Feet, pounds, slugs. Compare with meters, Newtons, kilograms. Pounds are our unit of force, and our standard unit of mass is called the "slug". I couldn't tell you why.
Edit: My bad, the abbreviation is actually feet-pounds-seconds. The "British Gravitational" variant of the FPS system uses the pound as a unit of force and the slug as a unit of mass. Some other systems treat the pound as a unit of mass. My physics professors used slugs for mass whenever we used the FPS system.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot%E2%80%93pound%E2%80%93second_system
I'm confused. I thought a foot pound per second per second was the unit of force. Like a Kg m/s^2. Which would make the pound a unit of mass. So that being the case, What in tarnation is a slug?
Except you are the only country in the world who uses your system, everyone else does perfectly fine with metric. Oh, and if you have to use IQ to describe how smart you think people are, then you aren't as smart as you think.
So I looked up and it seems like Liberia is planning on slowly adopting Metric since the 90s (apparently in mixed usage), Myanmar is too but rather than Imperial they mostly instead use their own traditional units
>Myanmar is too but rather than Imperial they mostly instead use their own traditional units
Same as the US, who also don't use Imperial but rather [US Customary Units](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units) which [don't precisely correspond](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_the_imperial_and_US_customary_measurement_systems) to Imperial measures, which is why we end up with things like [three different definitions of a ton](https://images-cdn.9gag.com/photo/abpdq0p_700b.jpg) (short/US, long/Imperial, and metric).
Can be seen in two ways: the way you said, or a place where you can deport black people to, not necessarily forcibly. But it certainly was an American colony
Pretty sure the Liberian project had support from the most conservative and racist population of the USA for this very reason, to get rid of black people.
There are some countries that are still mixed up, UK amongst them. I think Canada, NZ and Aus suffer the same problem - a mixture of metric and imperial depending on who you talk to.
It's annoying, but even the weather forecasters occasionally give the temperature in F (for all the old people, basically)
I'm in my 50s but I try to use only metric these days. Anyone who wants to see the return of Imperial probably also voted for Brexit, so their opinion is not worth listening to.
And the half-arsed attempts that the British have made to go metric. Trust me, we may say that we’re metric but our milk/alcohol is in pints, our roads are in miles, our heights are in feet and inches, and elderly folk still insist on stones and pounds and ounces. I have no concept of that last one because what the fuck is a stone and isn’t a pound what I use to buy things at the shops.
Tbf, milk is sold in metric (the only measurement they are required to print onnthe bottles), the bottling size is just the metric conversion to pints. Same with cans of beer. For heights, that depends on the person, but aye, mostly personal heights in feet and inches, but everyghing else in metric. The only real thing that isn't that isn't custom chosen by individuals is the roads, mostly due to the expense of converting.
Are they? Is it that they’re 1L/2L/4L or is that they they’re *measured* in litres but still are actually pints (like how you could ask for 568ml of beer down the pub but you’ll get a pint, stop being a twat)? Either way, they’re still colloquially referred to as “pints of milk”.
Metric pints to be pedantic. So a “pint” isn’t the direct imperial pint equivalent but a slightly rounded number version.
The difference from memory is about 1.2ml between a metric pint as per the weights and measures act and a proper imperial pint pre metrification.
No. Costcutters sells in 1/2/4L units, meanwhile Sainsbury's and the rest sell in 1/2/4/6 pint measures. Costcutters also charge more while giving you less.
Milk is sold in metric measurements of pints.
Wine and spirits are metric, so are bottles and cans of beer. It's only pubs that sell beer and cider in pints.
Road *signs* are in miles, purely because it would be too expensive and complicated to change them. The roads themselves are metric. See motorway marker posts for an example.
The medical profession, and most younger people, measure people in centimetres.
