• letsgo@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Why would you demand metric everything and not metric time?

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      5 months ago

      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

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        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