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Now do metric vs imperial.

• artisinal 3mo ago
  Nothing screams freedom more than using ancient terms like horsepower and measuring tires in inches and percentages. The other day I heard an American talk about a TV being 65 inches. Took me a while to understand they had a 165 centimeter diagonal television.
  • alehlopeh 3mo ago
    Surely you mean tyres? It’s all arbitrary. Get over yourself.
  • clickety_clack 3mo ago
    I bet you’d use lightyears over petametres or exametres though.
    • Alpha3031 3mo ago
      It's more typical to use parsecs in practice for astronomy.
      • fsckboy 3mo ago
        yeah, and imagine living without decameters and hectometers, unthinkable!
  • tancop 3mo ago
    most tv makers and electronics stores in europe give you the screen size in inches first and cm second. they only come in a few common sizes so the specific units dont really matter.
  • vel0city 3mo ago
    Speaking of tires, its actually a crazy mixture of units here in the US. You might have a size like P215/65R15 which translates to a radial passenger tire of a 15" rim, 215mm wide tread (sidewall to sidewall), and an aspect ratio of 65 which is a ratio of the sidewall to tread width. So a tire size is expressed in inches, millimeters, and ratios.
  • throwatdem12311 3mo ago
    I’m Canadian and we’re mostly on metric but due to our proximity to the USA we use imperial for things like tires and TVs and it’s kinda silly but I’m used to it
• Jblx2 3mo ago
  ahem U.S. Customary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units