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   SaraMG 🏳️‍🌈 (saramg@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 02-May-2023 07:18:26 JST SaraMG 🏳️‍🌈

   Y'all, America desperately needs to embrace the metric system.

   Fer reals.

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     billy joe bowers-8647 (billyjoebowers@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 02-May-2023 19:54:55 JST billy joe bowers-8647

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     @saramg

     I'm still mad we quit switching to metric.

     I was working with a guy in Canada and he was sort of complaining about it being confusing because they switched when he was a kid in the 70s, and I told him we were doing it too until jackasses stopped it. Apparently he never heard that.

     I drive on the only metric highway in the U.S. every day.

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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Tuesday, 02-May-2023 22:46:11 JST feld

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     • Scott Williams 🐧
     • Jonathan Frederickson
     • Jim Goodall
     Sometimes 10 miles takes 8 minutes, sometimes it takes 90. Just depends on the traffic.
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     Scott Williams 🐧 (vwbusguy@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 02-May-2023 22:46:13 JST Scott Williams 🐧

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     • Jim Goodall

     @jimgoodall @saramg When the English and Aussies weigh themselves in "stone", which metric system are they using?

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     Jim Goodall (jimgoodall@mstdn.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 02-May-2023 22:46:13 JST Jim Goodall

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     @vwbusguy @saramg
     Stone predates metric.
     I'm Canadian and use both imperial and metric, because I'm old enough.

     Try being in Canada and measuring distances in hours driven.
     Construction measurements are metric, but when you measure yourself, it's feet and inches.
     Shipping weight is metric, but a person's weight is pounds.
     Weather temperature is Celcius, but normal body temperature is 98.6 degrees.
     It's a bizarre mix.

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     Jonathan Frederickson (jfred@jawns.club)'s status on Tuesday, 02-May-2023 22:46:13 JST Jonathan Frederickson

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     @jimgoodall @vwbusguy @saramg
     > Try being in Canada and measuring distances in hours driven.

     We do that one in the US too

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     Jim Goodall (jimgoodall@mstdn.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 02-May-2023 22:46:14 JST Jim Goodall

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     @saramg There are only three countries in the entire world NOT using metric.

     Liberia
     Myanmar
     United States

     America is in good company.

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     Scott Williams 🐧 (vwbusguy@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 02-May-2023 23:09:55 JST Scott Williams 🐧

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     @feld @saramg @jfred @jimgoodall Where I grew up, we'd give both, like "they're got 20 minutes away, about 5 mile how the crow flies"

     (Country roads often don't take you straight to where you want to go)

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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Tuesday, 02-May-2023 23:09:55 JST feld

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     Yep, winding gravel roads... in winter... better pad the estimate quite a bit 🥶