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For the international audience who don't use freedom units, 6.4 (US) gallons is ~24.2 liters.

by depressedpanda 3y ago

xhainingx 3y ago
And $0.01 is ~€0.01
avmich 3y ago
Freedom units?
- usefulcat 3y ago
  Possibly a reference to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries
  - jes5199 3y ago
    that event is older than this website
  - moffkalast 3y ago
    > Chairman of the Committee on House Administration, Bob Ney, renamed the menu item in three Congressional cafeterias. The political renaming occurred in context of France's opposition to the proposed invasion of Iraq "Refuse to go to war with us? We'll... remove you from our cafeteria menu! Take that!" "... what do you mean they're actually Belgian?"
- promiseofbeans 3y ago
  A joking way to refer to the American units of measurement - feet, gallons, pounds, etc. It's a commentary on all the unique and interesting ways Americans appear to measure things. Sometimes people will take it further by, for example, converting a length in meters into football fields or bald eagle wingspans.
  - avmich 3y ago
    The confusion comes from naming American units "imperial" - after British, and having international - metric - system created by the French revolution, with "liberte" an important goal. So it could be argued that it's actually SI which has freedom units. On the other hands, Americans are quite often characterized as freedom "distributors"...
    - jrmg 3y ago
      American units of volume are different (most smaller by about 20%) to Imperial units.
    - jdblair 3y ago
      The American system is called "customary units." The pint, quart and gallon are all smaller than British imperial versions.
      - kwhitefoot 3y ago
        Most Americans that I have pointed this out to look at me in disbelief. The vast majority have never heard of US Customary Units. Whenever they refer to their system of measure they say imperial, and many are unaware that volume measure in the Imperial system is different from US Customary. I fought again the use of imperial as the name for the system for over twenty years in a multinational company to no avail.
        jdblair 3y ago
        Send them this handbook from NIST! :) Section 2 covers all of the customary measurements, some with names hardly anyone knows (Apothecaries Units? Gunter's Chain Units?) https://www.nist.gov/system/files/documents/pml/wmd/pubs/2016/02/18/appc-16-hb44-final.pdf https://www.nist.gov/system/files/documents/pml/wmd/pubs/201...
        kwhitefoot 3y ago
        NIST is also a good source for information about SI!
- rainbowzootsuit 3y ago
  There are two kinds of countries on earth: Those that use the metric system. Those that landed a man on the Moon.
  - defrost 3y ago
    The country that landed men on the moon adopted the metric systems as the basis of its measures before most other countries and programmed its moon landing systems using metric. The country is a metric country (see: Official definition of the US foot). Its citizens, however, largely still roll coal measured by chains to the hogshead.
    - rainbowzootsuit 3y ago
      The previous moon thing is a joke and at least partially an explanation for "freedom units," which is a joking (I think) commentary about the citizenry's beliefs about "their freedoms," and somehow these freedoms translates to freedom from using the metric system when they roll coal along a couple furlongs of interstate (in a truck that contains only metric fasteners.)
  - Smoosh 3y ago
    Liberia landed a man on the moon?
  - guappa 3y ago
    Can you list a country that landed men on the moon who didn't have to hire German scientists to achieve that?
  - littlestymaar 3y ago
    Yet the governmental agency responsible for the moon landing acknowledged that metric is a better system and adopted it…
    - detourdog 3y ago
      My problem with the metric scale is that when values are expressed in scientific notion they lose all reference to me. I try to learn but the only thing I think I have retained is that if the number has a negative 6 its most likely a small number.
hunglee2 3y ago
much appreciate ;-)

For the international audience who don't use freedom units, 6.4 (US) gallons is ~24.2 liters.

xhainingx 3y ago

And $0.01 is ~€0.01

avmich 3y ago

Freedom units?

usefulcat 3y ago
Possibly a reference to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries
- jes5199 3y ago
  that event is older than this website
- moffkalast 3y ago
  > Chairman of the Committee on House Administration, Bob Ney, renamed the menu item in three Congressional cafeterias. The political renaming occurred in context of France's opposition to the proposed invasion of Iraq "Refuse to go to war with us? We'll... remove you from our cafeteria menu! Take that!" "... what do you mean they're actually Belgian?"
promiseofbeans 3y ago
A joking way to refer to the American units of measurement - feet, gallons, pounds, etc. It's a commentary on all the unique and interesting ways Americans appear to measure things. Sometimes people will take it further by, for example, converting a length in meters into football fields or bald eagle wingspans.
- avmich 3y ago
  The confusion comes from naming American units "imperial" - after British, and having international - metric - system created by the French revolution, with "liberte" an important goal. So it could be argued that it's actually SI which has freedom units. On the other hands, Americans are quite often characterized as freedom "distributors"...
  - jrmg 3y ago
    American units of volume are different (most smaller by about 20%) to Imperial units.
  - jdblair 3y ago
    The American system is called "customary units." The pint, quart and gallon are all smaller than British imperial versions.
    - kwhitefoot 3y ago
      Most Americans that I have pointed this out to look at me in disbelief. The vast majority have never heard of US Customary Units. Whenever they refer to their system of measure they say imperial, and many are unaware that volume measure in the Imperial system is different from US Customary. I fought again the use of imperial as the name for the system for over twenty years in a multinational company to no avail.
      - jdblair 3y ago
        Send them this handbook from NIST! :) Section 2 covers all of the customary measurements, some with names hardly anyone knows (Apothecaries Units? Gunter's Chain Units?) https://www.nist.gov/system/files/documents/pml/wmd/pubs/2016/02/18/appc-16-hb44-final.pdf https://www.nist.gov/system/files/documents/pml/wmd/pubs/201...
        kwhitefoot 3y ago
        NIST is also a good source for information about SI!
rainbowzootsuit 3y ago
There are two kinds of countries on earth: Those that use the metric system. Those that landed a man on the Moon.
- defrost 3y ago
  The country that landed men on the moon adopted the metric systems as the basis of its measures before most other countries and programmed its moon landing systems using metric. The country is a metric country (see: Official definition of the US foot). Its citizens, however, largely still roll coal measured by chains to the hogshead.
  - rainbowzootsuit 3y ago
    The previous moon thing is a joke and at least partially an explanation for "freedom units," which is a joking (I think) commentary about the citizenry's beliefs about "their freedoms," and somehow these freedoms translates to freedom from using the metric system when they roll coal along a couple furlongs of interstate (in a truck that contains only metric fasteners.)
- Smoosh 3y ago
  Liberia landed a man on the moon?
- guappa 3y ago
  Can you list a country that landed men on the moon who didn't have to hire German scientists to achieve that?
- littlestymaar 3y ago
  Yet the governmental agency responsible for the moon landing acknowledged that metric is a better system and adopted it…
  - detourdog 3y ago
    My problem with the metric scale is that when values are expressed in scientific notion they lose all reference to me. I try to learn but the only thing I think I have retained is that if the number has a negative 6 its most likely a small number.

hunglee2 3y ago

much appreciate ;-)