Like, we consider ourselves worldly people and are aware of America's little idiosyncrasies like mass incarceration, the widespread availability of assault weapons and not being able to transfer money via your banking app, but come on - look how absolutely great it is to be European:

The American mind cannot comprehend this diagram

[Diagram of paper sizes as listed below]

ISO 216 A series papers formats

Et.

Instead, Americans prostrate themselves to bizarrely-named paper types of seemingly random size: Letter, Legal, Tabloid (Ledger) and all other types of sordid nonsense. We're not even going to include a picture because this is a family-friendly finance blog.

Source: Financial Times

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[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 17 points 5 months ago (6 children)

so year over year, you quickly learn that A4 is 22:29.7, and the slightly bigger standard notebooks are 24:32

Pretty sure you just justified Americans using Fahrenheit ;)

[–] yukijoou@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 5 months ago (5 children)

how so?

[–] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Arbitrary numbers become habit

[–] yukijoou@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

i mean, celsius has arbitrary numbers too - human is 37°c, ambiant is 17°c, cooking is 180°c, etc.

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 months ago

You forgot the /s

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