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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
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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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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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Given the metric tensor g_ij, with i and j being 0, 1, 2 or 3 at a given point in space. We also have a fixed three dimensional unit vector e^i with i being 1, 2 or 3. Using Einstein Notation define
\alpha = (1/g_{ij} e^i e^j) \left( \sqrt{ (g_{0i} e^i)^2 - g_{00}} - g_0i e^i \right)
Can we show that alpha is invariant under coordinate transformation. I asked an AI, said "yes". But????
Why should this be possible? See here: https://blog.miamao.de/blog/Speed_of_Light_from_Metric.html
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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.
Cliffords – Source: instagram.comHowever, 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!
Deep Sea Diver – Source: instagram.comIona 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)
Florence Road- Source: Spotify.comRitzy 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
Twen – Source: songbyrddc.comShirley 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
Swapmeet -Source: monsterchildren.comEmily 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)
Wolf Alice – Source: thetimes.co.uk #Blondshell #boygenius #DeepSeaDiver #florenceTheMachine #FlorenceRoad #garbage #girlhouse #Hole #JulyTalk #LarkinPoe #Metric #Momma #music #NewDad #Paramore #rock #StVincent #TheAttachmentTheory #TheJoyFormidable #ThePalais #WolfAlice #YeahYeahYeahs -
🎶 ’Cause you know I’d walk a thousand six hundred nine point thirty-four kilometers if I could just see you tonight 🎵
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Burn the System Down and Start a Fire (Rock, HipHop)
https://soundcloud.com/uninoize/burn-the-system-down-and-start#neighborhoodkids #startafire #billytalent #90smusic #90s #teaparty #sevenlions #seespotrun #inbreds #rentals #elliottsmith #metric #mrrobot #velvetunderground #70smusic #70srock #altrock #indierock
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Im #vereinigten #Königreich würden #DatenCenter #offiziell 0,79% der #Energie #verbrauchen, wobei die #eigentliche #Zahl eher 12% sein dürfte. Eine ähnliche #Diskrepanz gelte für #globale #Zahlen.
Melissa #Cogavin - #DataCentres & #Sustainability in 2024
#Broadband #Journal of the #SCTE Vol. 46 No. 2 May 2024, S. 17 -
From Perception To Action - Participatory Water Risk Assessment In Nagaon District Of Assam, India
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103862 <-- shared paper
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#water #hydrology #risk #hazard #participatorymethods #Community #resilience #Foodwaternexus #foodsecurity #watersecurity #climatechange #extremeweather #flood #flooding #drought #nagaon #assam #india #waterresources #watermanagement #food #agriculture #communityinvolvement #opinions #perspectives #metric #index #rural #waterquality #publichealth #diseases #irrigation #infrastructure #policy #planning #investment #watermanagement #sustainability #mitigation -
From Perception To Action - Participatory Water Risk Assessment In Nagaon District Of Assam, India
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103862 <-- shared paper
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#water #hydrology #risk #hazard #participatorymethods #Community #resilience #Foodwaternexus #foodsecurity #watersecurity #climatechange #extremeweather #flood #flooding #drought #nagaon #assam #india #waterresources #watermanagement #food #agriculture #communityinvolvement #opinions #perspectives #metric #index #rural #waterquality #publichealth #diseases #irrigation #infrastructure #policy #planning #investment #watermanagement #sustainability #mitigation -
From Perception To Action - Participatory Water Risk Assessment In Nagaon District Of Assam, India
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103862 <-- shared paper
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#water #hydrology #risk #hazard #participatorymethods #Community #resilience #Foodwaternexus #foodsecurity #watersecurity #climatechange #extremeweather #flood #flooding #drought #nagaon #assam #india #waterresources #watermanagement #food #agriculture #communityinvolvement #opinions #perspectives #metric #index #rural #waterquality #publichealth #diseases #irrigation #infrastructure #policy #planning #investment #watermanagement #sustainability #mitigation -
From Perception To Action - Participatory Water Risk Assessment In Nagaon District Of Assam, India
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103862 <-- shared paper
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#water #hydrology #risk #hazard #participatorymethods #Community #resilience #Foodwaternexus #foodsecurity #watersecurity #climatechange #extremeweather #flood #flooding #drought #nagaon #assam #india #waterresources #watermanagement #food #agriculture #communityinvolvement #opinions #perspectives #metric #index #rural #waterquality #publichealth #diseases #irrigation #infrastructure #policy #planning #investment #watermanagement #sustainability #mitigation -
From Perception To Action - Participatory Water Risk Assessment In Nagaon District Of Assam, India
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103862 <-- shared paper
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#water #hydrology #risk #hazard #participatorymethods #Community #resilience #Foodwaternexus #foodsecurity #watersecurity #climatechange #extremeweather #flood #flooding #drought #nagaon #assam #india #waterresources #watermanagement #food #agriculture #communityinvolvement #opinions #perspectives #metric #index #rural #waterquality #publichealth #diseases #irrigation #infrastructure #policy #planning #investment #watermanagement #sustainability #mitigation -
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The #Wasserstein #metric (#EMD) can be used, to train #GenerativeAdversarialNetworks (#GANs) more effectively. This tutorial compares a default GAN with a #WassersteinGAN (#WGAN) trained on the #MNIST dataset.
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Today, from the "doesn't really matter because they're never used" department...
I think that U.S. #Metric speed limit #Signs should have a red ring around the number, even though the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices says that the ring should be black.
It's still a #Regulatory sign with the red ring, and it would stand out a lot more.
More: https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/
#RoadGeek #RoadSign #MUTCD #FederalHighwayAdministration #FHA #UrbanPlanning #CityPlanning #TrafficControl #SpeedLimit
