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Re:Every American Car Brand Is on the Bottom Half of CR's Re... by thedaemon on Monday November 11, 2019 @04:52PM (#21509283)
Yeah, we all see metric on the items we buy. None of us understand what that means. We understand 1 Gallon, not 3.785411784 L.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units

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Re:Every American Car Brand Is on the Bottom Half of CR's Re... by kube-system on Monday November 11, 2019 @05:03PM (#21509382)
To the contrary, I've seen 3.8L or 3.78L written on every gallon jug for my entire lifetime. I know that conversion off the top of my head... even before I had mandatory science classes where I formally learned the same.

But even if you haven't read any of the text on a milk jug over the past half-century, surely you've seen one of these before?:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71x5rVYbJUL...

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Re:Every American Car Brand Is on the Bottom Half of CR's Re... by mattlondon on Monday November 11, 2019 @06:50PM (#21510173)
They said the same thing here in the UK years ago (the 90s I think) when they started forcing labels on food to have metric.

"I want a pound of sugar, not 453g!"

Turns out the world didn't actually burn down. The containers mostly stayed the same size, but I think they slowly gravitated towards logical sizes (so e.g. that 453g package became 500g or 400g at some point)

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