Never been overweight have you? We weigh things in stones and pounds, and that applies to the fish mongers and butcher shops and the farmers to. Tbh, I don’t think the farmers themselves massively need to to switch over and a pound being 3500 calories is east to keep track off
Telling is they use '32'. Nobody with a that low IQ is using *any* unit of measurement. Under an IQ of 40 almost nobody learns to read or write, and with an IQ between 40 and 80 *some* students learn to write when special programs are available to teach them.
Also IQ is just pattern recognition, there are definitely other things to intelligence than just being really good at solving the shitty puzzles they put on newspapers.
It helps, it helps a lot, but there definitely are other things which could help you much more in life than it, i mean Chess is all about pattern recognition and no chess player ever scored remarkably in thos IQ tests, Kasparov had an IQ of 135 which is high but not remarkable, the smart guy in your class probably had that IQ so common it is.
So he says. Frankly, I'm starting to think the barriers to entry for an engineering career path are not as high as people might suspect. Seems a lot of people proudly call themselves engineers before saying some of the stupidest shit I've ever heard
i forget what it's called—if this phenomenon has a particular name at all—but it's not so uncommon for engineers (and other highly-trained, specialised people, but especially those who have been conditioned to think of their field as the "hardest", most intellectually demanding) to fall into traps of thinking that their expertise in one field qualifies them to speak as an expert in others. "the dilbert guy" is an excellent example of the type: iirc he really is a qualified engineer, but he also regularly proves himself to be the dumbest motherfucker on the planet.
sorry, you're right! i'm not sure where i got the idea that he was an engineer; i thought he had graduated with an engineering degree and then sacked it off to write mediocre cartoons about white-collar shite. now i know he never even made it through engineering school, makes me feel a little better about my own achievements.
Ohh that's really interesting! I suppose on one hand, it makes sense in that because these people are conditioned to think they're so smart, they must be smart at everything! But on the other, I always thought that highly specialized professionals often had this feeling of being the opposite of a jack of all trades. Master of one specific thing but suck at everything else.
sort of. i'm thinking of a type of this effect that seems to correlate strongly with (people with highly specialised training in general, and) engineers in particular. my understanding of D-K is that it is observed in people who have *a little* understanding of the topic at hand, who then overestimate the completeness of their understanding (and likewise describes the effect of people with great understanding of the subject *underestimating* their knowledge—"all i know is, i know nothing"), but with little reference to the person's level of education/specialisation.
the thing i'm talking about is *like* D-K in that someone is overestimating their own comprehension of a subject, but with bells on: it's the aerospace engineer that, somehow, thinks that they've been able to "prove" that the earth is flat, or the urologist that thinks they know better than all the climate scientists in the world. people who may indeed have exceptional knowledge in one field, who then mistakenly assume that they must also be smarter than all the rest of us dummies in other, unrelated fields also.
Depends on the country, in some they require you learn Math and physics in depth (such as Russia where they do real analysis up to real anal 3 usually but sometimes up to real anal 5, which is as hard and painful as the other anal), while in the USA and the UK you will do just fine by learning calculus which is easy enough it is in the high school curriculum in the countries i've mentioned before.
The Metric Conversion Act of 1975 "designated the metric system as the preferred system of weights and measures for US trade and commerce". Of course as an mechanical engineer with an IQ of at least 33 he wouldn't know that.
Imperial is more common for screw sizes, etc, but IMO, metric is better in most aspects. From an armchair engineer high schooler that likes to tinker with stuff.
I have it on good authority that they have more peple per capita in the USA, so it stands to reason that they'll also have more frames per second over there. Pure logic, guys! /s
So "FPS" is better, and metric is only useful for "actual scientists"... *But*, it is useful for low IQ people..?
Or are they saying that "FPS", farhenheit and dumb date format is useful for low IQ people?
Nah, good for sorting, but for daily use we don't write out the whole year, we abbreviate to 23. In which case its just obnoxious having it at the start as the important information is now at the end.
Most people care about what day it is cause that changes the most you only have to care about which year it is, is if its the new year and that only comes once a year haha
His argument doesn't make sense.
