Here is a pretty good example why in some cases “middleground” “compromise” can be worse than either extreme.

Very nice. Now let’s see Canada’s business card measurement flowchart.

Tonnes? Do they mean megagrams?

As an American I’ve been metricating rather than just waiting for my country to get on board and it’s not as hard as I’d expected. Everyone in my life hates that I’m doing it but I’m liking it

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The U.S.'s flowchart is pretty complicated, too.

We sell soda in 20oz, 1L, and 2L bottles, or 12 ounce cans. Fountain drinks are measured in ounces.

Wine and liquor are sold in 750ml bottles (and other larger format bottles measured in liters), but individual servings are generally measured in ounces.

Our bullets/ammunition are also mixed, probably because we did standardize our military on NATO standards, but also love our legacy calibers and have a bunch of calibers that aren’t used in the military.

And the U.S. isn’t unique in having a bunch of ways to measure energy (joules, calories, kilowatt hours, therms, BTUs), but we’re somewhat unique in having too many ways to measure power (watts, BTUs/hr, horsepower).

no no don’t look at us focus back on america

in all seriousness it gets worse when you consider age then the one for are you weighing people needs another split for are you under 40 split for metric and imperial also cows milk can be litres too if it’s lacto free or organic speed is also tracked in kmph for bikes I think though not sure my bike defaulted to that though had to fix it to mph cause I couldn’t understand it distance might have an age split too as I think of distance in kilometres but I know my gramie thinks in miles but I don’t know on that but I know there was a study that showed the split between age groups on weight of people that showed 30 but it was a bit ago not sure how long so I just said 40 the road signs are in miles and yards so maybe it’s a driver vs not thing

also canada’s even more disgusting atleast we’re consistent on celsius canada changes between fahrenheit and celsius for different things

This is the reason I set my phone’s language to Irish English… I needed an English language option that uses sane measurements for everything.

Whoever made this seems to think tonnes are Imperial…? Isn’t a ton basically just a megagram? Or am I confused?

I heard UK buys liters but but measures mileage in miles per gallon. Is that true?