I do wish we metric places (or at least Canada) were more flexible and familiar with the whole system. Sure we have milliliters and centimeters and kilograms, but people say things all the time like 2000km or 2 million kgs, or even things like 25000mAh. And I get it, people get into a frame of reference and want to stay there, but I wish people had the agility and practice to say 2 megameters, 2 gigagrams, and, well 25 amp hours, and still be understood. That last one's not hard, but packaging still seems to be stupid about it.

It's the only system, the imperial "system" is just some shenanigans on top of metric

Put this on the Ronald Reagan did it pile. Jimmy Carter started us on the path to metric and then Reagan halted it.

Trans girl I use to know called herself femto. I assumed it was because of her foot fetish but maybe it was related to the metric system.

Metric is officially recognized across the US. European minds cannot comprehend this.

As a member of c/sciencememes, you have my sword! (Or, at least my upvote!)

While we're on the subject, can we please kill off "kilowatt hours". Fuckers, those are Joules, 3.6 Megajoules specifically.

DAd Heard Karl Marx Gave The Proletariat Eleven Zeppelins Yo

No yotta-? How do you describe the number of joulles it takes to blow up a planet?

Wait, no, please convince my countryfolk to metricate. I'm an engineer and desperately want to be able to design things in metric. It's so much better but the average American doesn't know a meter from a hole in their ass

The hangup in the US for a lot of it is the people who would keep trying to convert back into English units instead of just riding with it. Especially silly when it doesn’t change anything.

Look at that hourglass figure

Fun coincidence that I was working on making a graph (network) of the relationships between different units yesterday. Here is how it looks in a circle, yellow dots are lengths, mass red and time blue.

It's not perfect on the phone, but here is the link, press the "Refresh All" button to load the network and run the code.

https://nadi-system.github.io/playground.html?example=units

Context: I'm writing a programming language to analyze graphs, so I thought "units are graph relationships, let me see what I can do". It was fun, but also funny because so many relationships are not simple factor multiplications. The network was extracted from the data gnu units uses, but I did it halfhazardly, so it's not perfect.

You can play around with the code if you wanna try your own things, there's user documentation and more examples. The actual network can be viewed using the buttons on the left of the editor.

Metric haters when they realize their electricity is measured in Volts (metric unit), not in "relatable" units like Sparks:

I want to upvote metric, but downvote "tiddies". 😡

The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it.

usa kicked the Brits out of the usa back in the day but they stole and kept their system of measurements (and of course adapted them over time, like americans do). They avoid the metric system by a country kilometer.

Dat hourglass figure

I've only ever encountered decaliters in Dune, where there's the awkward phrase "38 million decaliters" instead of "380 million liters". It's probably because Frank Herbert was initially thinking in gallons, and it got changed later.

Did you know that Americans use Milli-inches?

Pour one out for the deci, even autocorrect attempted to remove it from my message.

I think I can see a tiddy or two in that number curve