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Why does the US live rent free in so many European's heads all the time?
Because each time we look for some English content, they use some dumb fantasy metrics based on the size fo the feet of a king for some reason, and we need to look up a converter to change it to a metric used in 195 different countries.
It's really not hard to convert.
Then why don't you Just switch
Because it's a massive waste of money for little to no benefit, and barely actually comes up because unit conversion is trivial and is done constantly regardless of overall unit system.
Armchair unit system fanatics make it out to be such a bigger deal than it is. Whether im working in metric or standard I'm doing several to several dozen dimensional analyses anyway, normally with industry specific units. Which again, exist in both standard and si.
Money.
You mean x football fields.
Coincidentally both βfootball fieldsβ are pretty close in length.
I measure in freedom units brother!
Also how did feet/metric get brought up, that's not even remotely relevant, tf lol.
I love that the meme is about Canada, Australia, and the US(ish), yet it's the Europeans that get called out by this guy. Who's living rent free in whose head? ;)
Am I wrong lol
I didn't know Canada and Australia were in Europe
I'd assume because the internet is 90% catered to american's.