The red squiggly underlines make me sad.
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Screenshooting a Word document is utterly disgusting.
Absolutely! It should be an OpenDocument Spreadsheet
Screenshooting, lol.
I’m an American and I approve this message.
Go to sleep!
I just awoke from 21ks of sleep.
This just made me think, why haven't those damn commie Europeans with their fancy metric system come up with a better system for measuring time yet?
People like to talk a lot of shit about how subjective the definitions for an inch or a mile are, but I never hear complaints about how a second or an hour are antiquated and based on things that only make sense from an Earth-centric point of view.
I just feel like someone be mad at Americans for still using hours (ugh, trivially decided on the amount of time it takes the Earth to rotate) and not something like the amount of time it takes for 1 kilogram of water to decay via natural radiation when under a vacuum.
By the way, before downvoting, this post is heavy with /s in case it wasn't obvious.
Edit: I just looked up the formal definition of a second and it is "the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom".
It's all so arbitrary is funny. People get so passionate, but then I'll bring up,"Why aren't we using Swatch Time?" Or, why don't we have 13 months of exactly 28 days (With a bonus vacation day or two)?
They'll usually fall back on what people are used to or tradition or something that just supports staying on imperial measurements. To be clear, I don't give a shit what measurement system is used. It's not like it takes a big brain to figure out what is going on when you travel.
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Measures weren't standard before the french revolution, so picking something and getting buy-in was easy. Time keeping was well established, and the French moved to a metric calendar, and proposals for metric time were made, but all were eventually rejected.
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God, I wish we used this here. It is such a better system than our system of potholes being measured in washing machines in some parts of the country.
Me head has a dent the size of two small pollocks, or a couple elderly bonobo tits, if you like.
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American who just woke up... upvote cuz metric
Downvote cuz screenshot, and SWAT OP cuz Word.
The list isn't even complete 
Should have been millo, cento, deco, hecta and kila instead of milli, centi, deci, hecto, and kilo.
And kilo should have been K nit k, and all should have matching characters not k-m, M-μ, G-n, T-p, P-f, E-a.
Only Z-z, Y-y, Q-q, R-r are nice.
μ is probably the greatest sin as it isn't present on way too many keyboard layouts.
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Where are the metric units? All I see is prefixes explained
My sibling in Satan, that's the backbone of the metric system. Nobody said anything about units.
Gotcha, so we're talking kilotons and microinches then?
Or is it actually the units that make the metric system scary to Americans?
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To further add to this, a unit would be something basic like litre, metre, or a gram. So 1000 litres is a kilolitre. 1000 metres is a kilometre. 1000 grams is a kilogram. You may be familiar with the computer byte. A kilobyte is 1000 bytes. A megabyte is 1000 of those. Everything is divisible by 10, and everything makes sense.
Interestingly, even though a calorie isn’t a metric unit (the joule is), the energy to raise 1 millilitre of water by 1 degree Celsius is 1 calorie.
Also, 1 gram of water is 1 millilitre. And if you measure that in size, that’s 1 cubic centimetre. So if you go buy a litre of water, you know it’ll be 1000 cubic centimetres, and it’ll weight 1kg.
Joke's on you; I'm an insomniac.
And FWIW we use the metric system too. We just tend to mix it with US Customary, like how Canada and The UK does with Metric and Imperial. Except the UK uses more Metric than Imperial. Vice versa for the US. Food is sold using both. Science and computing are always in Metric. And a few other things too but it's 4am and I'm too tired to think.
Edit: I don't even know how a CPU's temperature translates to Fahrenheit, but for weather it makes perfect sense. I know that 100°F is hot for outside, and that 80°C is hot for a processor. But I couldn't tell you what is what if you swapped the measurements.
If you'd swap those, your CPU would be super cool and outside would be deadly.
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nooooo my teaspoon measurements!
It's just prefixes, you can use decateaspoons if you want.
Those are tablespoons!
US, UK, Canadian or metric teaspoon? It's all different measurements.
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Sleep deprived Canadian approves.
This isn’t the metric system.
This is wrong. Some identifiers should start with a lowercase letter (like kilo)
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And then there're the Americans who point at the Metric system and scream "why not us". Which is anyone who's sane and not afraid of change.
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Damn, I did 2 years of physics studies but I never heard about atto and exa. Though I did spend a lot of time to try to memorise the other ones.
Just wait until you hear about zetta (10^21) and yotta (10^24) and their inverses zepto (10^-21) and yocto (10^-24). :D
Huh, neat! When fact-checking my statement, I just learned that there are even two more prefixes on each side of the scale: ronna (10^27), quenna (10^30), ronto (10^-27) and quecto (10^-30). They got added last year.
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American here up voting because sane measurements.
It's just so confusing, the American system is so much better /s
As an American, I upvoted.
Edit: Wait, why am I awake at 5am?
American expat upvoting for science
I wait to the day the US rejects the metric completely, and invents a new system for Voltage measurement (proposed unit names: cell, shock, spark).
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it's beautiful
Those sexy sexy parabolas
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