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  • And you’re wrong.

    Just because some niche unit uses metric prefixes doesn’t mean that that unit is “in the metric system” as language is used.

    Learn to use language pls.

    Weird how when you open that “metric system” link your pedantry is nowhere to be seen, almost as if by and large “metric” refers to the SI-system, isn’t it? Oh I’m sorry, you can’t answer that with “yes”, because it would mean that you stop pretending like you don’t know what I mean, which you simply can’t do.


  • Lol, you’re the one who’s arguing youre right, despite me clearly stressing that I know that if we’re superanal pedants you could technically make the argument that “metric system” can also refer to non-SI units which use decimal prefixes.

    That a lone doesn’t mean you we’re right. See that “metric system” link there? Give it a click, would you, and then rethink on who’s being pedantic.

    You haven’t told me anything interesting. I’m well aware of things like the attempt of France to change the time to powers a decimal system as well. They didn’t. Time is still in SI-units and that system is colloquially known as THE METRIC SYSTEM.

    Like I said, you’re not exactly wrong, per se. (But you definitely are now, being such an annoying pedant while ignoring the very simple points I made.)
















  • Dasus@lemmy.worldtoGreentext@sh.itjust.worksWear your seatbelt
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    1 month ago

    Having seen some videos of North Americans (sans some Alaskans and Canadians) driving in snow, I wholeheartedly agree.

    This is gonna come off as racist and sexist, but anyway, the day I was on the track, during winter, there was three of us in the car + the teacher. Me, my mate and a muslim woman who hadn’t lived in Finland for too long, and was from a theocratic and patriarchic society. When it was her turn, and the teacher eventually pulled the handbrake just to simulate her losing control… she let go of the wheel, placed her hands on her eyes and started screaming. But she got over it by the end of the day, so…


  • When I was doing my driving licence, here it’s mandatory to visit a a slick course before you get your licence. In summer it’s soap and oil or in the winter its ice and water.

    Anyway, they had this tiny rig. A car seat, but it’s on a rail, but the rail is only some 1m-1.5m (3-5ft) long, and on like a 5-15° angle, but it simulates a dead stop at like 10-20km/h or smth kinda low. And even that was pretty brutal.