I wonder if the when the US stops burning dinosaurs in it's cars, and is fully electric, if the electric car chargers are going to work in the metric kilowatt hours, or if they are going to have them calibrated in Horsepower per fortnights or something...
@quixoticgeek thankfully motors are rated in kW and hP both and power is charged in kWh.
@tadbithuman @quixoticgeek B-but freedumb joonits!!1! 🥺
@wonka @quixoticgeek younger people do prefer the simplicity of the decimal system and the SI system, I have never seen young people complain about cm, mm or m.
@tadbithuman @wonka and kg or tonnes. Makes so much sense. Seeing NASA launch streams talking about pounds just makes me shudder. The fact you get long and short tons as well... argh
Every maritime exchange is in (metric) tonnes, we buy most of our structural steel internationally, in tonnes, but my drawings have to show weights in pounds and (short) tons. It is supremely stupid.
@tadbithuman @wonka My deepest sympathies. That does sound distinctly unpleasant.
