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alt textComic strip of a ghost and a person with the American flag pasted on the head. The ghost repeats "Boo!" in the first three panels without getting any reaction, but when it in the fourth panel says "kg, cm, km, °C" the American gets scared and screams "AHHHH!!!".

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[-] HunterBidensLapDog@infosec.pub 50 points 2 years ago

Tax-funded health care. Making sure crazy people can't buy machine guns. Voting for reasonable candidates.

[-] twei@feddit.de 10 points 2 years ago

You forgot that only a good guy with a gun-safe filled with AR-15s can stop a bad guy with a glock

[-] santiagopim@lemmy.nz 47 points 2 years ago

Aaaand ... DD/MM/YYYY 🫠

[-] magmaus3@szmer.info 68 points 2 years ago
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[-] Knusper@feddit.de 10 points 2 years ago
[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago
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[-] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

As much as I vehemently dislike US customary units, MM/DD/YYYY is the USA's greatest notation crime.

[-] RushingSquirrel@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

This one wouldn't make sense as they say dates as month day, year.
To me, dates should always be written in international format: YYYY-MM-DD

[-] neumast@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

$ 50

Do you call this fifty dollars, or dollar fifty?

Lots of stuff is written differently, than it is spoken. In case of the date it is weird, not to go from biggest to smallest or vice versa. I guess you are used to it now, but for me it would be the same as putting seconds before minutes or inches before feet.

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[-] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 46 points 2 years ago

The only properly measured thing Americans bring to their schools is 9mm's 😔

[-] ultracritical@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Categorically false. They also bring 5.56x40mm.

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[-] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago

.9mm mechancal pencils (.7 breaks too easy)

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[-] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago

As an American, I can confidently say I'm sick of this Imperial/SAE shit.

[-] MxM111@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Length, volume and mass specifically (and derivatives, like PSI). Temperature is ok.

[-] Omgarm@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago

As a celsius user I have absolutely no need for fahrenheit. It needs more numbers when there is no need for more precision. Half a degree C is barely even noticable.

[-] KrankyKong@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

It's one of those things that truly and honestly just doesn't matter. Celsius makes more sense if you think about water freezing at 0 and boiling at 100, but beyond that it really doesn't make a big difference.

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What really grinds my gears - literally - is having to have two sets of sockets because America. It's really gets annoying when you lose your 10mm socket and the other one isn't quite right, but you can't work out is 18/32s is close enough and then you bust a nut.

[-] Polar@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I just hate the fact if 10mm is too big, I can get 9mm, but if 15/16 is too big, fuck me, I guess. Bringing the full toolbox over because what random fucking bullshit number comes before it?

Like I'm here to fix shit, not do math to figure out which socket is one size smaller.

[-] twei@feddit.de 8 points 2 years ago

I just read that as "socks", which made the last sentence really weird

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

You know what pissed me off earlier this year? We took a trip from the U.S. to Canada and my Prius didn't even have the option to show kmph instead of mph on the dashboard. We looked through the manual, we looked online. My specific model doesn't allow it. Why?!

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[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

World work better with "socialism." Because screw capitalism.

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Or gun control. Or free healthcare. Or abortion. Or a free online automated tax return system.

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago

or public transport, ending the war on drugs, LGBTQ+ rights, fixing climate change, eating less meat, funding education, non-predatory student loans, living wage, affordable homes, ending slavery in prisons, ending corporations as people, ending super PACs and lobbying, and establishing ranked choice voting or even basic democratic concepts as one-man-one-vote.

[-] rgb3x3@beehaw.org 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Except in drug deals (kg), foot races (5km), and science (°C).

[-] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 years ago

And school supplies (9mm)

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[-] errer@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

America is totally used to the KKK

[-] shath@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

@burgers if metric sucks so bad why do you use it for your guns

[-] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

oooh, shots fired

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[-] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago

Arma players are more at home with km than miles because they never leave the basement to use it irl

(jk I am that guy)

[-] shath@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

me to imperial measurements: i am going to kill you

[-] MxM111@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Fuck, you scared me!

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