As an American I've been metricating rather than just waiting for my country to get on board and it's not as hard as I'd expected. Everyone in my life hates that I'm doing it but I'm liking it
this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2025
540 points (98.7% liked)
196
1839 readers
2230 users here now
Community Rules
You must post before you leave
Be nice. Assume others have good intent (within reason).
Block or ignore posts, comments, and users that irritate you in some way rather than engaging. Report if they are actually breaking community rules.
Use content warnings and/or mark as NSFW when appropriate. Most posts with content warnings likely need to be marked NSFW.
Most 196 posts are memes, shitposts, cute images, or even just recent things that happened, etc. There is no real theme, but try to avoid posts that are very inflammatory, offensive, very low quality, or very "off topic".
Bigotry is not allowed, this includes (but is not limited to): Homophobia, Transphobia, Racism, Sexism, Abelism, Classism, or discrimination based on things like Ethnicity, Nationality, Language, or Religion.
Avoid shilling for corporations, posting advertisements, or promoting exploitation of workers.
Proselytization, support, or defense of authoritarianism is not welcome. This includes but is not limited to: imperialism, nationalism, genocide denial, ethnic or racial supremacy, fascism, Nazism, Marxism-Leninism, Maoism, etc.
Avoid AI generated content.
Avoid misinformation.
Avoid incomprehensible posts.
No threats or personal attacks.
No spam.
Moderator Guidelines
Moderator Guidelines
- Don’t be mean to users. Be gentle or neutral.
- Most moderator actions which have a modlog message should include your username.
- When in doubt about whether or not a user is problematic, send them a DM.
- Don’t waste time debating/arguing with problematic users.
- Assume the best, but don’t tolerate sealioning/just asking questions/concern trolling.
- Ask another mod to take over cases you struggle with, if you get tired, or when things get personal.
- Ask the other mods for advice when things get complicated.
- Share everything you do in the mod matrix, both so several mods aren't unknowingly handling the same issues, but also so you can receive feedback on what you intend to do.
- Don't rush mod actions. If a case doesn't need to be handled right away, consider taking a short break before getting to it. This is to say, cool down and make room for feedback.
- Don’t perform too much moderation in the comments, except if you want a verdict to be public or to ask people to dial a convo down/stop. Single comment warnings are okay.
- Send users concise DMs about verdicts about them, such as bans etc, except in cases where it is clear we don’t want them at all, such as obvious transphobes. No need to notify someone they haven’t been banned of course.
- Explain to a user why their behavior is problematic and how it is distressing others rather than engage with whatever they are saying. Ask them to avoid this in the future and send them packing if they do not comply.
- First warn users, then temp ban them, then finally perma ban them when they break the rules or act inappropriately. Skip steps if necessary.
- Use neutral statements like “this statement can be considered transphobic” rather than “you are being transphobic”.
- No large decisions or actions without community input (polls or meta posts f.ex.).
- Large internal decisions (such as ousting a mod) might require a vote, needing more than 50% of the votes to pass. Also consider asking the community for feedback.
- Remember you are a voluntary moderator. You don’t get paid. Take a break when you need one. Perhaps ask another moderator to step in if necessary.
founded 1 week ago
MODERATORS
I love that you're doing it. Sincerely, an Australian who loves the metric system.
I heard UK buys liters but but measures mileage in miles per gallon. Is that true?
Yes. Also a US gallon is 3.79 litres but a UK gallon is 4.55 litres, so one US mpg is 1.201 UK mpg
This is asinine
Edit: but who’s the worst offender? The freedom gallon or the UK one?
both of them. The rest of the world has moved on
Lmao fair
Yeah, it makes no sense to me, a 44 year old English guy who was taught metric at school, with a little imperial because our society still uses it in certain places.
In essence, I think it’s because the Boomers still have a stranglehold. Few years back there was a story about a sign put up in a park somewhere announcing the distance to a local attraction in metres. Some local boomer kept removing the sign, or changing the distance to yards or some shit, as if the sign was meant only for his use.
Imagine having the emotional capacity to be mad at a measurement sign multiple times ha. I hope he cares so deeply about other issues too.
This is the reason I set my phone's language to Irish English... I needed an English language option that uses sane measurements for everything.
How many yuhboys make a yiz?
canada
The "is it related to work" is a little misleading. Most industries are mostly imperial but government regulations and communications are all metric so things like fisheries end up being pretty metric.
Yeah it's extremely relative.
My industry uses both, regularly, because we have machinery from both the US and Europe.
The U.S.'s flowchart is pretty complicated, too.
We sell soda in 20oz, 1L, and 2L bottles, or 12 ounce cans. Fountain drinks are measured in ounces.
Wine and liquor are sold in 750ml bottles (and other larger format bottles measured in liters), but individual servings are generally measured in ounces.
Our bullets/ammunition are also mixed, probably because we did standardize our military on NATO standards, but also love our legacy calibers and have a bunch of calibers that aren't used in the military.
And the U.S. isn't unique in having a bunch of ways to measure energy (joules, calories, kilowatt hours, therms, BTUs), but we're somewhat unique in having too many ways to measure power (watts, BTUs/hr, horsepower).
My least favourite unit is Tons of refrigeration.
That is whack that there are people seriously advertising products with this.
Whoever made this seems to think tonnes are Imperial...? Isn't a ton basically just a megagram? Or am I confused?
Apparently there’s also a (mostly outdated) unit called a long ton (or “ton”) not to be confused with a metric tonne (or “tonne”). TIL.
A long ton is about 1.016something metric tonne.
TIL! Thanks.
Tonnes? Do they mean megagrams?
We think they’re referring to the british ‘Long ton’ which isn’t used much anymore
I think they mean a metric ton, as it’s painted in the same colors as the other metric units.
‘Tonne’ is red with the metric ones and ‘ton’ is blue with the imperial
That’s what I said.
My bad, misread
Cherio
The stone is for hitting the Brits with until they stop using it as a measurement.
Well still see Fahrenheit used if it's a hot sunny day. If it's a cold day we use Celsius.
I've literally never heard anyone use fahrenheit ever not even my gramie and she still thinks of things in pre decimal money sometimes
I’m not positive if you’re making this up ✖‿✖
Here is a pretty good example why in some cases “middleground” “compromise” can be worse than either extreme.
Very nice. Now let's see Canada's ~~business card~~ measurement flowchart.
view more: next ›