this post was submitted on 06 Jan 2024
267 points (100.0% liked)
196
17278 readers
1946 users here now
Be sure to follow the rule before you head out.
Rule: You must post before you leave.
Other rules
Behavior rules:
- No bigotry (transphobia, racism, etc…)
- No genocide denial
- No support for authoritarian behaviour (incl. Tankies)
- No namecalling
- Accounts from lemmygrad.ml, threads.net, or hexbear.net are held to higher standards
- Other things seen as cleary bad
Posting rules:
- No AI generated content (DALL-E etc…)
- No advertisements
- No gore / violence
- Mutual aid posts require verification from the mods first
NSFW: NSFW content is permitted but it must be tagged and have content warnings. Anything that doesn't adhere to this will be removed. Content warnings should be added like: [penis], [explicit description of sex]. Non-sexualized breasts of any gender are not considered inappropriate and therefore do not need to be blurred/tagged.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact us on our matrix channel or email.
Other 196's:
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
As the old saying goes, "Europeans think 100 miles is a long way, Americans think 100 years is a long time."
Europeans don't know what 100 miles is.
That's a common misconception. Europeans hate standard measurements, but they aren't dumb. They can do conversions.
fair enough but we don't really have a feel for how far a mile is without converting it to kilometres first
We don't have to, because we don't live in the 3 countries that use them.
we live on the internet that uses it a lot though
It's nice to have some quick mental conversions ready.
1 mile is roughly 1.6 km, so 100 miles is roughly 160 km
3 feet is roughly a meter
2 pounds are roughly 1 kg
1 gallon is roughly 4 liters
32 fahrenheit it 0 celcius, 100 fahrenheit is slightly over body temperature, 200 fahrenheit is almost enough to boil water... Any other value requires math to figure out...
-40° requires no math. Too cold to do math at that temp anyway.
And dogs don't know how long a human year is in dog years