• MisterFrog@lemmy.world
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        I mean, sort of. TIL this particular unit came from different definitions of hundredweight. Though, I’d argue this is still kinda of British origin (and the pound).

        My favourite unit to pick on when someone doesn’t want to switch to metric because it’s “European” and they’re proud Americans, is BTU.

        Why yes, how American, British Thermal Units haha

        Don’t be me started on tons of refrigeration 0_0 that’s nightmare fuel

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      And Reagan, don’t forget Reagan scrapping plans to officially switch to metric!

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        I bet Reagan made “soccer”, the British slang for association football, popular among Americans in his youth.

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          I think we should call “football” exactly what it is. Unassociated soccer.

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      I assume this is meant as a joke, but my pedantic ass can’t let it slide. 0.9766 kilobytes, or 976.6 bytes doesn’t make much sense unless we are assuming a rounding error because that would require a fraction of a bit which is indivisible.

      I’m assuming you were comparing kilobytes (KB) to kibibytes (KiB). A kilobyte is decimal based, so it is 1000 bytes. A kibibyte, which is binary based, is 2^10 bytes, i.e. 1024 bytes. And so a kilobyte is ~0.9766 kibibytes.

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    Metric is just as bad. 2200 lbs. Why couldnt they make it 1000 of someting /s

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      What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.