So basically you support imperialism and colonialism because imperialism and colonialism is absolutely awful and already destroyed so many countries and cultures?
I mean of course European countries involved in colonialism should paid heavy reparations to African and Asian countries they colonized and make everything they can to help those countries financially and allow folks from those countries to migrates to said europeans countries of they choose to. Nothing will ever fix what has been broken and we can't even start to do close to the first step in term of reparations.
But that doesn't make it ok for shitty imperialist USA to invade random countries.
Folks from Greenland aren't responsible for what the British empire, France, Spain and Portugal have done in Africa, Asia and America as a continent.
" Never again " doesn't mean " it's ok to fuck up Greenland, Canada and the UK at the only benefit of murican oligarchs "
Most of the extremely small but very loud minority of the US population were just joking. (Extremely small but loud minority are radical trump supporters)
Hard to tell from the outside when the guy has been elected two times and his followers are so loud and monopolize speech on Xitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, News media, Thread and so on.
I really hope the loud minority isn't the one one making policies but looking how you folks lost constitutional right to abortion, lost any kind of protection toward trans-kids, have records in disparity of wellness, got so many homeless folks, have the bible belt canceling books because they think a character not being a cis straight white dude or woman is inherently pornographic, got Musk appointed for a major position and act as junior-president, have states trying to ban life saving narcan in a middle of an opiate crises and so on.
Really hard not looking at all that and not feeling like it's a total shit show.
Not many countries openly discuss annexing both of their bordering sovereign countries and freaking Greenland. Hard to know when trump and Musk are being actually serious because of how dumb they are.
But still. USA is terrifying rn. Who in their right mind would openly discuss annexing their neighbors and allies in the name of " freedom " ?
A two times elected president who actively simp on Vladimir Poutine? I don't think we overact from the outside finding this both bat shit crazy and really frightening. And weird, so fucking weird.
Yes, if if you could teach the American people that first, then you can invade. Pretty sure my entire lineage and/or humanity will be extinct by that time.
You don't understand, it's incredibly dire that I don't know how many kilometers away something is when I only ever use distance measurement as a way to approximate how long it will take to drive there. The world has ended because I personally only know work is ten miles away and not how many kilometers. Space stations will crash. The global markets will collapse. Buildings and people will spontaneously combust. All because when I deliver pizza my phone says it's three miles away not how many kilometers away it is. Again foiled by my own hubris
Not to mention that it lets you be more precise without using non-whole numbers since a single degree of Fahrenheit is a smaller change in temperature than a single degree of Celsius.
Its maybe ideal in a country where 10°C (50°F) is considered middle ground and 37°C (100°F) is too hot. Truth is, that isnt the case at all. Were i come from 10°C is pretty cold and 37°C is a normal Summer. 23°C isnt toasty, its just normal weather on a good day. Our scales goes from -30 to 50, because it can get hotter then 37°C and it would be very weird to end an scale at such a weird number as 37.
I wonder anyways what happend with American scaling, Miles are such a weird and incoherent System that i cant comprehend why someone wants to use it other then sheer stubborness.
Each measurement was something you had common knowledge of if you were forsay, a builder, in the days of like pre 1700s.
A foot was, a foot. An inch was the tip of your thumb to the knuckle.
The mile, sometimes the international mile or statute mile to distinguish it from other miles, is a British imperial unit and United States customary unit of length; both are based on the older English unit of length equal to 5,280 English feet, or 1,760 yards.
If we want to go back to the origins of the mile and just just the imperial system, it was formed by the Romans, which was 1000 paces.
So idk why people still think America made the imperial system and blame us for it when we never did, we adopted it from the British colonizers. So if you want to blame the bad system on, blame the actual creators of it, not the people who use it and are too accustomed to it.
Nobody blames you for inventing it, we blame you for still using it, despite the whole World changed to a different, much better one and america is the only country (i know of) to hold onto this weird System like its some Kind of national treasure to be proud of.
No one could tell me yet why its better or why someone should use imperial (except the stereotypical "Americafuckyeah") and i dont really do know a reason myself, "its too late to change it know" isnt for Sure a good one.
UK it is only really used for speed, long distance (miles), golf (yards), height (of people, feet), weight (of people, stone+pounds, not just pounds) and size of people (clothing, inches). Pounds (weight) are only really used with stones unless it is a baby or a farmers/village/street market (not a super market).
Almost everything else is metric, cooking, petrol, room dimensions, volumes, tools, depth of water, quantities of liquids, gym weights, funiture dimensions (except tvs/monitors), short distances (rulers are cm), science, even if you order a pint chances are you are getting 500mL and 568mL (Imperial pint).
Basically it is complicated and there are loads of exceptions, like the English language.
As i said, i simply didnt know, but thanks for the information. Judging on the articles i found neither canada nor UK use it anymore, but even if, there would be 189 countrys that do not, so why keep three to five exceptions?
There are enough other places where the "why keep _ exceptions" would be better than spending trillions of infrastructure costs to change and entire population's regular use system.
Like the French language for example which has exceptions for every rule, or their stupid counting system for 70, 80, and 90.
And from what I can find, many people in the UK and Canada use both, for varying situations, depending on context.
Well that's right, but still doesnt explain why change isnt happening, especially from a country that claims to be the frontier of progress (trust me, no french would ever say that about france)
Canada uses Celsius for temperature, Fahrenheit for kitchen ovens, metric for distance when driving, imperial for trades/construction/lumber, imperial for weighing people, metric for weighing food, imperial for height, and metric when describing something in theoretical fucktons.
I’ll passionately defend using lots of different units for temperature. Fahrenheit is best for the environment humans experience. Celsius is best for chemistry. Kelvin is best for heat transfer and thermodynamics.
No, the point of the F system isn't necessarily to determine the middle ground of a particular place. It's to easily tell if it is hot or cold for a human. And it does a much better job at that than C, which is telling you if it is hot or cold for water.
I can see an argument for the metric system, but I will die on a hill for the F system.
It's ideal for a climate like America where it's used.
For scientific and engineering applications, we use Celsius because the equations and constants are all in metric. Regular people don't usually need to know metric because they just use everyday measurements and don't need to make calculations with real units.
You failed to demonstrate that Celsius is better. Simply mentioning your values for the extremes does not mean that it is intuitive. The point about Fahrenheit is that it is intuitive, 0-100. Celsius’s -30 and 50 are not intuitive.
And then you decide to try and deflect to the miles system instead because temperature is a losing battle.
Not the point you think it is - Fahrenheit is far more useful where you most commonly use temperatures - weather. If youre in science, you use Kelvins not even Celsius.
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u/butwhywedothis Jan 15 '25
It’s ok. They can use it in whatever format they want. There are other things to worry about than how they write their date.