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metric rule (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by airportline@lemmy.ml to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[–] airportline@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What have we done to deserve this?

[–] Turun@feddit.de 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nothing, you don't need to do anything particularly good to deserve the metric system. It is given free of charge to all people!

[–] airportline@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

But I love having to add fractions with different denominators and getting it wrong!

[–] Andonno@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

That's okay, youl still have time for that.

[–] joneskind@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is given free of charge to all people!

As a French dude knowing about another small petty French dude named Napoleon, I wouldn't say it was always given free of charge.

[–] Turun@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

Metric system (cavalry charge included)

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Kept breaking things by using us customary for the most part

[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm just wondering what we did to deserve the inch becoming 25.4mm instead of just 25 XD

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

5cm ≈ 2 inches up to about a foot.