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• Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The abbreviation for miles is ‘mi’, ‘m’ is meters so apparently the American here is smarter than you OP.

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  • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Given that it’s a shitpost I think the seeming incongruity is deliberate.

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• ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m confused and probably stupid, but…should the guy not be crawling 100 meters versus 1 km (1,000 meters)? What part of my brain has damage from being dropped as a child?

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  • The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, it’s just a shitpost with layers of irony and edits to the intended joke.

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    • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m… Not really getting it

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    • Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The previous edit to this joke was the American man dying of thirst went to the right because 1<100 and as a math illiterate, he didn’t check the units.

      The original joke was the American man dying of thirst went straight between the two signs because he couldn’t read.

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  • blueeggsandyam@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think the m is supposed to stand for miles. I guess the sign is in a desert between usa and canada

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    • butwhyishischinabook@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Wait that’s the joke??? I’ve never seen “m” used for miles lol.

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    • Hackworth@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Thank you. I’ve only ever seen “mi.” for miles.

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    • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      ‘m’ is definitely meters, ‘mi’ is for miles

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  • AHorseWithNoNeigh@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You’re a doctor for Christ’s sake. Get ahold of yourself!

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  • sveinek@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Agreed, I don’t get it either! I mean we are making fun of the freedom unit here aren’t we?

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• s@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  100 m of water is more than 1 km of water

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• Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Excellent shitpost, I believe that’s what it’s called.

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• CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We joke, but the metric conversion act of 1975 means that most Americans are more familiar with metric than we care to admit. It’s on most everything. Mostly, it’s the professional class — engineers who don’t want to learn to visually estimate in liters/second rather than gallons/second — who have resisted switching over, rather than Joe and Jane American.

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  • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well the US units are defined by their metric conversion these days, so technically they are just metric with some weird factor slapped on

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    • CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Factors of 10 are overrated. Mebibtyes are objectively a better measure than megabytes.

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    • platypode@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Except that’s not what “using metric” means

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    • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      A meter is defined as 1/299,792,458 the distance light travels in one second, so everybody is using weird factors.

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  • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m convinced that the majority of whinging about metric in the US is actually coming from old machine operators tucked away somewhere in the industrial sector who don’t want to give up their old decimal inch Bridgeports and Shipleys, or have bosses who wouldn’t buy them new machines anyway. Everything else stems from there, bubbling on up through the pipes as it does.

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  • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Huh? In my electical engineering studies almost everything is in metric. Are you thinking of certain holdover generations?

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    • CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yep. Old hands in the field, not students in the academy.

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• gustofwind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s 1/10th of a kilomile

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• gigastasio@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I thought this was about how the guy had his shirt tucked in.

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