'Pokémon Go' Is Forcing Americans to Learn the Metric System
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Has anyone else noticed that price comparison websites report that the demand in power banks has increased a LOT?
We've got Dutch sites here such as Tweakers.net and hardware.info, and both of them show a huge increase in powerbanks:
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I also checked a few stores that sell the Xiaomi 10.000 and 16.000mAh powerbanks, for both a 14 day delivery time is reported at its best.
[QUOTE=redBadger;50708049]Sorry but month/day/year is infinitely superior.
Everything else is a different story[/QUOTE]
what?
DD/MM/YYYY is obviously more logical
saying shit like January 17th sounds better and i use that when i write out the months and shit but when i use shit like 12.12.2012 you better fucking designate the first digits as the day
Cool, now I have absolutely no reason to GO if I need to keep a metric to imperial chart with me.
[QUOTE=redBadger;50708049]Sorry but month/day/year is infinitely superior.
Everything else is a different story[/QUOTE]
Honestly has to be the most retarded system in the history of our planet.
my american cousin told me she'd be at our party and totally didn't understand I was telling her the date in d/m/y.
fucking yanks.
Fucking yanks
[editline]14th July 2016[/editline]
Also using both has kind of worked here, most old people know both and younger people at least know both, roads are in imperial and so is speed so it's all good.
[QUOTE=Grandzeit;50708127]Likely because milligrams already take up the "mg" abbreviation, so it might end up causing confusion.
[del]Sure micrograms also exist, but that's not exactly a frequently encountered unit.[/del] snip dumb[/QUOTE]
a megagram would be Mg
14/7/2016 just seems more logical because you could interpret is as "the 14th day of the 7th month of the 2016th year" rather than 7/14/2016 which would interpet as "the 7th month with the 14th day in the 2016th year". But that's just a European's opinion...
Also I think that temperatures in Celsius are just as easy as in Fahrenheit. For me, 25°C is preferred, 30°c is hot, 10°C is cold...
[QUOTE=FFStudios;50708169]except it has been shown and [B]proven time and time again that this format is actually horrible and makes things very confusing[/B]?? lmao why do people have stupid levels of pride in something as basic and arbitrary as a measurement system or how to tell time
i don't see people bitching that one language is superior to the next so who gives a fuck, why do people go out of their way to argue metric vs. imperial when the world has worked just fine with both for so many years (except for the gimli glider)[/QUOTE]
Could I get a source or something? Even as an American the MM/DD/YYYY system has confused me.
I always took it that Imperial system is the hipster of measurements. I have no idea why would anyone genuinely think this should be the first measurement system someone should learn.
we technically do use metric.
[URL]https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/make-metric-system-standard-united-states-instead-imperial-system/[/URL]
Watch Pokemon Go be the factor that pushes the US into fully adopting the metric system.
It'd be about fucking time.
[QUOTE=Ducksink;50708080]Actually, 100 meters is equal to about 60 double steps(where both feet have completed 1 cycle)[/QUOTE]
See, I can't use this to gauge distance. I have some pretty long legs, which means when I walk I take some pretty big steps. This makes me go fast enough for Google Now to have logged 0.3mi of biking some months when I haven't ridden a bicycle since I was 12. The bad news is, it fucks me up with US Imperial too, so whenever someone asks me how many miles or kilometers for anything the best answer I can ever really give is "¯\_(ツ)_/¯"
[QUOTE=TheDrunkenOne;50708010]why are muricans still using imperial anyway? it's a retarded system[/QUOTE]
Because in most places where it would really matter (such as science, engineering, etc) the metric system is (usually) used anyway, and for everyday measurements it's functional enough that it isnt worth the massive effort that would be required to switch over.
[QUOTE=Cloak Raider;50708206]and metric + imperial hasn't worked fine, a space probe has literally crashed because of the imperial system[/QUOTE]What? The Mars Climate Orbiter? It didn't "literally crash because of the imperial system", that's blatant overexaggeration. It was lost due to human error.
