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Time to double down on the metric system (www.cbc.ca)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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In the spirit of rapprochement with Europe and reorientation away from the United States, it's time to complete the Metrication process in Canada that was stopped prematurely by the Mulroney government.

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[-] socialjusticewizard@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

The states has this funny thing where when they do use metric, like in medicine, they often still use weird-ass nonstandard metric options, like decilitres. I imagine if they eventually switch their unit of weight is going to be something like "well, one fornoy is exactly how much a litre of crude oil weighs"

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

There is such a unit as a metric teaspoon and metric tablespoon. Used by the American medicine industry to give dosages. Actual moon landing unit tea- and tablespoons work out to something like 4.9 and 14.7mL, which are rounded to an even 5 and 15mL respectively for dosing liquid medicine. Because if you're ordinary American citizens giving your child some Dimetapp at 3 in the morning, maybe you don't have a vessel to meter out milliliters but you can probably lay your hands on your kitchen measuring spoons.