me to agree with “no, we shouldn’t change to metric”? because that’s not going to happen. but you can keep trying if that makes you feel better

              • sanpedropeddler@sh.itjust.works
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                4 months ago

                I don’t care that you think we should switch to metric, you said that Americans aren’t switching purely because they hate change, and they don’t care about the potential benefits just because they hate change so damn much. This is what I’ve been arguing against. I honestly have no idea how you could have read all of that and come to the conclusion I’m arguing against the metric system. Every word of it is about why Americans don’t think the switch is worth it.

                • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
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                  4 months ago

                  Every word of it is about why Americans don’t think the switch is worth it.

                  and your premise is flawed. lots of americans think the switch is worth it, and have thought that for over 100 years. so far i’ve ignored your “my opinion = america’s opinion” fallacy, but this has to end at some point. so, think what you want. i concede nothing.

                  • sanpedropeddler@sh.itjust.works
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                    4 months ago

                    So you do know what I’ve been talking about, you just purposely ignored it because you think its invalid? You could not have possibly done a better job at demonstrating to me that you are arguing in bad faith.