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alt-textIt blows our hivemind that the United States doesn't use the ISO 216 paper size standard (A4, A5 and the gang).

Like, we consider ourselves worldly people and are aware of America's little idiosyncrasies like mass incarceration, the widespread availability of assault weapons and not being able to transfer money via your banking app, but come on - look how absolutely great it is to be European:

The American mind cannot comprehend this diagram

[Diagram of paper sizes as listed below]

ISO 216 A series papers formats

AO

A1

A3

A5

A7

A6

Et.

A4

Instead, Americans prostrate themselves to bizarrely-named paper types of seemingly random size: Letter, Legal, Tabloid (Ledger) and all other types of sordid nonsense. We're not even going to include a picture because this is a family-friendly finance blog.

Source: Financial Times

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What NA does not do this what the fuck, backwards ass country in so many ways.

[โ€“] brbposting 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Right but this is definitely the most prominent & important reason

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

dude devastated americans xD

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (18 children)

To be fair, A4 yields unwieldy pages that are too long to comfortably read. And when do you ever need the feature to fold an A4 sheet into A5?

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Lmao, it does not.

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