NASA [I]required[/I] [B]all[/b] calculations to be metric and they didn't get what they specified. The manufacturer accidentally provided Imperial calculations. A simple mistake that threw them off a little.
But then even though staff members recognized that the probe was off course, they were ignored, and even when it was eventually agreed to fix its trajectory [I]nobody did anything about it[/I].
[QUOTE=Official NASA Statement]"The problem here was not the error, it was the failure of NASA's systems engineering, and the checks and balances in our processes to detect the error. That's why we lost the spacecraft."[/QUOTE]
And no I'm not advocating the use of the Imperial. But punching in pounds of thrust or the coexistence of the systems didn't condemn the probe to death.
[QUOTE=Tomvdr;50708317]14/7/2016 just seems more logical because you could interpret is as "the 14th day of the 7th month of the 2016th year" rather than 7/14/2016 which would interpet as "the 7th month with the 14th day in the 2016th year". But that's just a European's opinion...
Also I think that temperatures in Celsius are just as easy as in Fahrenheit. For me, 25°C is preferred, 30°c is hot, 10°C is cold...[/QUOTE]
Degrees Celsius and Liters seem to be the easiest measurements for most Americans to vaguely estimate. Meters are definitely the hardest, and I think it's because A)Miles and kilometers are too big to really visually compare, and B) there's no metric equivalent to feet (there's decimeters, but nobody uses decimeters for anything, ever) so there's this relatively huge empty space between a centimeter and a meter.
[QUOTE=Aredbomb;50708423]Degrees Celsius and Liters seem to be the easiest measurements for most Americans to vaguely estimate. Meters are definitely the hardest, and I think it's because A)Miles and kilometers are too big to really visually compare, and B) there's no metric equivalent to feet (there's decimeters, but nobody uses decimeters for anything, ever) so there's this relatively huge empty space between a centimeter and a meter.[/QUOTE]
I always compare meters to yards. most people know that a yard is 3 feet and that a meter is vaguely bigger than a yard.
[QUOTE=Sojourner;50708409]What? The Mars Climate Orbiter? It didn't "literally crash because of the imperial system", that's blatant overexaggeration. It was lost due to human error.
NASA [I]required[/I] [B]all[/b] calculations to be metric and they didn't get what they specified. The manufacturer accidentally provided Imperial calculations. A simple mistake that threw them off a little.
But then even though staff members recognized that the probe was off course, they were ignored, and even when it was eventually agreed to fix its trajectory [I]nobody did anything about it[/I].
And no I'm not advocating the use of the Imperial. But punching in pounds of thrust or the coexistence of the systems didn't condemn the probe to death.[/QUOTE]
would the issue have happened if they all worked in metric
[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;50708132]But when you use tools, are the wrenches rated in mm, or inches?
2 1/4 in... even the notation sounds backwards (to me)[/QUOTE]
Most toolboxes have both metric and imperial tools. I know my one does, at least.
I remember helping a friend take out the engine from his VR Commodore. I thought it was funny that a single engine block required both metric and imperial tools to take it apart. Damn Americans.
[QUOTE=Cloak Raider;50708453]would the issue have happened if they all worked in metric[/QUOTE]
It could have. Likewise, it could have happened if they used all Imperial. A lot less likely, of course, but that's not the point.
Again, the major concern is not in the discrepancy between calculations but the fact that the administration couldn't resolve a simple mistake. Which is what that event was.
[QUOTE=Wormy;50708011]Metric is so much better and makes more sense (however I'm saying that as an European so I might be biased).[/QUOTE]
Me and my American friends all hate the imperial system as well, though most of us are engineering/physics students.
Oh yeah and in the talk about DD/MM/YYYY v MM/DD/YYYY, thanks a lot America. Every time I read a date I have to double check and concentrate on it to determine whether it's one or the other. 90% of the time it's the former because Australia is a sensible country, but you get the occasional sneaky latter date posted by an American person or company.