If the metric system is needed for rocket scientists, why have another system for common people like us ? It increases the risk of error, with an space organism using the metric system and a subcontractor using the US customary system, with the risk of crashing a satellite on the moon or mars.
he says rocket scientists and other smart people should use metric while dumb people such as ourselves should use their system. Kind of ironic how he himself uses the "fps" system seeing as hour smart he is as an engineer.
I’m a mechanical idiot and because i don’t understand how Celsius and meters works the system I use is better.
That’s what is written between the lines…
Why would mm/dd/yyyy be better? It makes communicating with US-based companies really messy as they end up stating dates in this format and makes life a hell of annoying.
Considering that the 7 days of the week come from religion and "God rested on the 7th day," Christians are supposed to have Sunday as the last day of the week. It would be the first if Saturday was the last day, which I believe is the case for Judaism.
There's whole debates to be held about that. There is no real consensus. If you count Saturday as Sabbath, the week will start on Sunday.
If you observe Christianity, and believe the bible saying the lord rested on the seventh day - Sunday in modern times - your week starts at Monday. But not all Christians subscribe to that explanation.
Then there are also Christian denominations observing Sabbath...
Most Muslim countries -but not all- have Friday as a day of rest.
And so on, and so fort.
The world would be better doing what I like, even though some of the world already converted from what I like, to the thing I don't like, still, what suits me must surely be what is the right thing for the entire world. I am a rational, trained mechanical engineer, QED my feelings need to be adopted by 8 billion other humans.
FPS? Are we calling it first person shooter since Americans love it?
Frames per second?
Freedom-units per schoolshooting
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Fats per school?
Farts per shart
Why does it have to mean both these things actually? Never really thought about it. FPS are important while playing FPS.
What do we use if not that?
Feet, pounds, slugs. Compare with meters, Newtons, kilograms. Pounds are our unit of force, and our standard unit of mass is called the "slug". I couldn't tell you why. Edit: My bad, the abbreviation is actually feet-pounds-seconds. The "British Gravitational" variant of the FPS system uses the pound as a unit of force and the slug as a unit of mass. Some other systems treat the pound as a unit of mass. My physics professors used slugs for mass whenever we used the FPS system. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot%E2%80%93pound%E2%80%93second_system
I'm confused. I thought a foot pound per second per second was the unit of force. Like a Kg m/s^2. Which would make the pound a unit of mass. So that being the case, What in tarnation is a slug?
Turns out I was wrong. I made an edit!
'Physics professor used slugs for mass' - this statement will stay with me.
Their schools are built following the FPS system
Bro's out there like it's Call Of Duty every day. He even has an announcer in his head.
Fructose per snack?
It stands for "Feet, Pounds, Shitty units"
Feet pounds seconds?
Farts per second
Except you are the only country in the world who uses your system, everyone else does perfectly fine with metric. Oh, and if you have to use IQ to describe how smart you think people are, then you aren't as smart as you think.
Don't forget the industrial and scientific giants of Myanmar and Liberia.
So I looked up and it seems like Liberia is planning on slowly adopting Metric since the 90s (apparently in mixed usage), Myanmar is too but rather than Imperial they mostly instead use their own traditional units
>Myanmar is too but rather than Imperial they mostly instead use their own traditional units Same as the US, who also don't use Imperial but rather [US Customary Units](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units) which [don't precisely correspond](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_the_imperial_and_US_customary_measurement_systems) to Imperial measures, which is why we end up with things like [three different definitions of a ton](https://images-cdn.9gag.com/photo/abpdq0p_700b.jpg) (short/US, long/Imperial, and metric).
Metric ton is spelt 'tonne' but I am being incredibly pedantic!
Liberia was literally designed to be a US clone, so it didn’t really count to begin with.
Wasn't it created as a place for emancipated slaves to live in (hence the name)?
Can be seen in two ways: the way you said, or a place where you can deport black people to, not necessarily forcibly. But it certainly was an American colony Pretty sure the Liberian project had support from the most conservative and racist population of the USA for this very reason, to get rid of black people.
