Tucker Carlson and the Metric System (Full segment)
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https://youtu.be/1cPeZLCVWTw
kailo grams
Have been forced to
I remember the day i spoke of a single foot in the early days of public school. The teachers would flog me something awful with their decitails. I cry whenever i use grams, and i start screaming if i have to use KYLOgrams.
Or, it actually just makes some really good sense?
Year-Month-Day makes the most sense tbh, we always put the largest unit first when we count something else.
Always confused me why time is hours/minutes/seconds but date is day/month/year. It's better than month/day/year, which makes no sense at all, but still.
Year-month-day is definitely the best with maintaining file systems.
What really shits me off with dates though, is when they are written like “releases 08/06/2019”. Is that fucking the 8th of June or the 6th of August? And you can never be sure because so many companies are American-centric, but if you aren’t in America, then which is it? It’s why we always write dates like “8 June 2019” in my workplace to remove any ambiguity.
I hate that shit. I can never be sure which is which unless one number is 13 or larger.
what? these people are absolutely 100% fucking retarded.
The old measurements might have been useful in the past, but they had big problems even then. How big a foot was could vary from town to town. It was fucked up.
The metric system brought standardization with it, and that's what lets us work with others far away precisely, and that's how we have so much technology now. Even imperial units are based on metric now.
We're not medieval farmers anymore, everyone carries a calculator with them at all times, who gives a shit if you can't divide by 3 in your head. The benefit of everyone being on the same page would outweigh ease of calculation, and metric is still significantly easier for unit conversion.
Also look at this bullshit I just found, fuck that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_the_imperial_and_US_customary_measurement_systems
I've can't for the life of me find this clip, but I remember the Game Grumps, in one of their Katamari series, got a score of something like 1735km 369m 24cm 8mm and Arin asked something like "I wonder how much that would be in centimeters". I love the existence of the Imperial system.
Year-Month-Day is great for database use, but not so much for everyday use
Y-M-D makes it incredibly easy to sort chronologically because then it's exactly the same as alphabetically
In most daily situations, the day is the most important bit of information, followed by the month, and finally the year
It really depends on the context IMO
Month-Day-Year is still plain dumb either way
You don't write the year or month if they aren't relevant. And they become far more relevant than the day as the timescale grows.
Dont limit yourself to using one or the other, combine them instead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX6FpLBDOFs
Personally, I like Day-Month-Year for a couple of reasons.
Day and month first because they are usually the most relevant/important.
If the year is omitted you assume it's the current year. We don't (and shouldn't) say "yeah, I'm having a party the 2019th August 12th"
So it's just the way we usually speak dates. I.e 08-09-1997 becomes "The 8th of September 1997", intuitive and consistent.
Last one doesn't apply to the United States. Outside of a few specific dates (4th of July for example) dates are usually spoken like "September (the) 8th, 1997" or whatever. I know dates are also sometimes said this way in the UK, though not always.
It's also way easier to sort things digitally using year/month/day
Fun fact: font sizes (i.e. the "point" measurement) are measured relative to an inch. The vertical space allocated for 1 point font is 1/72 of an inch, 36 point font has 1/2 an inch, etc (at 100% zoom for monitors).
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