Claims to be in the American wilderness
uses Metric
South Americans.
Every red white and blue blooded American uses the foot!
Unlike with longer distances and temperature, Americans don’t strictly use imperial for shorter distances (m, cm, mm). It’s on all of the signs and stuff, but we learn metric in school as well as how to convert to and from. In university-level physics classes, they almost solely use metric. So as an American myself, I didn’t bat an eye at him using meters. But if they said that it was 30C outside…
It helps that meters and yards are very similar in size. Of course they drift as the distances get larger but in my mind 300m is a pretty reasonable thing to visualize. Just a tad larger than 300yd—about 3 football fields (Inb4 stereotype)
Km though? I still struggle to compare it to a mile. When someone says “50km” my mind has a hard time imperializing it. What’s that, like 35 miles?
Maybe memorizing how the km lines up with the mi on my car speedometer would help.
think fibonacci sequence and you’re in good shape
34 comes before 55, then 3 comes before 5, so 50 km is (55-5) km = (34-3) mi = 31. It works shockingly well
Personally know several metric nuts who insist on using metric in their day-to-day life.
“Metric nut” sounds like there’s a measurement to their insanity in the metric system
A big chunk (a majority?) of the North American wilderness is in countries that use metric.
No Canadian would go into the wilderness and say they went into the American wilderness…
Family has never walked 300m
American
I swear yal post/upvote the most normie greentexts. Where’s the crazy off the wall shit?
The crazy ones I’ve posted get downvoted to hell. People seem to equate laughing at Anon with supporting whatever craziness Anon has written.
Lemmy has no chill lol. We might even be more prudish than Reddit. My guess is our demographic skews older so people here don’t care for “dank” content as much.
Almost ever community is way too serious. They need to remove the stick from their ass.
Sounds like a failure to set good expectations. Sure there are times people just don’t listen, but if everyone else is saying this kind of thing, maybe there’s a common factor…
The best way to find people to go on hikes with is on hikes