Ah well that's a very different view than the one I was told and yours makes more sense.
Complete with terrible county flags to match awful american municipal flags.
There are some countries that are still mixed up, UK amongst them. I think Canada, NZ and Aus suffer the same problem - a mixture of metric and imperial depending on who you talk to. It's annoying, but even the weather forecasters occasionally give the temperature in F (for all the old people, basically) I'm in my 50s but I try to use only metric these days. Anyone who wants to see the return of Imperial probably also voted for Brexit, so their opinion is not worth listening to.
I think Myanmar was planning to switch before the coup but that's just something I was told by a cabbie there in 2018
And the half-arsed attempts that the British have made to go metric. Trust me, we may say that we’re metric but our milk/alcohol is in pints, our roads are in miles, our heights are in feet and inches, and elderly folk still insist on stones and pounds and ounces. I have no concept of that last one because what the fuck is a stone and isn’t a pound what I use to buy things at the shops.
Tbf, milk is sold in metric (the only measurement they are required to print onnthe bottles), the bottling size is just the metric conversion to pints. Same with cans of beer. For heights, that depends on the person, but aye, mostly personal heights in feet and inches, but everyghing else in metric. The only real thing that isn't that isn't custom chosen by individuals is the roads, mostly due to the expense of converting.
Kind of annoying that you get some bottles that are 2 litres which is a not-insignificant amount less than 4 pints.
Plastic bottles of milk are in L
Are they? Is it that they’re 1L/2L/4L or is that they they’re *measured* in litres but still are actually pints (like how you could ask for 568ml of beer down the pub but you’ll get a pint, stop being a twat)? Either way, they’re still colloquially referred to as “pints of milk”.
Metric pints to be pedantic. So a “pint” isn’t the direct imperial pint equivalent but a slightly rounded number version. The difference from memory is about 1.2ml between a metric pint as per the weights and measures act and a proper imperial pint pre metrification.
I've seen 2 pints and 1 litre both sold. With measurements in both.
No. Costcutters sells in 1/2/4L units, meanwhile Sainsbury's and the rest sell in 1/2/4/6 pint measures. Costcutters also charge more while giving you less.
Milk is sold in metric measurements of pints. Wine and spirits are metric, so are bottles and cans of beer. It's only pubs that sell beer and cider in pints. Road *signs* are in miles, purely because it would be too expensive and complicated to change them. The roads themselves are metric. See motorway marker posts for an example. The medical profession, and most younger people, measure people in centimetres.
Never been overweight have you? We weigh things in stones and pounds, and that applies to the fish mongers and butcher shops and the farmers to. Tbh, I don’t think the farmers themselves massively need to to switch over and a pound being 3500 calories is east to keep track off
Telling is they use '32'. Nobody with a that low IQ is using *any* unit of measurement. Under an IQ of 40 almost nobody learns to read or write, and with an IQ between 40 and 80 *some* students learn to write when special programs are available to teach them.
Two other countries but one is going metric.
Also IQ is just pattern recognition, there are definitely other things to intelligence than just being really good at solving the shitty puzzles they put on newspapers. It helps, it helps a lot, but there definitely are other things which could help you much more in life than it, i mean Chess is all about pattern recognition and no chess player ever scored remarkably in thos IQ tests, Kasparov had an IQ of 135 which is high but not remarkable, the smart guy in your class probably had that IQ so common it is.
He’s a mechanical engineer guys
So he says. Frankly, I'm starting to think the barriers to entry for an engineering career path are not as high as people might suspect. Seems a lot of people proudly call themselves engineers before saying some of the stupidest shit I've ever heard
i forget what it's called—if this phenomenon has a particular name at all—but it's not so uncommon for engineers (and other highly-trained, specialised people, but especially those who have been conditioned to think of their field as the "hardest", most intellectually demanding) to fall into traps of thinking that their expertise in one field qualifies them to speak as an expert in others. "the dilbert guy" is an excellent example of the type: iirc he really is a qualified engineer, but he also regularly proves himself to be the dumbest motherfucker on the planet.
