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☆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

#RantOfTheMoment #metric #politics #science

Americans will use anything but the #Metric system

#smol #caturday #caturdayeveryday

Americans will use anything but the #Metric system

#smol #caturday #caturdayeveryday

Americans will use anything but the #Metric system

#smol #caturday #caturdayeveryday

Americans will use anything but the #Metric system

#smol #caturday #caturdayeveryday

Americans will use anything but the #Metric system

#smol #caturday #caturdayeveryday

Oh cruft, upgraded my weather station software (weewx) and no longer have freedumb units displayed. #metric

Oh cruft, upgraded my weather station software (weewx) and no longer have freedumb units displayed. #metric

Oh cruft, upgraded my weather station software (weewx) and no longer have freedumb units displayed. #metric

Oh cruft, upgraded my weather station software (weewx) and no longer have freedumb units displayed. #metric

Oh cruft, upgraded my weather station software (weewx) and no longer have freedumb units displayed. #metric

The Life of a #Metric

https://victoriametrics.com/blog/the-life-of-a-metric/

#Observability
#VictoriaMetrics

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."

#Nite #HomePod #Music #Metric

Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/help-im-alive/1440945965?i=1440945967

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/0cahtHEywK64NSWqm2SDTi

@dianea

"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

#metric #ImperialMeasures

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.

Americans will use anything but the #Metric System
#smol #bunny

I ♥ the metric system. That is all. #metric

Americans will use anything but the #metric system

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."

#instructions #metric #MetricSystem #curse #swear #AYFKM

#Imperial vs. #Metric System 🛠️

This is what happens every time my partner and I plan a road trip, build furniture, shop for beverages and basically perform any activity that involves measurements.

#ThrowbackThursday
#Relationships
#Comics

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 [...]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/civil-war-cannonballs-found-in-passengers-suitcase_n_6a6bcc6ee4b098352c3163ac

#metric #MetricSystem #AnythingButMetric #USA #units #UnitsOfMeasure

@RikerGoogling

Also, "what is mph".

#AnythingButMetric #metric

> Dimensions: 34 × 18 × 9mm (approximately the size of a thumb)

#AnythingButMetric #metric #datasheet

#brokenSocialScene #metric and #stars tonight in #boston! We’re in the front center, wahoo! #starsBand #metricBand #music #BostonMusic

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.

#metric #TeamSIUnits #numeracy

ALL of the music this evening by all THREE incredible bands has been just INSANELY danceable, by the way!!!

#Stars #BrokenSocialScene #Metric

Kindly observe the #smolness in either #metric or crapperial 😄

#FloofSon #Sunny

#Canada is not the only country that is somewhat #schizoid about #units / #metric and #Imperial measures.

I bought a roll of copper foil tape from China (AliExpress, natch) that was described as "20 mm x 393.7 inches". Why they didn't just say 10 meters is beyond me 😆

#AliExpress #wat #meters #inches

European: "So, a two-by-four is ... ?"

North American: "In your terms, 89 by 38 millimeters."

European: "... I see. And that works out to an even number of inches or something?"

North American: "No."

#lumber #dimension #DimensionalLumber #NorthAmerica #Imperial #units #measurement #metric

Today’s top female lead singers of rock! 2026 Update

The list below identifies the reigning female lead singers of today’s rock music scene. Please note that it does not include singers who perform under their given name like Taylor Swift or Phoebe Bridgers. In Phoebe’s case, she does qualify for the list under Better Oblivion Community Center and boygenius.

However, in some instances, the band name listed is the same as the singer’s stage name, such as Blondshell and Girlhouse. As more outstanding female musical artists are discovered, they will added to the list. Peace and rock on!

Iona Lynch – Cliffords (Ireland)

Julie Dawson – NewDad (Ireland) – added 12/2/25

Ellie Rowsell – Wolf Alice (England)

Jessica Dobson – Deep Sea Diver

Hayley Williams – Paramore

Sabrina Mae Teitelbaum – Blondshell

Lily Aron – Florence Road (Ireland)

Ritzy Bryan – The Joy Formidable (Wales)

Sharon Van Etten – Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory

Etta Friedman and Allegra Weingarten – Momma

Florence Welch – Florence & The Machine (Ireland)

Annie Clark – St. Vincent

Phoebe Bridgers – Better Oblivion Community Center and boygenius

Jane Fitzsimmons – Twen – added 4/4/26

Shirley Manson – Garbage (England and USA)

Rebecca Lovell – Larkin Poe

Jordan Miller – The Beaches (Canada) – added 4/4/26

Venus O’Broin – Swapmeet (Australia) – added 4/4/26

Emily Haines – Metric and Broken Social Scene (Canada)

Lauren Luiz – Girlhouse

Leah Fay Goldstein – July Talk (Canada)

Karen Orzolek – Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs

Maisie Everett – Belair Lip Bombs (Australia) – added 4/4/26

Diana Suteu – The Palais (England)

"The #culture that feels the most dangerous, and, thus, exciting to young people, will be what you can’t see online. And the most #dangerous thing for #platforms is not racist garbage. It’s #unmonetizeable content. The “#metric” that will matter most going forward will not be the numbers at the bottom of a post or video, but the #humanbeings in a room that left their house to experience something. Which, of course, will be filmed and put back online. You can’t escape #thematrix entirely."

melodic dissonance (drum & bass mix)
https://soundcloud.com/uninoize/melodic-dissonance

#dancefloor #drumandbass #dnb #breakbeat #breaks #metric #pnau #camo&krooked #e11e #dimension #aktive #subfocus #90s #nostalgic #rock #altrock #electro #jungle #remix #mashup #turntablism

Fini de tout coller ! Quel est votre préféré ?

Merci @jastrow @altis @stephaniewalter @ParisWeb @eff @maiana8l @Mastodon #SpaceInvader #Metric #ClitRevolution #Ruby #Radio5050
#UnLivreUneTasseDeThé #Firefox #GoVegan #KissKissBankBank #EatTheRich #Antifa #Threadless #LeWagon

Metric - Speed The Collapse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLVdtH8LyRU #nowplaying #metric #indierock #postpunkrevival #synthpop

why #Feet and not #meters ? Use the #metric system 🤣🤣🤣

I did a post on Threads (https://www.threads.net/@realinvalidname/post/Cz1NgmrOVK_) asking the algorithm for more stuff I like. No algorithm here (good!), but maybe some hashtags will help find like-minded Mastodonians:

🏈: #Stanford, #GoHabsGo, #GoBolts
🎵: #Metric, #NewPornographers, #BendSinister, #MyChemicalRomance, #ManicStreetPreachers, #TheTubes, #AnimeMusic, #VideoGameMusic
👾: #ValkyriaChronicles, #FinalFantasy, #FireEmblem, #TheDioFieldChronicle, #SoulCalibur, #MuvLuv
📺: #KaguyaSama, #86, #MadokaMagica, #RumblingHearts

#TruthBeTold
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There's a clever math trick to convert from Celsius to Centigrade without using a calculator…

#math #temperature #metric #imperial #Fahrenheit #Kelvin #one #Sweden
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#TruthBeTold = A statement that is logically or literally true (or partly true), but seems to imply something that isn’t true or is just plain weird. (for rhetoric, logic or propaganda studies… or just for fun)

(PD image from Wikimedia commons)