Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫💀 @alyx@gameliberty.club

@Corfiot @cassidyclown @beardalaxy
I wouldn't dislike imperial as much as I do if the conversions between imperial units actually made sense. All I know is that 1 foot=12 inches. 1 yard=3 feet. But I'm completely clueless how many feet or yards you need for a mile. And don't get me started on subdivisions to an inch.

Everything being 10x the smaller unit is the single most powerful feature of the metric system.

@Corfiot @cassidyclown @beardalaxy
It's funny that deci doesn't get used, but deca does. Or at least in my country. We usually use decaliters to measure larger quantities of alcoholic drinks, such as wine, or our version of moonshine.

@beardalaxy
>better
Meh... I've looked at some of it once, and I found it retarded. They have multiple "spoon" sizes. Like a lot of them... And everything bigger gets measured in "cup" sizes, which is especially stupid, cause a "cup" isn't just an ordinary cup. It's a standard, that is some amount of oz/milliliters. So you'll have recipes asking for 1 and a quarter cup of flour, instead of giving you a weight or volume, so you can just put it on the scale all at once. So you can't just use your ordinary household cup, unless you manually verified it matches the standard, but then you have to guesstimate the quarter of a cup. So I'm guessing Americans have to buy a measuring cup, which is not a problem cause it's cheap. But that's exactly what we also use anyway. So you basically throw away any usefulness of using "cup" as a unit.

At least the US has some standards on this I guess. I'm not aware of Romania having an official measuring standard for cooking, but at least any recipe I've come across, just says "1kg of flour", or "200 grams of butter", and they're very easy to measure.

@beardalaxy @cassidyclown
>there's not really anything in between cm and meters
>sure there is decimeter

... you answered your own problem, so not sure what to say. Just because most people don't use it, doesn't mean you can't. That's the beauty of metric, and why it's used in science and engineering, it's flexible enough to use whatever fits you best, and transformations are easy to do if they are needed at any time.

Meanwhile, how does 12 inches=1 foot make sense? How exactly is it easy to convert inches in feet when you're dealing with random numbers. Can you convert 587 inches in feet in a split second, without using a calculator, or pen & paper?

>for measuring height, even though it isn't as precise, i still think feet+inches is better
For a person's height? Maybe... but it still sucks balls. My precise measurement would be 6 feet, 3 and a half inches. Which sucks to say or type. So I actually round up my height when talking to Burgerland people to make it easier on myself.
And if you're thinking about measuring tall buildings instead, you come back to meters being a better unit. 500 meters is more manageable than ~1600 feet. I guess you can use yards, but I never heard anyone use yards for height. Even airplanes measure in feet above ground.

P.S. Also, how many feet are there in a mile?

@immychan
I hate things like this so fucking much... different clothes, wearing pink, or liking dolls DOESN'T make you trans, non-binary, gender spectrumed or whatever other trendy word people want to invent next. Wear whatever you want to wear and stop being stupid about it.

@Awoo
It's one of those features that even when you know about it, you're unlikely to use it often and might eventually forget about it entirely.

@beardalaxy
US cooking measurements are a whole different can of worms that I have no clue on.

@cassidyclown
>sounds less like bullshit when guessing distances
Only if you're measuring things in feet. And it sounds as useful as measuring in banana length, cause I don't know about you, but my feet aren't exactly 1 foot long.
Also, if you want to guesstimate a meter, you usually measure by making a big step.

I can appreciate the "poetic" part, if you're nostalgic about the British Empire.

@Kaitsusen @RUSHIFA
Kinda what I was thinking a bit. Candy Crush and Angry Birds used to spread like wildfire through word of mouth. Don't remember them needing advertisements back then.

The fact that americans need YouTube videos to explain this to them is just... sad, painful, demoralizing, pathetic, and cringe.

@Awoo
Only on the outside. We're definitely dead inside.

@RUSHIFA
Do people still play Candy Crush? It's over a decade old at this point, isn't it?

@Terry
Is this a joke?

@mushroom_soup @Awoo @LovecraftEnthusiast
Mushroom is a futa, confirmed.

@thor
Holly shit... that's one hell of a troll. You deserve a prize for this one.

@eee
Is that a sex doll, or the grandson?

Ok, you know the drill. Hands up everyone who this applies to.

@nosleep
What's one more watchlist?

NFT: non-fungible turds

I have no idea why it took me so long to think of that. I'm sure someone else, somewhere, has already said it, and I never saw it.