PugJesus@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoThis is outrageous! It's unfair!lemmy.worldimagemessage-square62linkfedilinkarrow-up1592arrow-down121
arrow-up1571arrow-down1imageThis is outrageous! It's unfair!lemmy.worldPugJesus@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square62linkfedilink
minus-squareohulancutash@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·1 month agoThe US doesn’t use imperial measures. It uses US customary measures which often have the same names but are significantly different.
minus-squareZwiebel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 month agoTechnically theses days they use SI with weird conversion factors, and call that by the old US customary names
minus-squareabbotsbury@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoI don’t think that is any different than SI changing the definition of a meter and calling it a meter still.
minus-squareZwiebel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·24 days agoThat’s a new meter tho, slightly different in length from the old one
minus-squareJeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month agoThe US measures are based on an older Imperial system that Britain changed. There were different measures in different parts of the UK.
The US doesn’t use imperial measures. It uses US customary measures which often have the same names but are significantly different.
Technically theses days they use SI with weird conversion factors, and call that by the old US customary names
I don’t think that is any different than SI changing the definition of a meter and calling it a meter still.
That’s a new meter tho, slightly different in length from the old one
The US measures are based on an older Imperial system that Britain changed. There were different measures in different parts of the UK.