Comment by regalia@literature.cafe on Freedom units 💯

Why does the US live rent free in so many European’s heads all the time?

Because each time we look for some English content, they use some dumb fantasy metrics based on the size fo the feet of a king for some reason, and we need to look up a converter to change it to a metric used in 195 different countries.

You mean x football fields.

Coincidentally both “football fields” are pretty close in length.

1 yard is about a meter. 3 feet in a yard. Just divide by 3 and that’s good enough for 99% of cases.

I think you meant Americans can multiply metres by three, instead of 195 countries accommodating to just them

I measure in freedom units brother!

Also how did feet/metric get brought up, that’s not even remotely relevant, tf lol.

It’s really not hard to convert.

Then why don’t you Just switch

Because it’s a massive waste of money for little to no benefit, and barely actually comes up because unit conversion is trivial and is done constantly regardless of overall unit system.

Armchair unit system fanatics make it out to be such a bigger deal than it is. Whether im working in metric or standard I’m doing several to several dozen dimensional analyses anyway, normally with industry specific units. Which again, exist in both standard and si.

If you grow up in the US, you learn both systems and you’re able to convert between them. It’s easy.

2.2 pounds to the kg

1 inch is 25.4 mm

A gallon is 3.8 liters

But it’s fun watching supposedly intelligent people from other countries who reeeeeee when seeing imperial units.

? i don’t know about you, but multiplying 19" times 25.4 isnt something easy at all to do quickly in your head. Also, not to mention the best example: when i have to convert cm to m I move the comma

when I have to convert from cm to freedom units: -Divide the height in centimeters by 30.48 and write down the whole number as feet

-Multiply the decimal part of the above division by 12

-Round the result of the multiplication to the nearest whole number and write it down as inches

like, really? you have to use two different units added together for one thing? How is that easy?

when i have to convert cm to m I move the comma

I feel the real war we need to fight over is whether the decimal point or the decimal comma is the one true decimal separator.

Yea confuses me every time

How is it hard? Aren’t people in the rest of the world much better educated than people in the US?

You’d think so until you listen to them talk

Freedom units… Oh, you mean imperial? As in, Britain? Yeah, we’re just using their old system and haven’t bothered to change unless there’s a practical necessity.

The British still gladly mix both systems inconsistently. They measure themselves in stones & buy cars based on liter per mile fuel efficiency.

Which is exactly why we had to kick them out of the EU. This is obviously a joke. They went because their politicians are incompetent liars.

I didn’t know Canada and Australia were in Europe

That’s American geography

They aren’t, which makes this meme even funnier because in my experience Canadians and Aussies are pretty likely to understand both systems and wouldn’t have a problem identifying either.

I’d put money on this having been made by a European.

Australian here. Celsius is all we use here really. I’d have to convert to Celsius to understand Fahrenheit units.

As a Canadian myself, it really depends. Most of us only understand farenheit in certain contexts. Some of us can understand it for weather but I think that’s mostly older generations. I use farenheit for oven and pool temperature only. In every other context, it is meaningless to me.

The crossover is so fascinating to me.

Like you just nonchalantly use it for pools and ovens and nothing else. Kind of like we use liters randomly for certain soda bottles and basically nothing else.

Oh I know! It’s so weird. Ovens are probably because we get ours from the US, but why we do pool temperature in farenheit is a mystery to me.

People are definitely strange creatures lol

I love that the meme is about Canada, Australia, and the US(ish), yet it’s the Europeans that get called out by this guy. Who’s living rent free in whose head? ;)

I’d assume because the internet is 90% catered to american’s.

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