You’ve unlocked: the number 10
Bro 10mm rounds exist
Here’s the funny thing. A 9mm is closer to a cm. The rim is 9.96mm.
.40 S&W and 10mm auto are both 10mm rounds!
.40 S&W and 10mm auto are both 10mm rounds!
I don’t trust you, stranger number man! And the above… well that just proves there’s a conspiracy!
Brah, does stranger danger apply to the metric system??
Oh my, yes!
Yeah but they’re not interchangeable.
Can US people imagine their size in a whim?
Probably not. It’s a fairly rare round outside of fallout.
We can’t imagine 9mm on a whim either.
I always thought it was cheeky that a lot of pistols in Fallout take 10mm ammo.
10mm ammo is a real thing, tho
And is expensive as fuck. As is the downgrade, .40 cal.
Maybe it’s changed since I last had to purchase any, but it was twice as expensive as .45 bullets, and the guns always seemed subpar to other calibers anyway.
Ah, good to know.
Tbf 10mm Auto is a real caliber (that the FBI tried to use but “it hurted their wrists” so .40SW was invented.)
https://www.ammunitiondepot.com/3212-magtech-10mm-180-gr-fmj.html
SW stands for Soft Wankers.
Sore wrists
LOL it might as well since their weak ass wrists couldn’t take it!
(For those who are wondering it’s of course actually “Smith & Wesson.”)
Ah, yes, that also makes sense.
Centimeters are on the American ruler…
We also put inches on ours, yet not a single soul has ever used that side. I think it’s only to constantly remind us we are superior ;)
Screens are measured in inches
cries in American inferiority
Were taught to think in inches at fashion design school.
Most people by far don’t attend fashion design school.
Yeah Stormy said it was only a centimeter
The only thing on a real American ruler is red white and blue .
I thought he is orange
His preferred title is typically translated as “leader” not “ruler” that’s got monarchist elements that they can’t quite make stick yet
You can’t rule a country off a cliff, only lead.
“Anything but the metric system”… Well kinda
The metric system, but with extra steps.
5 cm is 1.9685 inches, which is about weeee big…. 🤏
Or one LLAP 🖖
I use the metric system for almost all of my projects. I’ve never seen a 3d printer that used the english system and after a decade of use I really hate the english system.
I wonder, when they get a grown-up president again, will they finally also begin to move to the 21st century?
You’re being way too optimistic
Again???
A system of measurement in which something like 15/16 of an inch is seen as a sensible way to measure a small distance. Not much else to say.
I love love love that we use ounces for both weight and volume 🤩 I love love love that we use volume for measuring things like sour cream in recipes but weight in the store! America number 1!!! 🇨🇱
Its about 40 caliber.
How many grain?
As an American mechanical engineer, i do more unit conversions between metric and standard/ uscs than many people do in a lifetime
Hell just today I designed a custom spring in both as i need it asap and have to settle for the inch
We occasionally get engineering diagrams from clients in the US and they’re always going on about screws that are 2/3 of an inch long. It’s not just that you’re not using metric you’re using a weird fraction and not a decimal.
It’s super confusing when you get into high precision stuff because then they start going on about 128th of an inch. Just tell me how big you want it, stop telling me what fraction of a different measurement it is. Surely there is something below inch that you could use. I still wouldn’t know what you were talking about, but at least it would look less stupid when you wrote it down.
Isn’t the UK just as bad? You have a zoo of units over there. Stone, miles, pints, etc.
The US is the only country that uses non-metric units when doing anything industrial though. I might buy a pint of milk but I’m not going to measure in anything but metres and centimetres.
This is fair. I see no reason to drop feet and inches for day to day use but I’d consider it scandalous if I saw an astronomer using anything but a meter
Canadian engineer here. Although we use the metric system in principle, in reality we use feet and inches for everything. There are lots of benefits to using base 12 for measurements.
The number 12 has six factors, which are 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 12. It is the smallest number to have six factors, the largest number to have at least half of the numbers below it as divisors, and is only slightly larger than 10. (The numbers 18 and 20 also have six factors but are much larger.) Ten, in contrast, only has four factors, which are 1, 2, 5, and 10.
I get the Europeans hate it though because only the people who live near Chernobyl can count to 12 on their fingers.
I know it’ll never happen but I’m still camp duodecimal, all the way.
There are lots of benefits to using base 12 for measurements.
12 is better than 10, I’ll give you that. But 100 is better than 144, and 1000 is way better than 1728.
And that doesn’t even get to 0.1 versus 1/12, or 0.01 versus 1/144.
So 12 might be a better standalone number, but it’s a terrible base to work in.
But 144 is better than 100, for the exact same reason that 12 is better than 10?
There’s a reason measured angles go to 360ths, then subdivided by 60 or even by 60 again.
100 is as terrible a base as 10, and you run into it all the time if you’re designing something in metric; you can’t divide by 3 evenly.
The thing is that outside of North America people aren’t terrified to death of decimals. We actually use them and find the process simple. So those factors of yours are completely irrelevant to us.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duodecimal
Sounds like your terrified of duodecimals. Base 12 number systems are better at somethings than base 10 and a number of mathematicians believe it’s a superior number system all round and easier to teach to young people. And metric would work equally well in theory with either base 10 or base 12.
The Americans could’ve changed to the metric system if they could afford it. However, changing a country’s systems of measurement is a mammoth project of enormous complexity and cost, so I guess no politician want to make space for that in the budget when there are other things to take care of.
Maybe people will forget about the epstein files if he tries changing to metric
Rest of the world when people have different cultures: >:(
People just don’t really care enough to. And we already use the metric system in science, engineering, medicine, aerospace, military, and any science class in high school or higher. So what if our road signs and cookbooks are in imperial units.
Recipes being imperial is the dumbest thing ever and I always convert mine. “Two cups and one tablespoon flour” statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged. I will defend feet/inches though for very specific cases where you may be dividing something into thirds like sometimes with woodworking
when you put it like that we’re pretty much on par with the UK’s adoption of metric
UK merchants must list their prices in metric
