Everyday, as an American

Bob@midwest.social to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world – 1249 points –
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Why would you demand metric everything and not metric time?

Cause then we’d be thinking we’re monkeys on a spherical rock in a vacuum instead of calibrating clocks to a radioactive element to make sure everyone tunes in to wheel of fortune on time while this oblate spheroid tumbles around

Also, it’s hard enough getting people to equate Km and C with known quantities, Americans can’t handle base unit shifts like that

Cause then we’d be thinking we’re monkeys on a spherical rock in a vacuum instead of calibrating clocks to a radioactive element to make sure everyone tunes in to wheel of fortune on time while this oblate spheroid tumbles around

Just a little sodium chloride

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