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Re:International System of Units overhauled in historic vote by toasterlovin on Saturday November 17, 2018 @02:41AM (#18474483)
You comment on HN threads about measurement systems. You are not normal. None of us here are.
Re:International System of Units overhauled in historic vote by kiriakasis on Saturday November 17, 2018 @05:32AM (#18474897)
Nice point, but it is really the typical elementary school topic "one cubic centimeter of water is one gram, one cubic decimeter is one kilograms, one cubic meter is one THOUSAND!!! kilograms" Then in highschool it is used for physics and unit of measurements and everyone knows that you can just weight milk and water when you cook with 1kg = 1liter
Re:International System of Units overhauled in historic vote by toasterlovin on Saturday November 17, 2018 @11:20AM (#18476086)
Normal people don’t do that. They just know that a gallon is a gallon, a meter is a meter, a pound is a pound, etc. People rarely have need to convert between mass and volume. And they don’t weigh their milk or water.
Re:International System of Units overhauled in historic vote by posterboy on Saturday November 17, 2018 @03:45PM (#18477313)
Because if they had to, they'd rather find a jug than a calculator.
Re:International System of Units overhauled in historic vote by toasterlovin on Sunday November 18, 2018 @12:55AM (#18479058)
Also most people (in the US at least) do not have kitchen scales!