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American recipes are annoying (lemm.ee)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I thought Americans loved their fractions too much for those numbers.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The only ones who like fractions are carpenters. If you bring fractions into a machine shop then you're going to get a wrench hucked at you. Mechanics on the other hand keep the peace using fractions for fasteners and decimals for tolerances.

[–] captain_aggravated 2 points 4 days ago

I'm on record multiple times on this platform saying I prefer to work in fractional inches in the wood shop specifically. It's well suited to the tasks you end up actually doing while building furniture. If you wanted me to build a car, I'd do it in metric.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Ok, I think I was still thinking about recipes but that is still way more than I'm used to and so arbitrary.