There were those posts running around the other day about how you can convert between C and F using the Fibonacci sequence and how you can convert between meters and miles using the subway stop & associated street names for one of the Manhattan subway ...
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There were those posts running around the other day about how you can convert between C and F using the Fibonacci sequence and how you can convert between meters and miles using the subway stop & associated street names for one of the Manhattan subway lines
and all I could think was "CAN WE JUST FUCKING USE THE METRIC SYSTEM ALREADY. THAT IS EASIER THAN THE NYC SUBWAY MAP OR GENERATING THE FIBONACCI SEQUENCE ON THE FLY IN MY HEAD"
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(I originally was going to write "USonians will do anything except learn the metric system" but I really, really hate how we consider this stupid fucking backwards ass system some sort of measure of National Pride
Fahrenheit defenders, your opinions are not wanted here) -
(anyway my irritation isn't at the meme posters, it's at our stupid state for sucking)
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@aud we already switched to the metric system tho, at least according to the official reply on the We The People petition to switch to the metric system https://petitions.obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/petition/make-metric-system-standard-united-states-instead-imperial-system/
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@[email protected] "At the same time, if the metric system and U.S. customary system are languages of measurement, then the United States is truly a bilingual nation." this is not the way I wish our nation was bilingual I do not like this justification.