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Comic strip of a ghost and a person with the American flag pasted on the head. The ghost repeats “Boo!” in the first three panels without getting any reaction, but when it in the fourth panel says “kg, cm, km, °C” the American gets scared and screams “AHHHH!!!”.

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50 points

Tax-funded health care. Making sure crazy people can’t buy machine guns. Voting for reasonable candidates.

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10 points

You forgot that only a good guy with a gun-safe filled with AR-15s can stop a bad guy with a glock

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49 points

Aaaand … DD/MM/YYYY 🫠

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68 points

YYYY-MM-DD

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this guy iso8601‘s

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10 points

rfc3339’s

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2 points

I hate ISO, their keyboards are even worse than their date

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6 points

This, FTW

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6 points

As much as I vehemently dislike US customary units, MM/DD/YYYY is the USA’s greatest notation crime.

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5 points

This one wouldn’t make sense as they say dates as month day, year.
To me, dates should always be written in international format: YYYY-MM-DD

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14 points

$ 50

Do you call this fifty dollars, or dollar fifty?

Lots of stuff is written differently, than it is spoken. In case of the date it is weird, not to go from biggest to smallest or vice versa. I guess you are used to it now, but for me it would be the same as putting seconds before minutes or inches before feet.

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Depends on context, IMO did/mm/yyyy is the most natural when writing some text, but partial ISO yyyy-mm-dd is ideal for when naming files and directories, makes lexicographical ordering follow chronological order.

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4 points

Big-endian vs little-endian all over again

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2 points

I personally prefer dd-mm-yyyy because cutting stuff of the end to get dd-mm or dd is better imho. Just an opinion tho, use what you like.

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46 points

The only properly measured thing Americans bring to their schools is 9mm’s 😔

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9 points

Categorically false. They also bring 5.56x40mm.

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Not in California though. You can own it, but you can’t buy nor shoot 5.56 or .223 on BLM or CA owned land. They’re also in the courts (appeals) to ban Assault rifles in the state.

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-6 points

Fuck California.

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5 points

.9mm mechancal pencils (.7 breaks too easy)

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2 points

I used .5mm, never had a problem with the lead breaking

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24 points

As an American, I can confidently say I’m sick of this Imperial/SAE shit.

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4 points

Length, volume and mass specifically (and derivatives, like PSI). Temperature is ok.

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30 points

As a celsius user I have absolutely no need for fahrenheit. It needs more numbers when there is no need for more precision. Half a degree C is barely even noticable.

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8 points

It’s one of those things that truly and honestly just doesn’t matter. Celsius makes more sense if you think about water freezing at 0 and boiling at 100, but beyond that it really doesn’t make a big difference.

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1 point

I use both equally well. Since both of them are base 10, no difference whatsoever. You just know the feeling of 70F or 21C.

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Same, Fahrenheit rules.

Edit: Fahrenheit kicks ass, I just love it.

Edit: Sorry, still like it a lot.

Edit: I just love the scale.

Edit: Random thought, Fahrenheit is really great. I enjoy it and will continue to use it alongside metic units.

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18 points

What really grinds my gears - literally - is having to have two sets of sockets because America. It’s really gets annoying when you lose your 10mm socket and the other one isn’t quite right, but you can’t work out is 18/32s is close enough and then you bust a nut.

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I just hate the fact if 10mm is too big, I can get 9mm, but if 15/16 is too big, fuck me, I guess. Bringing the full toolbox over because what random fucking bullshit number comes before it?

Like I’m here to fix shit, not do math to figure out which socket is one size smaller.

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2 points

Have you tried with √0,86?

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8 points

I just read that as “socks”, which made the last sentence really weird

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3 points

American cars have been using both metric and SAE fasteners since at least the 1980’s. I wish they would just gone all metric so I wouldn’t have to drag out two socket sets anytime I need to do anything.

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