• aproposnix@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I’m originally from the US. Since living in Europe, I can’t believe how much easier the metric system is. I can not convert between the two so I dropped imperial. The only time I deal with it is when I call family in the states.

    I do recall, when I was a kid, they tried to convert the US to metric, but it failed miserably.

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      1 year ago

      they didn’t really try. it’s more of a suggestion (and still is). metric is standard in the US within science, just not among regular folks because commercially it’s not as dramatic, i.e. news stations dramatize 100F!!! since it sounds way more dramatic than 38°C. if the news and commercial products started using metric, people would quickly switch over.

      unfortunately a lot of imperial shit has started migrating to europe due to chinese products being produced for the US market and then sold in europe as an afterthought using imperial units.

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        1 year ago

        You already got me dying mentioning 38c. Its just a case of what you’ve grown up with. USA should defo swap, but they would have to display both for a long time for people to understand. If the weather and such started showing both and mentioning temps in both, then yeah it would probably take off.

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        1 year ago

        unfortunately a lot of imperial shit has started migrating to europe due to chinese products being produced for the US market and then sold in europe as an afterthought using imperial units.

        Remember buying TVs in centimetres?

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      1 year ago

      Change is hard. In Europe we wanted to drop daylight saving time, but nobody could agree on which hour to keep. So it’s here to stay. Sigh.

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          1 year ago

          Actually no. This year was the last spring forward, at least for the US. We’re not falling back to standard time this year and never will again.

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            1 year ago

            Leave it to the US to, in the choice between a “standard” thing and an off-standard thing to choose the off-standard option.

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        1 year ago

        they did not move entirely, they still use miles and such

        they are the imposter, deserve orange mark on the map LOL