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Americans will use anything but the metric system
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Americans will use anything but the metric system
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Alright I'm gonna say it right now
The metric system is better than the imperial system in all aspects EXCEPT ONE:
Who the fuck decided to use Celsius outside of scientific experiments? Celsius is for measuring water temperature. Fahrenheit is for measuring human temperature. This means that Celsius is only 70% accurate to humans. 70%! Yeah that's a passing grade but I'd rather have the student who excelled in Warmth Classâ„¢ figure out if I'm gonna die rather than the student who took it as an easy A class and was SORELY mistaken
Act of July 28, 1866, Public Law 39-183, 14 STAT 339, which authorized the use of the metric system of weights and measures.
Record Group 11: General Records of the United States GovernmentSeries: Enrolled Acts and Resolutions of CongressÂ
"fahrenheit is better because its built for how humans feel, like 75 degrees is 75% hot" SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!! ITS ALMOST LIKE TEMPATURE IS SUBJECTIVE!!!!!!!????? YOU ONLY KNOW WHAT 75 DEGREES KS BECAUSE YOURE USED TO FAHRENHEIT!!!! I DONT KNOW WHAT 75 DEGREES KS BECAUSE I USE CELSIUS LIKE A NORMAL HUMAN BEING!!!!!! CELSIUS IS WAY WAY BETTER BECAUSE 0 DEGREES IS FREEZING AND 100 DEGREES IS BOILING!!! MUCH MORE LOGICAL!! MAKES COOKING EASIER!! AND IT ALSO MAKES IT EASIER TO KNOW IF ITS GONNA SNOW AND FREEZE!! I HATE EVERYONE!!
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My mother recently shared her newspapers.com login with me so I could start to be more help with the family tree. I've also been logging in every evening and reading the local paper from 50 years ago that night just for S&G. The front page stories last night in 1976 were related to the Entebbe Raid and the aftermath of the Bicentennial celebrations (500 tons of refuse collected from lower Manhattan in the first few hours after the fireworks display).
But the piece that really caught my eye was about one of the educators at the county Cooperative Extension, who had just been named a member of the National Bureau of Standards' speakers bureau on metric information. She had developed an educational program on the metric system for consumers, and was available to present it to groups or individuals who wanted to get ahead of the upcoming metric conversion.
"The Pirate's Metric: Thomas Jefferson, Copper Sticks, and the Caribbean"
Every American who has ever spoken to a European has been asked the exact same, exhausting question: "Why don't you just use the metric system?"
Most people, including Americans, assume the answer is just pure, unfiltered cultural stubbornness. But the historical truth is a masterpiece of accidental consequence. The answer is pirates.
In 1793, Thomas Jefferson was serving as Secretary of State, and he actually wanted the United States to adopt the French metric system to standardize the chaotic American economy. France happily agreed and dispatched a botanist and scientist named Joseph Dombey across the Atlantic. In his hold, he carried two incredibly important pieces of copper: a rod measuring exactly one meter, and a cylinder weighing exactly one kilogram.
But the Atlantic doesn't care about politics. A massive storm blew Dombey's ship dangerously far south, straight into the Caribbean Sea. There, the ship was intercepted and boarded by British privateers—essentially state-sanctioned pirates operating with letters of marque.
Put yourself in the boots of an 18th-century privateer. You board a vessel, crack open a secured chest expecting Spanish gold, silver reals, or at least a few barrels of fine rum. Instead, you find a French scientist fiercely guarding a copper math stick and a heavy paperweight.
The privateers were entirely unimpressed. They dragged Dombey to a prison on Montserrat, where he eventually died in captivity, and they simply auctioned off the French metric system to the highest bidder along with the rest of the ship's mundane cargo.
The standardized weights never made it to Congress. And that is exactly why, over two hundred years later, 330 million Americans are still out here measuring things in freedom units.
Stay bloodthirsty, traveler.
A gallon always sounds like an absurdly large amount to my ears. If I hear someone say I bought a gallon of milk, i immediately think holy shit how much milk do you drink?? But that's like less than 4 litres of milk