A guide to correct metric system usage.
Grandmother, great grandmother, 8 million people: ❌WRONG, UNMODERN
Kilomother, megamother, 8 megamen: ✅thats more like it

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A guide to correct metric system usage.
Grandmother, great grandmother, 8 million people: ❌WRONG, UNMODERN
Kilomother, megamother, 8 megamen: ✅thats more like it
New Learnt: Metrication
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Happy Mendenhall Order Day! 123 years ago, the US Office of Weights and Measures changed the fundamental standards of length and mass of the United States from the customary standards based on those of England to metric standards. This was a de juris change to reflect the de facto change already in place.
Why the change? US Customary was based on British Imperial, and the Imperial standards were destroyed in a fire. The replacements were unstable and shrunk. Those who needed accurate measurements just went with metric.
Metric was, of course, created in 1795 with input from Franklin and Jefferson. Later in 1959, the US Customary measurements were redefined in terms of metric. But we’re still stuck with measuring things based on the size of barleycorns and divided into 12 units because of the Romans (who maybe derived it from a base 60 system started by Sumeria) because ‘Murica. At least we share it in common with Liberia, the country Americans created to send Blacks Freed Slaves back to Africa because they’d be more “comfortable” there.
Me: Meters! Americans: *gasp* Me: Celsius! Americans: What are you saying?! Me: KILOGRAMS Americans: *screaming*
our technological leaders have built these tools in a way that explicitly promotes the idea that one’s follower count is the score we keep, the metric that matters. After more than a decade of having that lesson amplified across the Internet, the billion or so people who rely on online social networks have taken the message to heart
Nobody Famous — The Message — Medium
Это блог 60-летнего американского мужика, который проработал всю жизнь руками на разных работах и пришел к выводу, что старая система мер, широко используемая сейчас в США является очень неудобной, и что Штатам следует полностью перейти на метрическую систему, как это сделали все цивилизованные страны. Он приводит множество жизненных примеров, углубляется в историю попыток метрикации страны, пытаясь прояснить почему метрикация до сих пор не произошла.
Вывод, который я вынес из чтения этого блога: любое введение чего-то нового вместо старого не должно быть слишком постепенным. Надо дать людям привыкнуть к мысли, что переход будет совершен, успеть их хорошо проинформировать, но сам переход должен произойти бесповоротно в один день. Всё, после «дня X» используем только новое, иначе будем штрафовать/не разрешим работать.
Иначе старая система так и будет использоваться, а новая хорошо если приживется частично. Да и руководство может успеть смениться и отложить переход еще дальше.
The job title of “data scientist” has been invented with this maneuver in mind: a masculine and prestige-boosting rebranding of a type of work that asserts the value of a commodity and elevates the work to a respected status: science. If data analysis in business is a science, in domestic life, it is a working practice - perhaps even a common art
Quantify Everything: A Dream of a Feminist Data Future, by Amelia Abreu | Model View Culture