Shrek as EU and Donkey as Canada. Trump lashing out on truth social when others use metric.

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[โ€“] 24 points 1 month ago (9 children)

100% metrication now!!

Also, 24h clock and yyyy-mm-dd only.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 month ago (7 children)
  • [โ€“] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    This is the official date format in Canada. Unfortunately you often see aa/bb/yyyy, and good luck figuring whether "aa" is the day and "bb" the month (British-style) or vice versa (American-style, and significantly stupider because it doesn't follow a clear endianess)

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I feel like from shortest to longest would make the most sense, wouldn't it? Especially since you don't need the year often times. American style is actually crazy.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 1 month ago*

    DD-MM-YYYY is what is most commonly used in Europe, and in my opinion it is perfectly acceptable and logical to use.

    But YYYY-MM-DD does have one major benefit that makes it extremely useful for archival purposes. When you sort it alphabetically, it also sorts correctly by date.

    You can even keep going and use YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:SS...

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 month ago

    I'd say biggest first is a more natural extension of our numbering system, like in the number 5,678 the digit on the left represent the biggest unit, of thousands. You can still omit the year without ambiguity. But it doesn't really matter as long as there is a standard way that makes sense, unlike the mess we have now.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 19 points 1 month ago

    Our ovens and stoves must use metric for less trade conflicts with Europe.

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  • [โ€“] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Even in the US, food and drink products have both imperial and metric units for serving size and quantity/weight.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 month ago

    USian here. I flip flop between the two systems depending on what I am doing. At work we use metric for temperatures and dimensional measurements except for when we measure dimensions in inches (different drawings from different engineers). In cooking, if I'm using a recipe, I use what the recipe uses. If no recipe, I cook by intuition, lol. Home carpentry or machining projects always metric. Modeling for my 3D printer, always metric. Buying weed has somehow always been both. Driving is miles, weather temps are fahrenheit.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 month ago

    The US is way more metric than MAGA want to make it look like. While Imperial units are still dominating, most people do actually know the most important SI units in some way. Reagan cost the US a fortune with silly nationalist bantering. If not for him the transition gad not stalled midway and the US had transitioned fully decades ago. Trump is making sure it stays this way.

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)
  • [โ€“] 7 points 1 month ago

    Nah, just to annoy the U.S.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    What truth social post was this?

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 1 month ago*

    No, they have to move to metric a 100% to be normal.

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