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Hey I’m going to have to ask you to censor that word. There’s American children on this ap! We can’t have them going to the playground and repeating that kind of language.
Are there children on this app though? Seems like they’d rather be on TikTok or whatever. Unless they are some edgy ML tankie contrarian maybe. In which case, expose to the metric system and nsfw content is the least of their problems.
Unfortunately the us system has the word “imperial” so tankies can’t stand it lol
They might realise that the metric system is much better than the stupid Imperial system, and this could make them fell guilty that their forefathers were ignorant bozos. Republicans hate it when children learn about the errors of their forefathers.
Their forefathers were actually in favor of the metric system. The US is an original signatory to the treaty of the meter, it's the official unit of measure for the government and military, and we were on the brink of getting switched over when Republicans decided they didn't want to spend money on the final conversion and education, despite it being a popular enough notion that it was used for advertising. (The two liter bottle became popular when they used the popularity of metric to sell plastic pop bottles).
The fervent attachment to imperial is weirdly recent.
And are units are tied to metric system as well.
1 inch is defined as exactly 2.54. That’s what an inch “is” in America.
That’s why I liked my joke. We just hate the words themselves