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🇺🇦🇪🇺 cweickhmann<p>You know what YouTube could do instead of unnerving everyone with soulless "AI" audio if they weren't evil?<br>You know it!<br>Exactly!<br>Automatically convert everything to <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/metric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metric</span></a>. Heck, for that I'd even live with soullessness.</p>
Aho<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@benroyce" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>benroyce</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cuauhtemoc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cuauhtemoc</span></a> crew: how much is the clearance under the bridge?<br>the coast guard: 127<br>Cuauhtemoc crew: that is great, our mast is just 49 over water level.</p><p>Someone has to abandon the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/imperial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>imperial</span></a> system and join the rest of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/metric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metric</span></a> world.</p>
acemaxx<p><a href="https://econtwitter.net/tags/doodle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>doodle</span></a> of the day<br><a href="https://econtwitter.net/tags/peak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>peak</span></a> <a href="https://econtwitter.net/tags/uncertainty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uncertainty</span></a> is more of a descriptive concept than a precisely defined <a href="https://econtwitter.net/tags/metric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metric</span></a> in most contexts. Its reliability depends on.</p>
Fox<p>One bolt, the size of 1/2158th of a standard double-door fridge’s width.<br>That makes total sense, doesn’t it? Apparently, for one nation it does and some other small country on this boulder we live on. So I needed a small mounting bolt for my, american made, weapon. Silly me assumed that this was standard thread that everyone is using, but no. Eventually, after a lot of measuring…<br>---<br><a href="https://3xn.nl/projects/2025/05/11/one-bolt-the-size-of-1-2158th-of-a-standard-double-door-fridges-width/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">3xn.nl/projects/2025/05/11/one</span><span class="invisible">-bolt-the-size-of-1-2158th-of-a-standard-double-door-fridges-width/</span></a><br>---<br><a href="https://cytag.nl/tags/bolt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bolt</span></a> <a href="https://cytag.nl/tags/imperial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>imperial</span></a> <a href="https://cytag.nl/tags/metric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metric</span></a> <a href="https://cytag.nl/tags/ppi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ppi</span></a> <a href="https://cytag.nl/tags/ppm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ppm</span></a> <a href="https://cytag.nl/tags/sizes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sizes</span></a> <a href="https://cytag.nl/tags/tpi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tpi</span></a></p>
Sozialwelten<p>Im <a href="https://ifwo.eu/tags/vereinigt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vereinigt</span></a>​en <a href="https://ifwo.eu/tags/K%C3%B6nigreich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Königreich</span></a> würden <a href="https://ifwo.eu/tags/DatenCenter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DatenCenter</span></a> <a href="https://ifwo.eu/tags/offiziell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>offiziell</span></a> 0,79% der <a href="https://ifwo.eu/tags/Energie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Energie</span></a> <a href="https://ifwo.eu/tags/verbrauch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>verbrauch</span></a>​en, wobei die <a href="https://ifwo.eu/tags/eigentlich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eigentlich</span></a>​e <a href="https://ifwo.eu/tags/Zahl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zahl</span></a> eher 12% sein dürfte. Eine ähnliche <a href="https://ifwo.eu/tags/Diskrepanz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Diskrepanz</span></a> gelte für <a href="https://ifwo.eu/tags/global" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>global</span></a>​e <a href="https://ifwo.eu/tags/Zahl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zahl</span></a>​en. </p><p>Melissa <a href="https://ifwo.eu/tags/Cogavin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cogavin</span></a> - <a href="https://ifwo.eu/tags/DataCentres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataCentres</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://ifwo.eu/tags/Sustainability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sustainability</span></a> in 2024<br><a href="https://ifwo.eu/tags/Broadband" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Broadband</span></a> <a href="https://ifwo.eu/tags/Journal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Journal</span></a> of the <a href="https://ifwo.eu/tags/SCTE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCTE</span></a> Vol. 46 No. 2 May 2024, S. 17</p><p><a href="https://ifwo.eu/tags/DataCenter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataCenter</span></a> <a href="https://ifwo.eu/tags/Energieverbrauch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Energieverbrauch</span></a> <a href="https://ifwo.eu/tags/Metric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Metric</span></a> <a href="https://ifwo.eu/tags/Zahlen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zahlen</span></a></p>
Allpoints<p>non-american English speakers, what word do you use instead of "mileage" in the following contexts?</p><p>It's used two ways here:<br>1) Gas (petrol) consumption.<br>"What kind of mileage does it get?" is asking about fuel efficiency, i.e."miles / gallon"</p><p>2) Distance on the odometer. "What's the car's mileage?" is asking what the odometer reading is.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>English</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Metric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Metric</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Language</span></a></p>
Alarmingly Bad<p>My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead, and that’s the way I like it!</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/comic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>comic</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/webcomic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webcomic</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/metric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metric</span></a></p>
ekari<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://masto.ai/@napocornejo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>napocornejo</span></a></span> Yes, come all you brainiacs! We speak <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/metric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metric</span></a> by default here 😎</p>
J. Steven York RESISTS<p>US hardware standards are INSANE.<br>Working on a prop for my action-figure photo comic, "Minions at Work," and I want to attach some decorative lamp finials upside down as legs for a piece of furniture. Go to store, get some screws. Easy, right? A standard 1/4" screw is 20 pitch thread. But a lamp finial is 1/4" 27 pitch, for reasons that probably made sense to Tommy Edison. Can't find screws like I want, even online. (cont.)<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hardware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hardware</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/metric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metric</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SAE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SAE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/screws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>screws</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bolts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bolts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/maker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maker</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/diy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>diy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/modelbuilding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>modelbuilding</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/makers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>makers</span></a></p>
