metric ruleairportline@lemmy.ml to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone – 528 points – 9 months ago60Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsShow the parent commentWhat have we done to deserve this?Nothing, you don't need to do anything particularly good to deserve the metric system. It is given free of charge to all people!But I love having to add fractions with different denominators and getting it wrong!That's okay, youl still have time for that. 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.Metric system (cavalry charge included)Kept breaking things by using us customary for the most partI'm just wondering what we did to deserve the inch becoming 25.4mm instead of just 25 XD5cm ≈ 2 inches up to about a foot.1 more...1 more...
What have we done to deserve this?Nothing, you don't need to do anything particularly good to deserve the metric system. It is given free of charge to all people!But I love having to add fractions with different denominators and getting it wrong!That's okay, youl still have time for that. 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.Metric system (cavalry charge included)Kept breaking things by using us customary for the most partI'm just wondering what we did to deserve the inch becoming 25.4mm instead of just 25 XD5cm ≈ 2 inches up to about a foot.1 more...1 more...
Nothing, you don't need to do anything particularly good to deserve the metric system. It is given free of charge to all people!But I love having to add fractions with different denominators and getting it wrong!That's okay, youl still have time for that. 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.Metric system (cavalry charge included)
But I love having to add fractions with different denominators and getting it wrong!That's okay, youl still have time for that.
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.Metric system (cavalry charge included)
I'm just wondering what we did to deserve the inch becoming 25.4mm instead of just 25 XD5cm ≈ 2 inches up to about a foot.1 more...
What have we done to deserve this?
Nothing, you don't need to do anything particularly good to deserve the metric system. It is given free of charge to all people!
But I love having to add fractions with different denominators and getting it wrong!
That's okay, youl still have time for that.
As a French dude knowing about another small petty French dude named Napoleon, I wouldn't say it was always given free of charge.
Metric system (cavalry charge included)
Kept breaking things by using us customary for the most part
I'm just wondering what we did to deserve the inch becoming 25.4mm instead of just 25 XD
5cm ≈ 2 inches up to about a foot.