I mean I'm pretty sure the American system is defined using SI units so it's mostly because of American exceptionalism and a fetish for unit conversion.

They self-actualized upon leaving the state. I'm telling you, that place is contaminated.

Tbf, they (1) asked a question to learn something new and (2) where open about the result. That's highly respectable

Dawg I was like how tf did a Lemmy post get 48k votes.

i miss apollo every day

Is that iOS? It looks different here on Android and I can't tell how much of it is because I customized it. I don't quite remember how I customized it but I remember that I did.

My buttons are colored orange instead of blue, that's definitely something I would do. The share button looks different, as does the top bar with the back button.

Are you saying they aren't?

This is the true reason metric is better. A lot of people think it's inherently better for various reasons: it's decimal and it's based on the constants of nature. While nice, that doesn't make it a better system.

The reason it's a better system is that there has only ever been one metre, there has only ever been one litre, there has only ever been one kilogram. If you use any metric unit there is no ambiguity, there has never been ambiguity and there never will be ambiguity. There's just one system.

For the imperial system and all of its branches and predecessors, that's just not the case. The foot has had different measures, the mile has had different measures, the fl oz still has different measures as you noted. You can speak to someone and say some measure, they hear your exact words and interpret it as some different measures.

That's the real problem with imperial, and that's why metric was invented.

Ridiculous. The metric system is all the same. How many millimommies in a decamommy? I dunno, but it's 10 or 100 or 1000 or something like that. Everything is a factor of ten, and the unit conversions are even a factor of 10! You can look that up in a table, and a 6-year-old can properly measure things. Booooring!

Now look at the Imperial/English/Standard/US/Florida system: how many hogshead in a cubic furlong? Nobody knows offhand, so you have to get creative. Is it a US standard colonial, also called a tobacco hogshead? Or is it the British hogshead? It may depend on the contents, like whether it's brandy or sugar or fish (the species matters!). You can convert to firkins if you wish, but that's optional. As for furlongs, it used to depend on the horse, but sadly they standardized it to 40 rods, because German feet were longer than English feet, probably due to the toes. Fortunately, some states in the US still disagree on definitions, so the length may depend on the state. Once you figure that out, you can easily calculate that using a English wine hogshead and an international furlong leads to about 34,136,818.7 hogshead in a cubic furlong. Explain to me how that's not better than your silly metric system!

That could be an ad campaign for NSW, genius

No; stupid questions!

The shortest unit of time in the multiverse is the New York Second, defined as the period of time between the traffic lights turning green and the cab behind you honking.

- Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies (Discworld, #14; Witches, #4)

Looks like Apollo for Reddit (screenshot is likely a few years old)