Nobody wants to spend the money to convert entire industries

There are multiple industries who prove this isn’t a blanket rule.

There’s a reason you buy soft drinks in 2 L bottles and not by quarts or whatever unit you use for that kind of size. Because of alcohol sizes, people also intuitively know 500 mL (which I believe has pretty much replaced 16 floz_us bottles) as well as 700 mL bottles for wine, etc.

There are a bunch of other examples where metric is seeping in.

I feel very sorry for US based engineers though, since many industries don’t really have the same push to convert, RIP.

I also LOVE seeing that many American social media creators have started using “grams of protein” (they still say per “serve”, instead of per 100g, which is silly, but in time they might notice that grams per 100g is a percentage and see how much more useful that is for comparison purposes).

There’s even this guy who weighs food to see which is more “justified” for the price. Eventually his viewers will know how much things weigh.

We’ll get ya, in time. In time you will be assimilated, resistance is futile ;)

Europeans

This is the the real way I know you’re American lol.

It’s the WHOLE WORLD other than you (and perhaps special mention to the UK and Canada being weirdos using multiple systems)

Have they heard of tax?

I think this deserves a chuckle at most. I visited Sydney with 2 other people, and the train was literally going within 250 metres of the hotel we booked.

Didn’t take the train because a cab worked out cheaper, absolutely ridiculous.

Public-private partnerships, not even once…

Definitely, but we can’t let this crime against humanity happen in the first place.

TIL “get fucked” is more commonly used in Australia. I thought this was international.

This person’s font setting is miniscule

I feel like most liberal democracies* have a large section of the population who think the welfare state, or UBI, is socialism. But yeah, the US seems particularly nuts on the definition of “socialism”.

* Using this term liberally (heh) - capitalism making actual democracy impossible notwithstanding.

That’s what I was thinking. In what country can a foreign country sue you in your own country?

And this is a very stupid state of affairs, in my opinion.

Fuck the crown, and the former Governor General John Kerr specifically

Recently?

Practically everyone.

If you were searching for a tutorial, it was a fantastic time saver.

The irony of having this in the middle of the article

I don’t think the UK gets to be part of the “normal units” gang with this hodgepodge they have going on

Japan, have an extremely high murder conviction rate. They do this by not labeling it a murder unless they find the murderer and enough evidence.

Press X to doubt that their false conviction rate is actually significantly lower

As a non-american: they are both right-wing parties by international standards. One of them is super-duper far right.

this was done very much on purpose, for what they consider to be a good reason

This is worse than just making a mistake

You mean, don’t let Apple give us any ideas:

Not sure if I’d count what Green did as bad, in any way.

Petty, maybe, but justice demanded grey have some social consequences for their behaviour, and green most certainly delivered.

From one socialist (me) to another (you, presumably), the lemmy.ml hate comes from:

• Conservatives who dislike socialism
• Liberals who dislike socialism
• Socialists who think Stalin and Mao were anti-democratic fuckheads, and don’t enjoy being around “socialists” who like them.

I like Lemmy, but can at the same time dislike people who like things I consider to be authoritarian, even if those people created the platform in the first place.

Viewing lemmy.ml content on ‘All-Top’ is a rather happy medium for me, still get to see some of the best memes