• MisterFrog@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        If it weren’t so ingrained, I would be permanently using YYYY-MM-DD instead of DD/MM/YYYY.

        Works great for east Asia, and it sorts!

        I’d also like to advocate for using 24 time in speech.

        See you at 21 tomorrow :)

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        1 year ago

        We wouldn’t in America in most cases. I’d say it’s August 9th 2023. I honestly feel like this is such a dumb argument to have because it doesn’t matter except for communication with people who use other methods. Now metric vs imperial makes way more sense to me because the metric system is just so much easier for mathematical conversions.

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          1 year ago

          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.