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• Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m so frustrated and confused

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  • snowdriftissue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wow lemmings really cannot comprehend the concept of a shitpost

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    • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Weird place to pull out a high horse to dramatically fall off.

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• Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  100 m = 100 meters = 0.1 kilometers. Miles is abbreviated mi, as in 100 mi. I’m disappointed in you, The Picard Maneuver. Your jokes, shitposts, and memes are usually so much better than this. Are you ok?

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  • The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thank you, lol. I didn’t make this one, but in its defense, I read it as an anti-joke shitpost. I believe it’s intentional.

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    • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes, hats off to you. This one is a gem.

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    • Avicenna@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      anti-what? Is that like a negation on an actual joke and that turns it into a non-joke but you can still read off the joke from its remnants?

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  • AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Dude’s busy posting half the memes here daily, not surprising some things slip through the cracks

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  • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The Picard Maneuver

    Around here I think we’re supposed to refer to them as TPM.

    Until today I had assumed it was derived from “total percentage of meters” but now I just don’t know.

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• ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m… Not really getting it

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    • Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Less a shitpost and more a shit post

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    • Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Like and onion or a cake?

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  • blueeggsandyam@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • Hackworth@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • butwhyishischinabook@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • AHorseWithNoNeigh@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • sveinek@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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• CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • platypode@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Except that’s not what “using metric” means

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    • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • Holyginz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    As an engineer, I’d rather use the metric system. Is it harder for me to visualize since I didn’t grow up with it? Yes, but its so much easier to work with.

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  • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • SpraynardKruger@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m a civil engineer in the US, and can confirm that my industry uses US Customary units. I have some mechanical engineer friends, and most also use US Customary units, with certain exceptions. While in school, the intro classes I took used metric more often than not because it allowed for easier understanding of the source material. By the 3rd year, classes started employing more examples and problems in US Customary units. By year 4, it was almost exclusively US Customary units.

      Forgive my lack of understanding here, but for electrical engineering, what are the alternatives to metric units? I know BTUs can be used instead of Joules, hp can be used instead of Watts, and AWG can be used instead of… Whatever the metric measurement is. BTUs and hp seem to be mainly used for specific industries and consumer products (let’s be honest nobody likes them anyway). AWG is used because that’s the standard that commonly available wires in the US are measured to.

      Temperature and length are obvious. More specifically, I am thinking of volts, amps, and ohms (my understanding caps out at what I learned in my physics classes).

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  • bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My son’s homework is frequently in metric (a US school district). Many drinks (wine and sodas) and medicine doses are too. The US uses metric just as the UK still uses miles and pints.

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• Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• s@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  100 m of water is more than 1 km of water

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  • dodgy_bagel@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, but it has more salt than dasani

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• Donebrach@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fake account posting slop. Good job Lemmy. You have become the enemy

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  • blinfabian@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    oh no, a new user posts shitpostings on the shitposting community, we cant have that 😔

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• OldandBlue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t get it : 100 meters is closer than 1000… 👀

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• finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Too a minute to understand the ‘m’ means ‘miles’ not meters.

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  • SpraynardKruger@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thank you. I was looking at it thinking, “but 100m is only 10% of the other distance”.

    BTW for any curious non-muricans, miles is abbreviated “mi” so it doesn’t get confused with meters. The only slight exception is when you are dealing with transportation, where none of the units are abbreviated properly:

    • miles per hour = “mph” (should be mi/hr)
    • miles per gallon = “mpg” (should be mi/gal)

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    • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      To be fair, km/h is kph in this context. 

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  • Soulg@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Which is wrong, miles should be mi.

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  • imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Kilomiles lul

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• gustofwind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s 1/10th of a kilomile

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• gigastasio@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• HereIAm@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I can’t find the original, but the old but classic image of this is something like this:

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  Hence the play on expectations in OP’s meme.

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• CircaV@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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