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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/Un
by 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 agoTo 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 agoThey 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)