I’m sad that I missed posting this on the 4th

  • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    Liter? Americans aren’t even consistent with their weird systems of measurements. Why is it not marked as 568.3844 fl oz? Or 0.244 football fields or 38.38383 yards or smth

    • ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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      14 hours ago

      We had a big push to try to adopt metric for a bit. It stalled out for various reasons, but it ended with metric units being required on food and stuff, metric being the official system of the government, and new things introduced in that period being referred to in metric.
      So beverages come in 8, 12, 16, and 20oz, 1 liter, 2 liter, and gallon.

      We also print both units on just about everything.

    • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
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      America labels things in freedom and metric. What doesn’t make sense to be is using volume and not weight.