Robert H<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@GottaLaff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>GottaLaff</span></a></span> </p><p>In his effort to improve everything in the U.S. government, perhaps <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> should direct <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hegseth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hegseth</span></a> to abandon the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/metric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metric</span></a> system in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DoD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DoD</span></a> . Things would be better with miles, stone, slugs, and drams, rather than kilometers and millimeters.</p>
MediaFaro Magazine<p>Protecting the pint: British Lords vote to safeguard cherished measure.</p><p>Britain's House of Lords voted on Wednesday to ensure pubs can still serve beer in pints (568.26125 ml) - a cherished unit of measurement that survived the country's switch to the metric system in 1965.</p><p>Despite Brexit, the UK government has given up on a return to the imperial system of measurement.</p><p>Now, a new safeguard will ensure pints shall stay pints.</p><p><a href="https://mediafaro.org/article/20250306-protecting-the-pint-british-lords-vote-to-safeguard-cherished-measure?mf_channel=mastodon&amp;action=forward" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mediafaro.org/article/20250306</span><span class="invisible">-protecting-the-pint-british-lords-vote-to-safeguard-cherished-measure?mf_channel=mastodon&amp;action=forward</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Metric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Metric</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Pints" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pints</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Beer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Beer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Ale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ale</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Brexit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brexit</span></a></p>
Shantell Powell<p>I just finished reading Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix. It's a harrowing read, and I feel much more educated on pregnancy and how unwed mothers were treated in the days before legal abortion. But one thing about the story kept niggling at me. It's set in Florida in 1969, and measurements were referred to in metric. As in, how many litres of blood in a human body, and how many centimeters a cervix is dilated. </p><p>Now, maybe it's different in the medical profession, but metric wasn't introduced in Canada until the 70s when I was a little kid. And as far as I know, Americans still haven't adopted the metric system for whatever reason. </p><p>Sooo... was this something the editors didn't catch, or am I wrong about metric not being used in 1969 Florida?<br><a href="https://c.im/tags/metric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metric</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>medicine</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/obstetrics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>obstetrics</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MedicalHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MedicalHistory</span></a></p>
Daniel AJ Sokolov<p>If Mr. Musk wants to make the <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/USgov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USgov</span></a> more <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/efficient" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>efficient</span></a>, he should switch everything to the <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/metric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metric</span></a> system and <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/SI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SI</span></a> units. <br><a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a></p>
⠵⠻⠷⠕⠭ 🍥🍉⚪🌹<p>🎶 Because the last time you let yourself feel this way<br>It was a long, long time ago<br>And now we get so scared, and we get so scared<br>To be nowhere left alone</p><p>Because it's now or never now<br>It's now or never now, now, now 🎶<br><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=NC8MfulGMXE" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=NC8MfulGMXE</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NowPlaying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NowPlaying</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Metric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Metric</span></a></p>
JdeBP<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@chris108" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>chris108</span></a></span> </p><p>Hannah Fry is a Johnny-come-lately in this case, and a YouTube short is comparatively nothing.</p><p>It is approaching the 30 year anniversary of Markus Kuhn enthusing about ISO standard paper sizes.</p><p><a href="https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.</span><span class="invisible">html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ISO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ISO</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/standards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>standards</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/PaperSizes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaperSizes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/metric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metric</span></a></p>
Rpsu (326 ppm)<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@tokyo_0" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>tokyo_0</span></a></span> My friend working for <a href="https://mas.to/tags/nokia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nokia</span></a> used to say (looong time ago) that volumes make standards, not standarding process. </p><p>I think this is a close relative to that. If big players don't feel like using standards - being it <a href="https://mas.to/tags/semantics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>semantics</span></a> or <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ISO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ISO</span></a> or <a href="https://mas.to/tags/metric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metric</span></a> systems - it just won't happen. </p><p>Everybody else loses.</p>
Bobbing Boat<p>The second crane to lift the boat had a scale on it.</p><p>I had been led to believe the boat was 35 long tons, fully furnished and fitted out. In fact it is about half that.</p><p>Yesterday I learned it weighs 17 long tons or 2,700 stone, after draining the tanks. A long ton is close enough to a metric tonne that I could also say the boat weighs about 17 metric tonnes.</p><p>I think. Who the heck knows imperial weights and measures? <a href="https://poweredbygay.social/tags/RhetoricalQuestion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RhetoricalQuestion</span></a></p><p><a href="https://poweredbygay.social/tags/correction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>correction</span></a> <a href="https://poweredbygay.social/tags/narrowboat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>narrowboat</span></a> <a href="https://poweredbygay.social/tags/weight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>weight</span></a> <a href="https://poweredbygay.social/tags/mass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mass</span></a> <a href="https://poweredbygay.social/tags/imperial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>imperial</span></a> <a href="https://poweredbygay.social/tags/metric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metric</span></a></p>
penpencilbrush🇨🇦<p>Watching a US cooking video and getting confused by the measurements, which leads to research... </p><p>1 US quart = 32 oz whereas <br>1 Imperial Quart = 40 oz</p><p>1 oz US - 1.04 oz Imperial</p><p>So if anyone ever asks if you want a US quart or an Imperial quart, go for the Imperial quart, which I think used to be used in Canada.</p><p>1 US qt = .94 litre, it's not even a full litre</p><p>Metric is just so much simpler.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/metric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metric</span></a></p>
Space Hobo<p>While it was pessimistic to believe that America would build walled ghettos for the unemployed by now, and that they would still be using middle-endian numeric dates, at least <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/DS9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DS9</span></a> had hope that the US would move to the <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/metric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metric</span></a> system. And kind of bizarrely optimistic in the current context that any housing at all would be set aside for the homeless, however decrepit.</p><p>Also kind of strange for the show to never even acknowledge that this is an election year.</p>
😀🚲<p>100mps = 360 kph wtf <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/metric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metric</span></a></p>
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