Pour one out for pre-shittified MEC.

I have my library card from 1991 still.

hahah, there’s a small deli up the road and the same guy runs the counter most of the time.

With a little care and the right funnel, it’s not too bad. I love my canning funnel for mason jars.

True that, especially as they shrinkflate it. A chocolate bar is usually 50-60g these days. Used to be 71g as I was a kid. Gee I wonder where that number came from…

I’ve heard that one of the reasons that metrification didn’t take off in the States was that when they converted highway signs, they rounded down instead of up, so people got mad at “losing” a couple km/h. Tactical error, there.

yeah, a duodecimal metric system would have been better. Still, it’s more important to have a standard system than it is for it to be ideal. It’s the strongest argument for US customary system within the USA, as well - but that argument breaks down when you widen the scope to the world.

In the 18th century context, and its dozens of competing measurement systems, something like the metric system was sorely needed just for standardization. We’re just lucky that it was something more or less sensible. Had the US customary system won out, I think we’d be objectively worse off.

So it could have been better, but it could also have been MUCH much much worse.

In any context where it’s important, you’d note it with +/-. Not really a problem.

I guess there’s nothing wrong with saying 1/8th metre, 1/8th centimetre, 15/16th metre either. Just as some people might use 0.356 inches.

It is a stalemate that Russia could end in days by withdrawing from Ukrainian territory. Ukraine can only end it by dissolving or winning.

0.625 implies your measurement is precise to the nearest thousandth

It does. If it were precise to less than that, you’d say 0.62 or 0.6 to indicate hundredths or tenths. Why would you say 0.625 if you’re not precise to thousandths? You’d say 0.62500 if you wanted to indicate precision to hundred-thousandths.

“The fraction allows you to communicate length and tolerance in a single number”

I don’t see how that isn’t true of decimals, too. 0.1 indicates a precision of 1 digit, 0.12 indicates a precision of 2, 0.120 indicates a precision of three.

At least it’s contained. Not too bad a spill. Pour it back into the bottle and you’re pretty much good.

I had a running gag once with my cheese guy where i would order in hectograms. I probably found it more amusing than he did.

It is a very tepid temperature for tea.

You really recognize these weirdly precise numbers in packaging.

355ml. 454g. 25.4mm.

Yeah, suuuuure your chocolate bar is precise to 3 sig figs…

This hurts my brain. Why do we care about all the weird fractions? +/- 0.1 is just another way of saying 1/10. You can still do that if you want without having to do fraction math in random denominators.

Responsible, sensible, reasonable, commonsensical, yes. Cool, not really…

In what country is barley not a common ingredient? Do they not really use it in the USA?

That’s about the going rate for desktop support here, in CAD. I know it’s more in the US, but they have to pay for more stuff.

I do like this idea as a daily or weekly challenge.

Might need to be constrained with a standardized list of pantry items.

An Italian kitchen in 1850 would!