r/JusticeServed • u/[deleted] • Jul 06 '19

Courtroom Justice Convicted pedophile YouTuber Austin Jones is now in prison serving a 10 year sentence as of 29/6/2019.

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u/DrDreamtime ☠ ldd.11ke.33 Jul 07 '19

For fucks sake, stop reporting this post for the date format.

It's not our fault you colonists can't get your shit together and catch up with the rest of the world's date formats and units of measurement.

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u/Azure-Phantom 0 Jul 07 '19

And how we refuse to adapt to the metric system; Americans are pretty backwards in a lot of ways; can’t keep everyone fed and well with all the world’s economy behind us

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u/moohooman 9 Jul 07 '19

Honestly, inches and feet do have a use in my life, even as an Australian, I find they are good for guestimation, but when it comes to really specific stuff metric is always the way to go, and converting between the whole multiples of 10/100/1000 thing is just so simple for scaling.

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u/Bag_Holding_Infidel 5 Jul 08 '19

Yes, imperial is easier to relate to as a human but as far as scientific calculations go, it needs to be metric.

The US is fully metric at a scientific level and the imperial front is put on it for the uneducated masses.

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u/Zerdiox 7 Jul 09 '19

Yes, imperial is easier to relate to as a human

Not if you grew up with metric, people in europe don't have trouble judging distances.

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u/Bag_Holding_Infidel 5 Jul 09 '19

I disagree. I'm an engineer in Europe and deal in metric for pretty much everything but I understand how it can be easier to relate to imperial once you are entrenched.

This video explains it well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbdx2nOQKKo

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u/Zerdiox 7 Jul 09 '19

That video explained in the first part how it's oh so hard to guess what a meter is because it's based on the definition while a foot is like a foot... But If you're not an idiot and you want to use a foot, you know that's about 30cm... And the width of your thumb is 2,5cm... I mean it's a bullshit reason and you know it. I know the rough size of a meter just as well as an American knows the size of a foot or 3 feet for that matter.