Scary

Tax-funded health care. Making sure crazy people can't buy machine guns. Voting for reasonable candidates.

You forgot that only a good guy with a gun-safe filled with AR-15s can stop a bad guy with a glock

Aaaand ... DD/MM/YYYY 🫠

YYYY-MM-DD
As much as I vehemently dislike US customary units, MM/DD/YYYY is the USA's greatest notation crime.
This one wouldn't make sense as they say dates as month day, year.
To me, dates should always be written in international format: YYYY-MM-DD
- $ 50
  Do you call this fifty dollars, or dollar fifty?
  Lots of stuff is written differently, than it is spoken. In case of the date it is weird, not to go from biggest to smallest or vice versa. I guess you are used to it now, but for me it would be the same as putting seconds before minutes or inches before feet.
- Depends on context, IMO did/mm/yyyy is the most natural when writing some text, but partial ISO yyyy-mm-dd is ideal for when naming files and directories, makes lexicographical ordering follow chronological order.
- Big-endian vs little-endian all over again
- I personally prefer dd-mm-yyyy because cutting stuff of the end to get dd-mm or dd is better imho. Just an opinion tho, use what you like.

The only properly measured thing Americans bring to their schools is 9mm's 😔

Categorically false. They also bring 5.56x40mm.
- Not in California though. You can own it, but you can't buy nor shoot 5.56 or .223 on BLM or CA owned land. They're also in the courts (appeals) to ban Assault rifles in the state.
.9mm mechancal pencils (.7 breaks too easy)
- I used .5mm, never had a problem with the lead breaking

As an American, I can confidently say I'm sick of this Imperial/SAE shit.

Length, volume and mass specifically (and derivatives, like PSI). Temperature is ok.
- As a celsius user I have absolutely no need for fahrenheit. It needs more numbers when there is no need for more precision. Half a degree C is barely even noticable.
- Same, Fahrenheit rules.
  Edit: Fahrenheit kicks ass, I just love it.
  Edit: Sorry, still like it a lot.
  Edit: I just love the scale.
  Edit: Random thought, Fahrenheit is really great. I enjoy it and will continue to use it alongside metic units.

What really grinds my gears - literally - is having to have two sets of sockets because America. It's really gets annoying when you lose your 10mm socket and the other one isn't quite right, but you can't work out is 18/32s is close enough and then you bust a nut.

I just hate the fact if 10mm is too big, I can get 9mm, but if 15/16 is too big, fuck me, I guess. Bringing the full toolbox over because what random fucking bullshit number comes before it?
Like I'm here to fix shit, not do math to figure out which socket is one size smaller.
- Have you tried with √0,86?
I just read that as "socks", which made the last sentence really weird
American cars have been using both metric and SAE fasteners since at least the 1980's. I wish they would just gone all metric so I wouldn't have to drag out two socket sets anytime I need to do anything.

You know what pissed me off earlier this year? We took a trip from the U.S. to Canada and my Prius didn't even have the option to show kmph instead of mph on the dashboard. We looked through the manual, we looked online. My specific model doesn't allow it. Why?!

Because freedom 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🦅🦅
LifeProTip glue pocket calculator to steering wheel for these urgent conversions on the road
- There's like five common speed limits to memorise the conversions for. It's not hard.

World work better with "socialism." Because screw capitalism.

Or gun control. Or free healthcare. Or abortion. Or a free online automated tax return system.
- or public transport, ending the war on drugs, LGBTQ+ rights, fixing climate change, eating less meat, funding education, non-predatory student loans, living wage, affordable homes, ending slavery in prisons, ending corporations as people, ending super PACs and lobbying, and establishing ranked choice voting or even basic democratic concepts as one-man-one-vote.

Except in drug deals (kg), foot races (5km), and science (°C).

And school supplies (9mm)
Yeah, everyone shits on the US for this but we do science in metric, and also everyone seems to ignore that the UK is all kinds of fucked up as well-- weight in stone, etc. I'd also argue that outside science F is a better scale for talking about weather. Sure 0 makes for a better freezing point, but most temps on inhabited earth are about 0_{100 F or -25}40 C. If you knew nothing about F or C and someone asked if a scale from 0 to 100 or -25 to 40 made more sense, which one do you think most people would pick?
- -25 to 40 is very useful for weather. Especially in a northern country. The only reason they don't switch is "best country in the world" delusions they've been fed to believe is true since birth.

Oh! Oh! Try "Paid maternity leave!"

America is totally used to the KKK

@burgers if metric sucks so bad why do you use it for your guns

oooh, shots fired
We mostly don't, neither do you.
Caliber is decimalized inches
Gauge is 1.67 over the cube root of the diameter in inches. Technically it's derived from lbs since the number refers to the number of lead balls the width of the barrel you'd need to equal 1 lb. Eg, a 12 gauge is the width of a 1/12th lb ball of lead.
- who is calling a 9mm a 00 gauge

Arma players are more at home with km than miles because they never leave the basement to use it irl

(jk I am that guy)

me to imperial measurements: i am going to kill you

Fuck, you scared me!

Y'all are just jealous because we're not afraid of fractions

Europeans acting smug like knowing how close to boiling the temperature is is more important than knowing how close to 100% hot out the temperature is.

100% hot out
what does that even mean?
- It's 100% "me" hot out?
- 100°F is roughly (like really roughly) the hottest temp your likely to see in most temperate climates throughout a year. 0°F is(again really roughly) the lowest. The result is you can use Fahrenheit basically as a percentage, or a 0 to 100 temperature score to help you decide how to dress/prepare for the day. If the temperature is above or below 100 or 0 then you need to consider fairly serious precautions before going outside for any length of time.
  It's not a very precise system at all, and it obviously has no place in a laboratory or similar situation. But it does work quite well for communicating the weather to common people. There is very little desire among Americans to change to Celsius not because they don't understand it (we're all taught Celsius in grade school) but because Fahrenheit serves most people's needs perfectly adequately.
  OP is also arguing that easily recalling the boiling temperature of water (one of the big purported advantages of Celsius) is useless for most people as nobody actually measures the temperature of water while boiling it. Except, maybe, in a classroom, probably while demonstrating to children how the Celsius scale works.
- If it's 0 F, it's 0% hot out. If it's 50 F, it's 50% hot out, if it's 100F, it's 100% hot out.
  It's a more human measurement. Who the hell knows how long a kilometer or meter is? Everyone knows what a football field looks like and a yard is 1/100th of it.
Kinda ironic seeing somebody from hexbear defend imperial units.
100% hot
The what now
- The hottest a specific person believed in. Obviously never visited $countryThatGetsHotter

Nah, in Dutch it's meter (plural: meters) too
spelling is hard why make it harder by spelling it "metres"
- To help distinguish metre, as in length, from a meter, as in volt-meter.
They are one of the founding members of the Metre Convention
Well how would I know if they teach me it's meters and not metres, hmm?

This feels like projection to me.

Well, there is basically only one country that has been too afraid to change from its archaic measurement system to the internationally agreed upon standard.
- 3 actually, and it's not a good group.. And I'd like to say that most Americans actually support the idea of switching, but as a stubborn guy who uses metric for everything here I can sadly say that they are not by a long shot.
You know how to push peoples buttons

Idk I get through life fine without all that. Never understood why people care so much.