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Wow! It actually makes sense! (i.imgur.com)

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[–] Draegur@lemm.ee 107 points 2 years ago (6 children)

If the date format is not YYYY-MM-DD it can fuck right off.

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 32 points 2 years ago (2 children)

ISO 8601. Unironically the only ISO number I also remember.

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[–] Boreal@sh.itjust.works 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)

My favorite thing about this date format is using it in file names. Sorting the files by name also sorts them by date.

Meeting notes 2023-06-29.txt Meeting notes 2023-06-30.txt Meeting notes 2023-07-01.txt

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 17 points 2 years ago

I know that they use that format in daily life in Asia but to me it's the "computer format" for this exact reason.

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[–] two_wheel2@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago

Everything is right about it:

Lexographic sort
Unambiguous months and days
Acceptable on any document of record (lab, legal, medical, personal)
Readable by nearly any culture (even us Americans)

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[–] jjnjjlr@lemmy.world 58 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I can't even comprehend how dumb this image is.

[–] FlagonOfMe@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago

Doesn't that make you dumber than the image?

[–] Kush@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago

100 feet in 0.27373616263 fence posts

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[–] glarf@lemmy.world 52 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Now this is the kind of shitposting I can get behind.

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[–] quickpen@sh.itjust.works 40 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I actually agree that the metric system has nice round numbers, but this graphic is a hilarious rebuttal to the first one that just draws pictures to make their preferred system look like it fits into the pretty pictures.

Two can play at that game, lol.

[–] Poiar@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago

Eh.. The graph shows

"Inches in 8.33 feet", and those 3's will go on forever like 8.333333333333..

Its clearly meant to be a shitpost.

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[–] agitated_judge@sh.itjust.works 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fuck yeah. Because 100 being the temperature of a random woman measured during her menstrual cycle totally makes sense.

[–] norgur@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 years ago

Ey! It was the blood temperature of a horse before that, okay?! So it's not as if there were no improvements made at all! /s

[–] mcmxci@mimiclem.me 30 points 2 years ago

This is cursed. I love it

[–] Grimpen@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Thanks! I hate it.

But in all honesty, this is almost like being inside a Canadian's brain. I have to translate back and forth at work all the time, and even cooking involves converting things back and forth. I have no idea how many drams to a gallon, so I'll convert ounces to mL, then scale as necessary, and then convert back to US customary because the measuring cups and spoons are labelled in American.

[–] pancakes@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Same, as a Canadian I wish we just had everything in metric instead of 70% of things. If systems of units were money, metric would be paying with dollars and cents, while imperial is paying with sheep and bars of gold.

[–] ciapatri@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I also hate that we are loosey goosey with date formats. What day is 07/08/23??? I hate that the US uses MM/DD/YY format but at least they are consistent about it.

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[–] Murdoc@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago

If systems of units were money, metric would be paying with dollars and cents, while imperial is paying with sheep and bars of gold.

😆 I'm totally stealing this.

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[–] vixian@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 years ago

It's like we're in a weird limbo between the two. Metric for distance, except height which is in feet and inches. Grams for weight, except for human weight it's pounds (or sometimes not). Celsius for temperatures, but ovens use farenheight. Just pick one goddammit!

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[–] lynx@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I like that every bar has a different scaling.

[–] surfcocktailsynth@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It's an imperial log scale

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[–] Ixoid@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago

I love the mental gymnastics which have gone into the making of this infographic. Gold!

[–] TonyTonyChopper@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This picture gives me conniptions

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[–] ditherwither@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

Nice shitpost, op

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Don't Americans normally say "4th of July"?

[–] Grimpen@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 years ago

Only when referring to July 4th.

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[–] ubik@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 years ago

I thought this post was funny until I read the comments.

[–] fidodo 10 points 2 years ago (13 children)

I actually like fahrenheit for weather. 0 is really fucking cold, 100 is really fucking hot.

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Works for Celsius as well. 0°C is damn cold, and 100°C is damn hot weather.

[–] kingvolcano@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Swede here, 0 C is not particularly cold

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[–] Cayograco@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I have always hated this argument. If that were the case, then 50 would be the most comfortable temperature and it's not. This scale is about 20 degrees off since most everybody prefers a temperature of about 70 F.

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[–] norgur@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Well... that goes for Celsius, too :P

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[–] Aku@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

60% of the time it works every time.

[–] knobbysideup@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Base 12" is nice because it is easy to divide into halves, quarters, thirds as whole numbers. The rest is a bit of a mess though, I guess.

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