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[–] cheloxin@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago

I've never once had to convert miles to feet or vice versa in nearly 40 years (besides a couple test questions in school). It's a total non issue in the whole SI vs US system debate

[–] tungsten5@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 hours ago

Ya know what. I like that tomato shit to remember the conversion. I like SI far more than US customary tho

[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 24 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

If you want to convert between imperial units, going straight from feet to miles is impractical. You'd be better off knowing the chart of survey units, and they're all small numbers so they're easy to remember.

12 inches in a foot

3 feet in a yard

22 yards in a chain

10 chains in a furlong

8 furlongs in a mile

Of course, i know this because I do 3d art in blender and refuse to set it to metric.

[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 16 points 11 hours ago

Of course, i know this because I do 3d art in blender and refuse to set it to metric.

Did the metric system kill your family or something?

[–] cute_noker@feddit.dk 3 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

How do you do weight measurements? I noticed a lot of Americans use grams

[–] bier@feddit.nl 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Drugs are done in grams i think, methric

[–] ebolapie@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

We use both. Body weight is in pounds, but nutrition is in grams.

In general we use metric more for smaller, more precise weights and imperial for everything else. I don't think I've ever heard anyone measure anything except cocaine in kilograms.

[–] mst@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Remembering 12, 3, 22, 10 and 8 does indeed sound way easier than remembering 1000.

[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 9 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

I know right? it's such an intuitive system with a convenient unit for every scale you might want to work with.

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[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 10 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Of course, i know this because I do 3d art in blender and refuse to set it to metric.

You monster.

[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 10 points 17 hours ago

The dark side can be a pathway to many abilities some might consider ... stupid.

[–] CAVOK@lemmy.world 94 points 1 day ago (7 children)

“In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade—which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it. Whereas in the American system, the answer to ‘How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?’ is ‘Go fuck yourself,’ because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities.” ― Josh Bazell, Wild Thing

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 14 points 20 hours ago

"High. You put the stove on high."

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[–] philosloppy@lemmy.world 21 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

the only thing more aggravating than using imperial is having to listen to all the complaining about how metric is better. We get it, bro; it's out of our control at this point

[–] Angelusz@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I count a flat 8.

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