How wide is the average person? About 1/2 a block 1/2 a meter
This advice doesn't apply to Americans
this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2023
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I love when they're called freedom units.
What's that in freedom units?
Sounds ridiculous in a good way.
“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 centigrade—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 ‘How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?’ is ‘Go fuck yourself,’ because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities.” ― Josh Bazell, Wild Thing
1 meter is roughly 17 football field bud lights per ar-15.
An average american is 26 big macs tall
Honestly these are the sort of shortcuts a teacher should embrace. Personally i just had the idea of flooding public schools with metric rulers but this is even better
"More Meter sticks!"
"But sir! We're already at capacity! The school can't possibly take anymore!"
"I said more! If we don't get those meter sticks in that school, we could put the world in jeopardy. Nobody would know how long to run for charities, science would fail, entire populations would be trampled by feet!"
"My god... They're... Sir!"
"What is it?"
"They're... they're American."
"Good help us all."
i feel like this falls apart pretty quickly lol
Are there non-metric meters?
Yards
Welp....I'm just glad a younger audience is on lemmy.
Man, I'm 27 years old. Minecraft came out while I was in middleschool. I appreciate being called young... but I'm dealing with very adult feeling things at this stage in my life, like a balding scalp and dead parents.
Sorry for your loss, mate 😞 Hope things start leveling out for you.
It's OK. I was never really that attached to my hair in the first place
Comedy gold. A twist and a pun. At the same time.
Another useful tip: because the conversion rate of 1.609 miles to kilometers is so close to the golden ratio (1.618), you can use the Fibonacci sequence to estimate a conversion.
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, ...
5 miles is about 8km, 8 miles is about 13km, etc
"Whot to heck, how is this YSK?.... Oh it is a freedom thing"
Approximations in imperial units helps me a lot. A meter is a yard, a centimeter is about 3/8" (2.5 per inch), a millimeter is about 1/32" (half a 16th). Everyone knows how big two liters is from soda bottles. A kilogram is about two pounds. Room temperature is 20°C while 0 is freezing and 100 is boiling. 50°C is about 120°F.
If we need precision we can break out the measures, we just need to have a gut sense of this stuff.