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[–] 51 points 9 months ago (22 children)

I'm confused and probably stupid, but...should the guy not be crawling 100 meters versus 1 km (1,000 meters)? What part of my brain has damage from being dropped as a child?

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  • [–] [S] 46 points 9 months ago (11 children)

    Yeah, it's just a shitpost with layers of irony and edits to the intended joke.

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    I'm.... Not really getting it

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  • [–] [S] 23 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    It's an anti-joke playing on expectations. Like, you expect the joke to be that the guy is crawling the wrong way, or to be making fun of Americans not using the metric system, but it's been edited so that neither of those fit.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    I think the m is supposed to stand for miles. I guess the sign is in a desert between usa and canada

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Wait that's the joke??? I've never seen "m" used for miles lol.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    What does "mph" mean to you?

    British road signs will mark that a junction is "1m" away meaning "1 mile" (to distinguish it from other contexts where it might say "300 yards")

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  • [–] 90 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    100 m = 100 meters = 0.1 kilometers. Miles is abbreviated mi, as in 100 mi. I'm disappointed in you, The Picard Maneuver. Your jokes, shitposts, and memes are usually so much better than this. Are you ok?

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  • [–] [S] 68 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Thank you, lol. I didn't make this one, but in its defense, I read it as an anti-joke shitpost. I believe it's intentional.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

    anti-what? Is that like a negation on an actual joke that turns it into a non-joke but you can still read off the joke from its remnants?

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  • [–] 30 points 9 months ago

    He's going so fast, he took the optimal racing line, this American is truly a professional racist.

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  • [–] 156 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    The abbreviation for miles is 'mi', 'm' is meters so apparently the American here is smarter than you OP.

    SMH

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  • [–] 66 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Given that it's a shitpost I think the seeming incongruity is deliberate.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I'm so frustrated and confused

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    100 m of water is more than 1 km of water

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children)

    Took a minute to understand the 'm' means 'miles' not meters.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Thank you. I was looking at it thinking, "but 100m is only 10% of the other distance".

    BTW for any curious non-muricans, miles is abbreviated "mi" so it doesn't get confused with meters. The only slight exception is when you are dealing with transportation, where none of the units are abbreviated properly:

    • miles per hour = "mph" (should be mi/hr)
    • miles per gallon = "mpg" (should be mi/gal)
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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

    To be fair, km/h is kph in this context. 

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago

    I'm convinced that the majority of whinging about metric in the US is actually coming from old machine operators tucked away somewhere in the industrial sector who don't want to give up their old decimal inch Bridgeports and Shipleys, or have bosses who wouldn't buy them new machines anyway. Everything else stems from there, bubbling on up through the pipes as it does.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Huh? In my electical engineering studies almost everything is in metric. Are you thinking of certain holdover generations?

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I'm a civil engineer in the US, and can confirm that my industry uses US Customary units. I have some mechanical engineer friends, and most also use US Customary units, with certain exceptions. While in school, the intro classes I took used metric more often than not because it allowed for easier understanding of the source material. By the 3rd year, classes started employing more examples and problems in US Customary units. By year 4, it was almost exclusively US Customary units.

    Forgive my lack of understanding here, but for electrical engineering, what are the alternatives to metric units? I know BTUs can be used instead of Joules, hp can be used instead of Watts, and AWG can be used instead of... Whatever the metric measurement is. BTUs and hp seem to be mainly used for specific industries and consumer products (let's be honest nobody likes them anyway). AWG is used because that's the standard that commonly available wires in the US are measured to.

    Temperature and length are obvious. More specifically, I am thinking of volts, amps, and ohms (my understanding caps out at what I learned in my physics classes).

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I don't believe there are any (unless you count length and mass measurements for physical component layouts). Perhaps it's a byproduct of the field having international standardization for units from the outset.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    I think you're right about the international standardization. Also, I think another important factor is that the average American has a concept of how long a foot is, how hot 70°F is, how much a pound weighs, etc. These are easily to visualize because these measurements are used in everyday life outside of engineering applications. Most people don't have a concept of the units we use to measure the invisible magic force in our walls.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago

    That’s 1/10th of a kilomile

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    I don't get it : 100 meters is closer than 1000... 👀

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago

    Excellent shitpost, I believe that's what it's called.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    I can't find the original, but the old but classic image of this is something like this:

    Hence the play on expectations in OP's meme.

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    [–] -1 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    6 month old Fake account posting slop. Good job Lemmy. You have become the enemy

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