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[–] nxfsi@lemmy.world 77 points 1 year ago

Above: how Chinese propaganda sees America

Below: how Americans see America

[–] beto@lemmy.studio 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

Fun fact: you can convert from miles to kilometers using the Fibonacci sequence:

1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 35

  • 5 miles = 8 kilometers
  • 21 miles = 35 kilometers
  • 10 miles (2 + 8) = 16 kilometers (3 + 13)

So this means 1 mile = 1 kilometer.

[–] peril33@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Fun Fact: you can choose not to use miles

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

And after choosing not to use them, you might need to convert them to something else sometimes. You gonna tell me Europeans never travel to America as tourists? This is a fascinating and easy to remember method for them or anyone else.

You came to the right thread for shitting on Americans, obviously, but you chose the wrong place for this condescending comment.

[–] joel_feila@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Well I'm trying to get the the kilofoot to catch on

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[–] zakobjoa@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Someone call someone, I think I had a stroke.

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[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

"Americans doing anything to not use the metric system" today: the Fibonacci sequence.

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[–] LazyBane@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago (7 children)

The headline implies that the trade deal went through.

[–] kevinbacon@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

What do you think big macs are made of?

[–] soviettaters@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The FBI set up a sting while looking for people who want to trade babies for Big Macs. It's a bigger problem than you think.

[–] ki77erb@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

"Babies for Big Macs" sounds like some weird non-profit charity.

[–] AnonymousBaba@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

they will train that baby to become a ideal worker

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[–] Roundcat@kbin.social 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So basically the world sees us like we see Florida.

[–] nyoooom@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

Yeah from my experience the US is the Florida of the world.

We all know you guys aren't all crazy, but there is enough of them to be part of the final picture in our mind.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

That’s probably fair

[–] LouNeko@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (15 children)

I think there are states in the US where its easier to make a baby than a living wage.

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[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

America: I bet the rest of the world is so thinking about me right now.

The rest of the world: My brother in earth, I have my own shit going on.

[–] GreyDawn@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yet, the picture is about the United States. lol

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[–] Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Would they adopt metric if it was killermeters?

[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

*Killingminors

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[–] alvvayson@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That, and being dependent on your automobile.

True, within some big American cities, a mostly) carfree life is possible if you live in a condo near a metro station.

But walkable neighborhoods are a rarity, while they are the default in the rest of the world.

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[–] ChillPenguin@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

As an American, definitely see America as the bottom picture.

[–] jadegear@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can tell how old this is - a baby's only worth 6 Big Macs anymore.

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[–] havokdj@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

what the fuck is a kilometer

A meter used to measure how many TERRORISTS we killed today B-)

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[–] fapforce5@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (6 children)

America is a really big and diverse place. Really it's both and neither depending on where you are

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[–] hglman@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

In merica we got Kill-o-meters, and they go up to big numbers.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Spoken like a true non American

[–] drdabbles@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jokes on all of you, I know what a kilometer is because it's the maximum distance I would walk to trade a baby for 15 Big Macs.

[–] Ddhuud@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't believe you. Obviously not the baby part, but the walking part.

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[–] RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah he's an idiot but why is there only 1 mugshot, who's the dude that bought the baby?

[–] dwalin@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If a man ofered me a baby for 15 big macs, i would accept the deal, take the baby and go to the police.

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

So you lose the baby AND 15 Big Macs!? Terrible negotiation skills. You got played.

[–] Yttra@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Citizens of the USA should strive to be the America that Capcom Japan thinks you are

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[–] Gamey@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

The lower picture is missing a conferderate flag next to the fat idiot, that would definitely be there in my head!

[–] RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can confirm. McDonald's now no longer offers the Baby for a Big Mac deal. Thanks, assholes.

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[–] CAVOK@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A kilometer is 4,971 furlongs, or 10,96 football fields.

[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Football fields are a stupid measurement in more than one way, because you can not just measure the width or the length, but football fields can be of varying sizes too.

[–] CAVOK@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (7 children)

It was a joke about we how Americans will use any measurement except the metric system. I'm sorry.

Also this never fails to make me smile.

"In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigradeβ€”which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it. Whereas in the American system, the answer to β€˜How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?’ is β€˜Go fuck yourself,’ because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities" -- Josh Bazell

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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

We don’t know what those numbers mean with your communist commas. A decimal point (period) is the only real way to delimit unit from fractional units

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I felt like a stupid lazy American, but I admit I was relieved last week when our vacation in Canada, which was otherwise wonderful, ended so I could figure out speed and distance again in the units of measurements I know.

Although it didn't help that Toyota decided to not include a 'show speed in metric units' option in my Prius for some bizarre reason. They did in other models, just not the model I have.

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