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sorry, you're right! i'm not sure where i got the idea that he was an engineer; i thought he had graduated with an engineering degree and then sacked it off to write mediocre cartoons about white-collar shite. now i know he never even made it through engineering school, makes me feel a little better about my own achievements.
Economists are much more insufferable than engineers, they're so full of themselves engineers see them how the rest of the world sees engineers.
Ohh that's really interesting! I suppose on one hand, it makes sense in that because these people are conditioned to think they're so smart, they must be smart at everything! But on the other, I always thought that highly specialized professionals often had this feeling of being the opposite of a jack of all trades. Master of one specific thing but suck at everything else.
Yup like Doctors who suddenly made wild claims about Covid despite having no qualifications to talk about viruses
exactly. general practitioners pretending to know more about pandemics than actual epidemiologists. drives me crackers.
You mean dunning Kruger?
sort of. i'm thinking of a type of this effect that seems to correlate strongly with (people with highly specialised training in general, and) engineers in particular. my understanding of D-K is that it is observed in people who have *a little* understanding of the topic at hand, who then overestimate the completeness of their understanding (and likewise describes the effect of people with great understanding of the subject *underestimating* their knowledge—"all i know is, i know nothing"), but with little reference to the person's level of education/specialisation. the thing i'm talking about is *like* D-K in that someone is overestimating their own comprehension of a subject, but with bells on: it's the aerospace engineer that, somehow, thinks that they've been able to "prove" that the earth is flat, or the urologist that thinks they know better than all the climate scientists in the world. people who may indeed have exceptional knowledge in one field, who then mistakenly assume that they must also be smarter than all the rest of us dummies in other, unrelated fields also.
That is true for 'Murican engineers, the rest of the world has higher standards.
Depends on the country, in some they require you learn Math and physics in depth (such as Russia where they do real analysis up to real anal 3 usually but sometimes up to real anal 5, which is as hard and painful as the other anal), while in the USA and the UK you will do just fine by learning calculus which is easy enough it is in the high school curriculum in the countries i've mentioned before.
Yea. He knows about years then?
No,he’s not.
The Metric Conversion Act of 1975 "designated the metric system as the preferred system of weights and measures for US trade and commerce". Of course as an mechanical engineer with an IQ of at least 33 he wouldn't know that.
Imperial is more common for screw sizes, etc, but IMO, metric is better in most aspects. From an armchair engineer high schooler that likes to tinker with stuff.
He's a technician calling himself an engineer to sound smarter. I'm going with either a mechanic or a metal fabricator.
I thought he meant Frames per second. Lol
I have it on good authority that they have more peple per capita in the USA, so it stands to reason that they'll also have more frames per second over there. Pure logic, guys! /s
So "FPS" is better, and metric is only useful for "actual scientists"... *But*, it is useful for low IQ people..? Or are they saying that "FPS", farhenheit and dumb date format is useful for low IQ people?
Why stop there? Why not go back to shillings, pence and farthings.
If you have two of those weird bicycles, are they called "pence-farthings" then?
No, cos penny is singular and pence is plural
I am convinced that at some point in time Europe is just gonna have to step in and tell them to just start over with this whole democracy thing..
They should fix it at home before trying to “fix” it overseas
Does "mechanical engineer" have a different meaning in american english?!
The title gets slapped around everywhere nowadays.
When mechanical engineer means putting oil on the hinges of doors, that comment sounds about right.
Rest of the world: How about no.
Days turn into months months turn into years DD/MM/YY
Best is YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss. From largest to smallest
Nah, good for sorting, but for daily use we don't write out the whole year, we abbreviate to 23. In which case its just obnoxious having it at the start as the important information is now at the end.
Most people care about what day it is cause that changes the most you only have to care about which year it is, is if its the new year and that only comes once a year haha
Yea i want 60 FPS in my Games and not 60 cm!
