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   iko (iko@sfba.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 15:46:20 JST iko

   "Changing to the metric system is hard and would confuse people."

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 21-Sep-2023 19:18:41 JST clacke

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     I gave everyone else a day, but it seems it's on me to post the ultimate version of the imperial units alchemy tree of life chart.
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     iko (iko@sfba.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Sep-2023 19:18:42 JST iko

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     Fun fact: if you draw this out in salt, you summon and bind a minor demon of fractions. They're useful for converting measurements, but occasionally divide by zero and the resulting undefined state eats the universe for a bit until it sorts itself out.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 21-Sep-2023 19:18:43 JST clacke

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     Unable so far to find the @frogchildren source.

     farside.link/teddit/r/memes/co… is one intermediate source in better quality than my upload.

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     Model Maker Ville (modelmakerville@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Sep-2023 22:13:37 JST Model Maker Ville

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     @iko

     Imperial units are stupid.

     In the early 1980s I worked as a software developer for a weighing equipment company that supplied machines to small shops, supermarkets etc.

     The calculations were nuts for imperial units. Luckily the UK money by then was decimal.
     But even multiplying imperial weights by decimal money was complex coding.
     Would have been worse if the money had still been pounds shillings and pence.

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 22-Sep-2023 22:17:53 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @clacke @iko Heh, reddit comments also seem to say that the chart doesn't works. (Can't confirm/deny, I exclusively use metric)
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     Ross of Ottawa (ottaross@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 01:26:46 JST Ross of Ottawa

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     • Petra van Cronenburg

     @NatureMC @iko Yes! made a similar comment too - glad to see yours here too.

     Cups and spoons are just things we have handy, and still allow us to fully use metric along side them.

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     Petra van Cronenburg (naturemc@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 01:26:47 JST Petra van Cronenburg

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     @iko Fun fact: In the metric system, we cook with tea- and tablespoons, too, but they have a different size. 😂 Greetings from France!

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 01:26:47 JST clacke

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     • Ross of Ottawa

     @ottaross @iko I would be very surprised if the US cup, tablespoon and teaspoon represent the same volumes as Canada's metric cups, tablespoons and teaspoons.

     In the Swedish kitchen a tablespoon is 15 ml and a teaspoon is 5 ml, is that what Canada uses too?

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     Ross of Ottawa (ottaross@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 01:26:48 JST Ross of Ottawa

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     @iko I like to point out that in the battle between Imperial and metric, cups and spoons are neutral.

     As a Canadian I've long ago dropped gallons, quarts, pints and ounces (fluid and weight - WTF was that?), but still embrace cups and spoons along with my grams and milliliters.

     Cups and spoons are neutral, object-oriented and coexist nicely with the sanity of metric. One cup as 250ml is key info.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 01:26:55 JST clacke

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     @NatureMC Are the 250 ml cup, 15 ml tablespoon and 5 ml teaspoon accurate numbers for the French measurements too?
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     Petra van Cronenburg (naturemc@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 23:05:58 JST Petra van Cronenburg

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     @clacke Someone should write a cultural history about cups around the globe!

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 23:05:59 JST clacke

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     @NatureMC Sweden has coffee spoons and tea spoons. The coffee spoon is smaller. 😃

     Only the tea spoon is a standard measure.

     I'm not so sure about the Swedish cup. I think most people would say it's 200 ml, not 250 ml, but recipes generally don't use cups, they use dl.

     I think there is also a difference between the tea cup and coffee cup measures, where a coffee cup might be 150 ml. 😃

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     Petra van Cronenburg (naturemc@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 23:06:00 JST Petra van Cronenburg

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     @clacke In France, old recipes still measure in cl = centilitre. 1 cl = 10 ml. But Millilitre/litre are the norm today. Besides that, we have approximate (!) measurements varying to your kitchen equipment: 1 tablespoon, 1 coffeespoon (like in Germany we prefer coffee) or a pinch. As Ross says, it's simply object-oriented (the size of a pinch varies with the size of your fingers) and means: A very tiny amount = pinch, more than a pinch = small spoon, less than a handful = tablespoon. No norms.

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     Zach Fine (zachnfine@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Nov-2023 06:17:10 JST Zach Fine

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     @clacke The line from 1 teaspoon to 1/3 of a cup (?) is breaking my brain.

     Love the image though.

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