#metric — Public Fediverse posts
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🎵 Metric - Antigravity▶️ Écouter / Listen : VorteX [Radio]
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New blog post!
☆On metric☆
Maybe I'm just so done with *gestures vaguely* that being a bit petty will blow off steam, but honestly? Americans use metric. We use whatever is useful. Which really begs the question: if metric is so great, then why wouldn't we use it for everything?
Not "freedom units;" unit freedom
It offends me that the rest of the world doesn't realize(...) https://blog.bluestarcreations.net/rant-of-the-moment/on-metric
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Americans will use anything but the #Metric system
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Americans will use anything but the #Metric system
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Americans will use anything but the #Metric system
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Americans will use anything but the #Metric system
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Americans will use anything but the #Metric system
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Oh cruft, upgraded my weather station software (weewx) and no longer have freedumb units displayed. #metric
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Oh cruft, upgraded my weather station software (weewx) and no longer have freedumb units displayed. #metric
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Oh cruft, upgraded my weather station software (weewx) and no longer have freedumb units displayed. #metric
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Oh cruft, upgraded my weather station software (weewx) and no longer have freedumb units displayed. #metric
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Oh cruft, upgraded my weather station software (weewx) and no longer have freedumb units displayed. #metric
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Past me bought #Metric tickest for Saturday and this is going to be *the best*!
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2026 Hey Siri Songs - Day 244
"Hey Siri. Play Help I'm Alive by Metric."
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/help-im-alive/1440945965?i=1440945967
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/0cahtHEywK64NSWqm2SDTi
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"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
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I am envious of people in other countries that use the #metric system.
Here in the USA, we still use measurements of bananas, washing machines, religious chicken sauce packets, elephants, and so called "football" stadiums.
Consider yourself lucky that measurements can easily be quantized in units of ten for scientific and engineering scales and people know what the hell you are talking about.
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My partner brought back some #sunscreen from a trip to #Greece. I was looking at the directions on it, and they're quite a bit different from what I'm used to on North American brands. They included this:
> Apply at least 2 mg per cm^2 of skin.
My first thought was "You have GOT to be fucking with me."
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Americans Will Use Anything But Metric, part 37:
> The cannonballs — the largest about the size of grapefruits
> and weighing about as much as a shot put ball [...]#metric #MetricSystem #AnythingButMetric #USA #units #UnitsOfMeasure
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> Dimensions: 34 × 18 × 9mm (approximately the size of a thumb)
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#brokenSocialScene #metric and #stars tonight in #boston! We’re in the front center, wahoo! #starsBand #metricBand #music #BostonMusic
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For the most part, I am a serious advocate for the US adopting SI units. I've traveled all over, lived abroad and dealing with meters and kilometers and so on was really not a problem.
However, I do like Fahrenheit for temperature -- Celsius makes scientific sense, but humans just don't deal with negative numbers well, and so many live in places where part of the year you have negative temperatures. With Fahrenheit, most of humanity could express every temperature they encounter with a positive 2-digit number.
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ALL of the music this evening by all THREE incredible bands has been just INSANELY danceable, by the way!!!
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The Coastline Paradox [measurement]
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https://sketchplanations.com/the-coastline-paradox <-- shared technical article 1
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https://ars.electronica.art/keplersgardens/en/coastline-paradox/ <-- shared technical article 2
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #gischat #coastlineparadox #coastline #measurement #metric #scale #scaledependency #fractal #research #math #mathematics #Mandelbrot #wiggliness #accuracy #precision #map #cartography #relative #length #generalisation #fractaldimension #fractal #rivers #borders #appliedscience
