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

@quixoticgeek @wonka football fields and Olympic swimming pools, those are the best.

It's usually the ignorance in editorial or copywriting level which is responsible for journalistic content.

There was a fatal plane crash due to weight measures being different. There is absolutely no logic in leaving units in US Imperial system.

@tadbithuman @wonka And when the units get so large... I remember the time a country the size of Wales played against a country the size of Belgium. (yes real headline).

I think Acre foot, and board foot are the units that make the least sense to me...