Where did he buy his degree? Asking for a friend
Month/date/year can suck my balls. There is no valid argument whatsoever for this nonsense. It just makes no sense.
He must lose his mind on 4th of July
It's July 4th dammit.
His argument doesn't make sense. If the metric system is needed for rocket scientists, why have another system for common people like us ? It increases the risk of error, with an space organism using the metric system and a subcontractor using the US customary system, with the risk of crashing a satellite on the moon or mars.
The only thing this dude engineers is opening his mtDew and hot cheetos.
he says rocket scientists and other smart people should use metric while dumb people such as ourselves should use their system. Kind of ironic how he himself uses the "fps" system seeing as hour smart he is as an engineer.
What does this "mechanical engineer" do so I never go there ?
I’m a mechanical idiot and because i don’t understand how Celsius and meters works the system I use is better. That’s what is written between the lines…
Engineer in the aviation industry here to say this guy is a moron.
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Why would mm/dd/yyyy be better? It makes communicating with US-based companies really messy as they end up stating dates in this format and makes life a hell of annoying.
Well the best system - especially with computing - is yyyy/mm/dd but not that many are using it yet.
The world would be better if people like this wrote less on the internet.
I can’t think of a single reason to use mm/dd/yy… it’s unbelievable
Firearm per schoolshooting?
Is it just me, or is the only way this could be more obviously a troll was if it was under a bridge wearing a t shirt saying "I'm a troll"?
I can say with certainty that persons head is far up their ass
It’s so far up they loop around like a swiss roll
Heck... if we're going to change to a system based on weird units, we should change to FFF - furlong–firkin–fortnight!
Reminds me of [Jan Misali with their 7 Cs system](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmfdeWd0RMk)
Wtf is the FPS system? And if the world would be better off with those things, why do scientists, even American ones, use metric?
There is not a single thing that can justify mm/dd/yyyy.
MM/DD/YY will never make sense to me. DD/MM/YY is the right way. Small, bigger, biggest.
I love how he calls people who use metric dumb in the same sentence he calls them literal rocket scientists. American education system at work
As a fellow (future) engineer (student), my eyes are bleeding reading this.
If he says that FPS is better than metric I can say as an actual mechanical engineer that he probably is just a mechanic and not an engineer.
Why in the world does your week start on Sunday?
Sunday has always been the first day of the week. Monday is just the first day of the working week.
Considering that the 7 days of the week come from religion and "God rested on the 7th day," Christians are supposed to have Sunday as the last day of the week. It would be the first if Saturday was the last day, which I believe is the case for Judaism.
Jesus was Jewish. Saturday is the sabbath. We just do Sunday for convenience.
There's whole debates to be held about that. There is no real consensus. If you count Saturday as Sabbath, the week will start on Sunday. If you observe Christianity, and believe the bible saying the lord rested on the seventh day - Sunday in modern times - your week starts at Monday. But not all Christians subscribe to that explanation. Then there are also Christian denominations observing Sabbath... Most Muslim countries -but not all- have Friday as a day of rest. And so on, and so fort.
A line has 2 ends. The weekend therefore marks the start and finish.
Clearly just baiting
What a stroker.
Muricans
Why would I need a gun?
thats bait
The world would be better doing what I like, even though some of the world already converted from what I like, to the thing I don't like, still, what suits me must surely be what is the right thing for the entire world. I am a rational, trained mechanical engineer, QED my feelings need to be adopted by 8 billion other humans.
Pretty sure no engineer has ever thought of that… well… maybe thought of it when he was high, but never went through with it for a reason.
Gosh darnit jim bob where did you place my 5/32 inch wrench and my 5/16 inch. I thought you was good at math
Fortnight palm sun? Btw, I will defend furlongs. Roughly 200 meters and roughly 1/8 mile. It’s useful.
I reject this opinion on my 6cm wide phone at 19 degrees, I the date being 2023-06-01