Comment on 28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower
TheRealKuni@piefed.social 1 week agoGot it. Metric horsepower isn’t metric. Forgive me for thinking a recognized metric unit is metric. And also for not putting the kW conversion in bold or something.
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Dasus@lemmy.world 1 week ago
So you’re just gonna ignore everything that’s not inline with what you’re saying? Yawn. Perhaps try rereading my comments.
TheRealKuni@piefed.social 1 week ago
Oh I read your pedantry. You just really don’t want to say, “Oh, interesting, I didn’t realize there was ever a metric horsepower.”
Dasus@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Lol, you’re the one who’s arguing youre right, despite me clearly stressing that I know that if we’re superanal pedants you could technically make the argument that “metric system” can also refer to non-SI units which use decimal prefixes.
That a lone doesn’t mean you we’re right. See that “metric system” link there? Give it a click, would you, and then rethink on who’s being pedantic.
You haven’t told me anything interesting. I’m well aware of things like the attempt of France to change the time to powers a decimal system as well. They didn’t. Time is still in SI-units and that system is colloquially known as THE METRIC SYSTEM.
Like I said, you’re not exactly wrong, per se. (But you definitely are now, being such an annoying pedant while ignoring the very simple points I made.)
TheRealKuni@piefed.social 1 week ago
I’m not ignoring your point. I’m saying your point is irrelevant. This is a unit in use today, with “metric” in its English name. I don’t care that it isn’t part of what is colloquially called “the metric system.” That wasn’t the point.
But don’t worry, next time I think to myself, “I could reply with a fun bit of trivia I know and make a comment that is both correct and also not at all what the person I’m replying to means or expects,” I’ll first ask myself, “What would Dasus say?”