• Mr_Blott@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Native English speaker, my apologies for being bilingual

    I default to that which most people understand. That doesn’t include pedal extremities

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      1 year ago

      The foot isn’t an SI unit, but the US influence on the internet and social media as a whole means it isn’t some obscure unheard of unit. Besides, the foot has been defined by SI units for a while now, and the survey foot being done away with makes it publically official. It’s just a conversion factor.

      Then again being that pedantic is totally a reddit thing, so it’s good to see that hasn’t been lost in the migration.

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          1 year ago

          So the US has no influence on the internet or social media? In denial much?

          Realize here my argument is that the US is some exceptional example of a country, the literal definition of exceptionalism, but there is enough influence for the general internet population to understand what a foot is. Just like how I know what a stone is without the UK being some exceptional utopia. If someone says they weight 12 stone I convert in my head and go about my day.

          But hey. this all started when someone said 15m2 was larger than a parking spot. I said no and showed my work. The units I used were irrelevant. This whole tangent is your own pedantry.

          EDIT: For those curious, Mr_Blott deleted his reply that called my comment on the US having an influence on the internet US exceptionalism, and that should have been lost in the migration.