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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree with this because if you were to say the whole thing verbally, you generally start with the day, the month then the year.

"It is the 9th of August in the year of our Lord 2023."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We wouldn't in America in most cases. I'd say it's August 9th 2023. I honestly feel like this is such a dumb argument to have because it doesn't matter except for communication with people who use other methods. Now metric vs imperial makes way more sense to me because the metric system is just so much easier for mathematical conversions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade—which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it. Whereas in the American system, the answer to ‘How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?’ is ‘Go fuck yourself,’ because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities.