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Now do the same with US customary units. Let's see what their hourglass looks like 🫠

It's the negative space between two soapy titties.

That's because of sleep deprivation!

repress your depression!

Hecto used to be popular in sweden until like 2000 or so, when it came to food. Especially candy and charcuterie were priced and ordered in "hekto" (the "gram" dropped in speech).

In Hungary "dekagram" is the default unit when buying food from actual humans at a deli counter or market. Asking for 30 deka of cheese sounds like a more human-scale number than asking for 300 grams.

Though it's interesting that hecto would be even better for this, as we always use deka in 10s (or at least 5s), so we could just ask for 3 hectograms of cheese for an even more human-scale number :)

Hecto is very used in Italy with food "I'd like 3 hectos of ham, sir"

Deka is too small to be useful tbh, maybe it's used with medicines or drugs?

She’ll go 300 hectares on a single tank of kersone!

Last night was so hot, my ac took three sparks per witchburn!

lmaooooooo

I'm not 100% sure on the accuracy of this data, but if ever there was a place to paste this information, it is here.

Average Tiddy weight per boob by cup size, in Metric and Lemmy scales

A cup = 0.454kg = 1.1 Tins of Heinz Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce

B cup = 0.78kg =1.9 Tins of Heinz Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce

C cup = 1.023kg = 2.4 Tins of Heinz Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce

D cup = 1.388kg = 3.3 Tins of Heinz Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce

E cup = 1.950kg = 4.6 Tins of Heinz Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce

F cup = 2.35kg = 5.6 Tins of Heinz Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce

[Edit] I'm not sure if this is per boob, or per pair of boobs. More research required.

Omg we've been cursed by big tiddy

Is. It. SOAPY?

Came here for the "acshully"

Stayed for the learning.

We use deci for drinks all the time

It's... .°˖✧Exotic✧˖°.

Frau Schmidt sprechen sie metrisch mit mir. Ich bin eine schmutzig Amerikanerin

Also: —

• zepto (symbol z): 10⁻²¹ (one sextillionth)

• yocto (symbol y): 10⁻²⁴ (one septillionth)

• ronto (symbol r): 10⁻²⁷ (one octillionth)

• quecto (symbol q): 10⁻³⁰ (one nonillionth)

But they do know litres, because the big soft drink bottles are sold in litres. They know grams if they do drugs or bake. They know prefixes like Mega, Giga and Tera if they are into computers, and they know about "kilo" if they pay an electrical bill. If they're into military stuff, they know about "clicks", which are actually... kilometers.

I think it's slowly creeping in.

"The story of the metric system starts, somewhat unexpectedly, in 17th Century England, with the proposal by the natural philosopher John Wilkins for a consistently decimal system of units. The Europe of his time was divided by the use of innumerable different systems of measure, with each country using its own traditional units (and in many cases, a lack of even national standardisation meant that different regions within countries would use their own measures). To remedy this, Wilkins conceived of a single, rational standard, based on the best science of his time, which all nations could equally share. His idea for a “universal Measure” was not adopted in his era, although that very phrase would ultimately (via Greek translation) give us the name of the metre."!

Normalize it. Use meters and kilograms on your own even before legislation. Convince others to use it. Push back the storm. If a handful of people in your town use it then it goes from something that nobody uses to a thing that a few people (and the rest of the world) use. Be the change you want to see.

the average American doesn’t know a meter from a hole in their ass

Do they actually know yards? A metre is pretty close to one yard. If you know yard, you know the metre.

Was she 10-¹⁵th on a hotness scale?

Us surveyors use it every day!

A miles is a furlong squared.

A yard is almost the same as a metre. That one's easy :)

x2

A mile is a 1000 paces walked, counting only one foot in most places. Different countries take different steps so a mile is different in each country. Somewhere between 1.5 and 2 kilometer is the most common.

A yard is almost one meter, so I'll allow it.

It makes sense for a system where you want to easily divide quantities and only can work with the fingers on one hand.

It's pretty much the least used SI prefix. Apparently used somewhat frequently in central Europe for "decagrams" (10s of grams)

Dekagram of cocaine

Decimeter is used often enough.

All of these can be used with any measure, and that's the point.

Decagram is used in centeal europe for cooking and groceries, but otherwise probably unused.

A kilometer is
0.000,000,000,000,001 Exameters
0.000,000,000,001 Petameters
0.000,000,001 Terameters
0.000,001 Gigameters
0.001 Megameters
1 Kilometer
10 Hectometer
100 Dekameter
1,000 Meter
10,000 Decimeter
100,000 Centimeter
1,000,000 Millimeter
1,000,000,000 Micrometer
1,000,000,000,000 Nanometer
1,000,000,000,000,000 Picometer
1,000,000,000,000,000,000 Femtometer
or
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Attometer

Or just 380 ML (Megalitres).

The brief moment of confusion when you hit something using deci- or hecto- and you briefly have to convert to one of the common prefixes is always a little aggravating...

Thou.

Mils and Thous are at least decimal, so that's part of the battle right there...

how else are we gonna measure our dangles?

That's the tera tera. Terra terror or Terra tearer, or a trillion terajoules.

Is it not centa? Always thought it was like deci and deca.