I'm an American, WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETER!?
this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2026
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Why is 1 unit of volume 1000 units of weight?
As in, 1 litre of water is 1 kilogram. 1 gram of water is 1 millilitre.
Why couldn't 1 gram be 1 litre?
edit: a better way to phrase this question is as @sc00ter@lemmy.zip put it:
The question wasnt about water specifically. Theyre trying to ask why does 1e3 mass = 1e0 volume and/or 1e0 mass = 1e-3 volume. Why doesnt 1e0 mass = 1e0 volume
It's like the reason 0 is freezing water temp and 100 is boiling water.
They used water as a standard when deciding what things ought to mean.
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No one needs SI units. Measuring in dicks or handegg fields FtW111!1oneOne!!
.000000000000001 is clearly the most evil measurement.
Missed some fun ones
- quetta Q 10^30 nonillion
- ronna R 10^27 octillion
- yotta Y 10^24 septillion
- zetta Z 10^21 sextillion.
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)
Deka and Hecto really didnt stand a chance
I mean, milk, beer and wine are measured in hectolitres. Oh, and oil for heating, I believe.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that just the scale? It's not the metric system, there's no meters in here, this could be used for bytes of data: gigabytes, terabytes...
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american here, enjoy your report and permanent ban buddy, youve just crossed the line big time
king henry died drinking chocolate milk
Why not both? It is time for the exatiddy
Because you end up with the mess us Brits have. And no one wants the mess we have.
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I have to say, "da" is a bad prefix. Good thing nobody uses it.
I changed my car to metric.
When I returned to pick up my car after dropping it off for a smog check, the tech hadn’t done it. He noticed the odometer was in kilometers and putting that “mileage” in the system would have caused havoc on the car’s history (mileage seeming to go up and down is a red flag).
As annoying as that was, it would have been far worse if he’d just entered the kilometers as miles.
Which is to say that switching now is more than just putting up new speed limit signs.
I use metric daily as an engineer, but in my personal life I find some metric measurements pretty silly. Celsius and L/100km are not useful or show it’s not a great system for everyday use.
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Not so sure about that, buddy...
If faced with the choice of giving up the metric system forever or giving up tiddies forever, I know which one I'd choose. I can get used to a new system of measurements, but without tiddies to measure, what's even the point?
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