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Funny story? Not a funny story. We are not metric. We would be metric if you bought items in metric. We do not. Doesn't matter what the scientist use. It matter

Funny story? Not a funny story. We are not metric. We would be metric if you bought items in metric. We do not. Doesn't matter what the scientist use. It matters what milk and bread is sold in. We buy drinks in liters and gallons. Those are not metric.

robin_reala 7y ago
Litres are metric?
- SahAssar 7y ago
  Yep, one litre is equal to 1 dm3 or 1 kg of water.
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kube-system 7y ago
>It matters what milk and bread is sold in. The FPLA requires metric units to be included on labeling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Packaging_and_Labeling_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Packaging_and_Labeling_Ac... https://www.nist.gov/standardsgov/compliance-faqs-packaging-and-labeling-us https://www.nist.gov/standardsgov/compliance-faqs-packaging-...
- thedaemon 7y ago
  Yeah, we all see metric on the items we buy. None of us understand what that means. We understand 1 Gallon, not 3.785411784 L. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units
  - kube-system 7y ago
    To the contrary, I've seen 3.8L or 3.78L written on every gallon jug for my entire lifetime. I know that conversion off the top of my head... even before I had mandatory science classes where I formally learned the same. But even if you haven't read any of the text on a milk jug over the past half-century, surely you've seen one of these before?: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71x5rVYbJUL._SX522_.jpg https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71x5rVYbJUL...
  - mattlondon 7y ago
    They said the same thing here in the UK years ago (the 90s I think) when they started forcing labels on food to have metric. "I want a pound of sugar, not 453g!" Turns out the world didn't actually burn down. The containers mostly stayed the same size, but I think they slowly gravitated towards logical sizes (so e.g. that 453g package became 500g or 400g at some point)

robin_reala 7y ago

Litres are metric?

SahAssar 7y ago
Yep, one litre is equal to 1 dm3 or 1 kg of water.

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kube-system 7y ago

>It matters what milk and bread is sold in. The FPLA requires metric units to be included on labeling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Packaging_and_Labeling_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Packaging_and_Labeling_Ac... https://www.nist.gov/standardsgov/compliance-faqs-packaging-and-labeling-us https://www.nist.gov/standardsgov/compliance-faqs-packaging-...

thedaemon 7y ago
Yeah, we all see metric on the items we buy. None of us understand what that means. We understand 1 Gallon, not 3.785411784 L. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units
- kube-system 7y ago
  To the contrary, I've seen 3.8L or 3.78L written on every gallon jug for my entire lifetime. I know that conversion off the top of my head... even before I had mandatory science classes where I formally learned the same. But even if you haven't read any of the text on a milk jug over the past half-century, surely you've seen one of these before?: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71x5rVYbJUL._SX522_.jpg https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71x5rVYbJUL...
- mattlondon 7y ago
  They said the same thing here in the UK years ago (the 90s I think) when they started forcing labels on food to have metric. "I want a pound of sugar, not 453g!" Turns out the world didn't actually burn down. The containers mostly stayed the same size, but I think they slowly gravitated towards logical sizes (so e.g. that 453g package became 500g or 400g at some point)