Unlike with longer distances and temperature, Americans don't strictly use imperial for shorter distances (m, cm, mm). It's on all of the signs and stuff, but we learn metric in school as well as how to convert to and from. In university-level physics classes, they almost solely use metric. So as an American myself, I didn't bat an eye at him using meters. But if they said that it was 30C outside...
It helps that meters and yards are very similar in size. Of course they drift as the distances get larger but in my mind 300m is a pretty reasonable thing to visualize. Just a tad larger than 300yd—about 3 football fields (Inb4 stereotype)
Km though? I still struggle to compare it to a mile. When someone says "50km" my mind has a hard time imperializing it. What's that, like 35 miles?
Maybe memorizing how the km lines up with the mi on my car speedometer would help.
I guess as long as it works it works. I don't have to do much of those conversions though. Here in Norway we are metric in almost all of our measurements. Except for some specialist measures like a carton of eggs is a dozen. We often say things happened a fortnight or so ago, etc.
Lemmy has no chill lol. We might even be more prudish than Reddit. My guess is our demographic skews older so people here don't care for "dank" content as much.
Or just maybe people don't like going on their social media to be blasted by slurs and porn. Sometimes we just want the funky little guys to post funky little things y' know
Sounds like a failure to set good expectations. Sure there are times people just don't listen, but if everyone else is saying this kind of thing, maybe there's a common factor...
Idk man my parents were always dragging me to shit I didn't want to go to when I was younger. Yeah I knew beforehand what it was but it's more of a "we're doing this" rather than a "do you want to do this?"
Everything is possible in Fantasyland that happens exclusively in your brain.
Why does it make more sense to assume his entire family for some reason drove out there without listening than that he never told them what it's about in the first place?
Agreed. I respect nature and it's beauty but I've never understood hiking.
Best I was every personally motivated to do was climb to The old Man of Storr on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. 5km round trip. Worth it, but cold, raining and very windy the whole.steep-ass way up and down. My wife went 100m up with me and said "Fuck this" and turned around so I ended up doing it alone.
Claims to be in the American wilderness
uses Metric
Some Americans do see sense.
South Americans.
Every red white and blue blooded American uses the foot!
Well you gotta use both feet if you're going hiking
JUST ONE FOOT YOU COMMIE
Perhaps lost some.
Unlike with longer distances and temperature, Americans don't strictly use imperial for shorter distances (m, cm, mm). It's on all of the signs and stuff, but we learn metric in school as well as how to convert to and from. In university-level physics classes, they almost solely use metric. So as an American myself, I didn't bat an eye at him using meters. But if they said that it was 30C outside...
It helps that meters and yards are very similar in size. Of course they drift as the distances get larger but in my mind 300m is a pretty reasonable thing to visualize. Just a tad larger than 300yd—about 3 football fields (Inb4 stereotype)
Km though? I still struggle to compare it to a mile. When someone says "50km" my mind has a hard time imperializing it. What's that, like 35 miles?
Maybe memorizing how the km lines up with the mi on my car speedometer would help.
50km is about 30 miles. An easy way to remember if you're into fast cars is 0-60mph =~ 0-100kph
think fibonacci sequence and you're in good shape
34 comes before 55, then 3 comes before 5, so 50 km is (55-5) km = (34-3) mi = 31. It works shockingly well
This is so incredibly much complicated to me than just multiplying or dividing by 1.6.
And also 55 km is 34 miles, not 31. I had to run it through a converter tool just to be sure.
Edit: I reread your comment. The goal was 50 kilometers. Then the math checks out. Sorry!
just multiplying or dividing by 1.6 is about as accurate as my strategy in the other direction - the real value is almost exactly between them.
I guess as long as it works it works. I don't have to do much of those conversions though. Here in Norway we are metric in almost all of our measurements. Except for some specialist measures like a carton of eggs is a dozen. We often say things happened a fortnight or so ago, etc.
31 miles.
Personally know several metric nuts who insist on using metric in their day-to-day life.
Well, a metric nut would be screwed trying to go imperial...
"Metric nut" sounds like there's a measurement to their insanity in the metric system
A 12mm nut.
For the Americans: that's 0.00005965 furlongs.
also called M12-nut
I find metric nuts and bolts are much easier to acquire cheaply
On holiday?
A big chunk (a majority?) of the North American wilderness is in countries that use metric.
No Canadian would go into the wilderness and say they went into the American wilderness…
Maybe they went to Detroit?
They can use the word “American” when they join us.
Ever heard of a vacation?
How many inches is that?
Family has never walked 300m
American
I swear yal post/upvote the most normie greentexts. Where's the crazy off the wall shit?
On 4chan
The crazy ones I've posted get downvoted to hell. People seem to equate laughing at Anon with supporting whatever craziness Anon has written.
Lemmy has no chill lol. We might even be more prudish than Reddit. My guess is our demographic skews older so people here don't care for "dank" content as much.
Almost ever community is way too serious. They need to remove the stick from their ass.
Or just maybe people don't like going on their social media to be blasted by slurs and porn. Sometimes we just want the funky little guys to post funky little things y' know
Yeah, lemmy is a strange audience
Sounds like a failure to set good expectations. Sure there are times people just don't listen, but if everyone else is saying this kind of thing, maybe there's a common factor...
Maybe. On the other hand, 300m takes about 3-4 minutes, so you'd have to wonder about what the expectations were.
The best way to find people to go on hikes with is on hikes
Also good way to find psychopaths
I despise 99% of scp but that sounds like a fun idea for one.
I'm fat and lazy and still love hiking. I'd pull on my hiking boots and join in a heartbeat.
I'm neither and I love hiking but there's no such thing as a beautiful marshland tbh
Couldn't you have just asked beforehand though.
Idk man my parents were always dragging me to shit I didn't want to go to when I was younger. Yeah I knew beforehand what it was but it's more of a "we're doing this" rather than a "do you want to do this?"
(One of them is near fucking 30, btw)
Plot twist: the nearly fucking 30 was really just 16 (as in closer to 30 than 0)
Everything is possible in Fantasyland that happens exclusively in your brain.
Why does it make more sense to assume his entire family for some reason drove out there without listening than that he never told them what it's about in the first place?
How does a "mystery ride" make sense when it's for a hike?
Annon's family is pathetic.
Wish I could go with you
Lemmy hiking club when?
I would join a 4chan hiking club too but out of sheer curiosity alone.
Wta plug. Find one for your area.
I hate hiking. I just don't get it, it's boring
Agreed. I respect nature and it's beauty but I've never understood hiking.
Best I was every personally motivated to do was climb to The old Man of Storr on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. 5km round trip. Worth it, but cold, raining and very windy the whole.steep-ass way up and down. My wife went 100m up with me and said "Fuck this" and turned around so I ended up doing it alone.