[QUOTE=BigJoeyLemons;50708204]I still see the purpose in using Fahrenheit for temperature. Celsius is measured in relation to water's freezing and boiling points, but Fahrenheit is based more around human perception. 32 degrees is really cold, 100 degrees is really hot. Humans like it right around 70. It's no good for measuring stuff for chemistry or cooking, but for weather? Hell yeah. Why limit our range of temperature to 40 units?[/QUOTE]
what are you talking about? fahrenheit isn't based on our perception at all, it was based on three different set points. Two of which were easy to reproduce chemically and the last one being what they thought was the average body temperature back when it was defined. There is nothing intuitive about it
[QUOTE=ZachPL;50708070]Knowing the day before the month just doesn't make sense.
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its the 14th
only 11 days till christmas!
no it's july
oh you should've said that first[/QUOTE]
lmfao i can tell you right now, this does not happen at all anywhere
also i dont get you americans, you're so opposed something as simple as DD-MM-YYYY but you literally say (for somethings) the "4th of july" which translated is 4/7/YYYY
So you literally already do this, and you know it's the correct way to do shit. Even if you say "July the 4th" the common saying is the 4th of july
or the 18th of september, 9th of august etc
[QUOTE=Grandzeit;50708127]Likely because milligrams already take up the "mg" abbreviation, so it might end up causing confusion.
[del]Sure micrograms also exist, but that's not exactly a frequently encountered unit.[/del] snip dumb[/QUOTE]
But m = milli, M = mega.
1 mg is one milligram,
1 Mg is one megagram.
[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;50708086]For us, it's the other way around. Why would you put the month before the day? It's literally the international ISO notation, just backwards.
DD-MM-YYYY.
Super simple and makes a ton of sense, IMO.[/QUOTE]
I hate any document or program or whatever that lists the month as a number, because you can never figure out if someone's got it DD-MM or MM-DD.
Please never do this. Just write the 3 letter abbreviated version of the month. I could care less if you use DD-MMM or MMM-DD, as long as I can read that shit as 03-JAN or JAN-03, rather than 03-01 and 01-03.
[QUOTE=Octopod;50708006]this fucking game is changing the very fabric of our society[/QUOTE]
HAAA HA HA
TAKE THAT FREEDOM
PUTIN 4EVER
But seriously now, I hate it when people measure shit in feet or in anything imperial.
[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;50708086]For us, it's the other way around. Why would you put the month before the day? It's literally the international ISO notation, just backwards.
DD-MM-YYYY.
Super simple and makes a ton of sense, IMO.[/QUOTE]
the army kinda does this. like today is 14 July 2016
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;50708581]lmfao i can tell you right now, this does not happen at all anywhere
also i dont get you americans, you're so opposed something as simple as DD-MM-YYYY but you literally say (for somethings) the "4th of july" which translated is 4/7/YYYY
So you literally already do this, and you know it's the correct way to do shit. Even if you say "July the 4th" the common saying is the 4th of july
or the 18th of september, 9th of august etc[/QUOTE]
we equally say July 4th. or September 11th. or December 25th. actually we probably use this format more in everyday speak.
[QUOTE=Aetna;50707971]Yes please. As a home diy-er/mechanic, I'd much prefer if standard would fuck off already. Talk about the most convoluted system of measurement.[/QUOTE]
As long as we keep MPH, miles and cubic inches I'd be happy. Too much of a fustercluck to redo all those signs and replace millions of speedos that don't have KPH on them as a secondary scale.
Then again I'm always gonna be working with standard since my favorite vehicles are old enough to be held together with such fasteners.
[quote]To hatch a common Pokémon egg, users must walk two kilometers, and to hatch a rare one, they need to walk five kilometers.[/quote]
wow i had no idea about this, talk about wasted hype
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[QUOTE=TheDrunkenOne;50708010]why are muricans still using imperial anyway? it's a retarded system[/QUOTE]
Because it costs a lot of money to switch over. Even though metric is superior, most engineering companies and such in the USA use imperial, and switching over all of their drawings/specifications/etc to metric when things were already designed in imperial isn't worth all the work from a cost standpoint.
The worst is when baking recipes ask for cups instead of grams.
Like for fuck sake baking is pure science. You need an exact amount
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