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How to measure things like a Canadian (lemmy.ml)

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[–] observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

This is not funny, it's a fucking problem. I'm a metric purist and have an unreasonable negative emotional response when others are not.

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[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

American, can you quantity your negative emotions in a 4 point precision float of 9/11s so I can follow along?

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

I'm an American, I'm comfortable working in metric and normal.

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[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 1 point 2 months ago

Shhh, don't let them know that we use it for food packaging and drugs.

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