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Can we all stop making the football field/alligator/sedan/truck measure of length joke? If you want to clown on Americans, quit using the imperial units at all
by xerox13ster 1y ago
Can we all stop making the football field/alligator/sedan/truck measure of length joke?
If you want to clown on Americans, quit using the imperial units at all! Be better than us, don’t stoop to our level and spit in our hair.
Coming from an American who switched to metric a decade ago to lead by example in my friend group.
You may see it has a clever, pithy joke but it is feeding American anti-intellectualism due to the pygmalion effect. Treat someone like they’re going to be stupid, and they’re going to be stupid.
- jebarker 1y ago> Coming from an American who switched to metric a decade ago to lead by example in my friend group. I agree with your overall comment. I’m interested what value you’ve found in actually switching to metric day to day?
- xerox13ster 1y agoI can drink from a marked 1L water bottle in the morning before I've weighed myself for the day and subtract the volume of water I drank so I don't have to weigh immediately when it's cold and I'd rather not be nude, which means I can take my ADHD meds without getting out of bed, letting me take them earlier which sets me up for success. Calorie counts become more precise as well, when you measure in grams. 50kg and 100kg are intuitive bounds for healthy weight. I don't know how to put into words how much more sense celsius makes than fahrenheit other than to say you intutively know that 0 is freezing and 30 is fuck me. A kilometer is 1000 steps with an average adult stride length of ~1 meter. How many steps is a mile with an average stride length of 2.5ft-3ft? There's some other stuff around cooking and sous vide. it makes dealing with weights of liquids very intuitive.