95% of the world wouldn’t be able to tell if 79° was a #ClimateCrisis, because we don’t use bonkers Fahrenheit units. What is 79°? Does it even have a proper unit? Are you trying to keep US climate crisis evidence from being understood by the rest of us? Be nice global citizens, #MoreMetric.
In 95% of the world, it’s never any weather at any time. We use sensible °C, but Americans are so oblivious to their exceptionalism they barely add units even when their units make no sense. #MoreMetric
Translation for 95% of the world: -24ºF=-31ºC, -29ºF=-34ºC, 70ºF=21ºC, -21ºF=-29ºC, -25ºF=-32ºC.
#moremetric
Ha! You got me there, good search on my history. Generally I’m fairly consistent on my use of metric, hence #MoreMetric . Sometimes I may slip. If I find the posts I’ll add a conversion to metric :-) !
That song Black Sheep is so good but for some reason I've never tried to listen to #MoreMetric
The reality is that lots of people, 95% of the planet, eg me, pick up this skeet outside of the U.S. & don’t use those measurements. Now I have to convert: 40”=1.016 m. OK, a metre of rain. Now I understand how bad. In the future, could you consider the other 19/20 people on earth? #MoreMetric
Fair enough, you’ve just alienated 95% of the planet. 🍿 #MoreMetric
This is picked up by an international audience (e.g. me in the UK), 95% of which don't understand these moronic units. A simple conversion to ºC would save a lot of effort and create better engagement. #MoreMetric.
Funny that, because I’m in the U.K.; picked it up without even asking & just as much in the dark thanks to the meaningless units. So everything was close to or literally boiling then? #MoreMetric
Science has gone back to imperial measurements has it? Or is that just in Trump’s America? #MoreMetric.
Just toss that imperial junk overboard, it's just Cultural Imperialism from the 4% of the planet that does stupid measurements. We face a similar problem in the UK, it's solved by going #MoreMetric #ElbowsUp .
Imperial / US Customary measurements suck, and it's hugely offensive to millions outside of the US, when Americans impose them on the rest of us. It's just Cultural Imperialism blithely stomping on sanity. #MoreMetric
(First: *note, I’m a left-wing Evangelical Christian, so this isn’t Christian-bashing.)
#MoreMetric is about making a step change in UK metrication. It makes us more European, easing our cultural path back to #RejoinEU. The big difference between it & all our technocratic moaning & pleading.. 2/
Predictably scary MAGA/Christian Nationalist* stuff. But, at least they have a strategy, whereas #RejoinEU don’t. One strategy is to pick a fight for practice, the opposite campaign to JRM’s imperial units one. #MoreMetric is that plan.. 1/ @nialloconghaile.bsky.social , @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social
It would help if you did it in metric: imperial (or US customary units) just perpetuates ignorance and the other 95% of the planet can't use it. Even Brits don't think in terms of gallons of petrol, and British gallons are bigger anyway. #MoreMetric.
@mikegalsworthy.bsky.social, @nialloconghaile.bsky.social : this is why Remainers keep failing too. We're technocrats arguing over economic details; they're selling 🇬🇧. We need to switching to belonging ( #EuBelong ). Let's first practice winning by picking a fight we can #MoreMetric.
Yay, and all in #MoreMetric!
Brexiters don't even Love Europe, the phrase is just to inject more division. e.g. if they loved Europe, they'd be pro- #MoreMetric. Instead they're rabidly opposed. They love the idea of individual nations with no collective power at the mercy of the Anglosphere and Russian Federation. #RejoinEU.
#MoreMetric as a practice fight we can pick and win. Metrification pushes us culturally back towards the rest of Europe and away from the US, which is why Brexiters were so keen for us to Imperialise - against the wishes of 99% of the responses to JRM's rigged consultancy. #RejoinEU
Shout out for the use of metric! #MoreMetric
e.g. "We've been trying switch since the 1960s, but these anti-British people hold us back." or "Imperial units stunt our kids education." or whatever. Force metric use with others in everyday situations. Make it an issue, because it is with them and it will really wind them up! #MoreMetric.
The way to get back in the EU is to pick a fight on something adjacent we can win. The best fight to pick is to push for #MoreMetric in the UK. That's because Imperial measurements are a surprisingly high priority for Brexiters. Why do they care so much? It's because units are everyday.. 1/
Well, at least we’re spared #Felon47 boasting about crowd sizes 😉 ! #StopFascism, #MoreMetric
It matters enough for you to defend °F. Also it matters that publishing in °F means the 95% who doesn’t use it have to convert, when the tweeter could have saved us all the effort by doing the conversion once (20s vs 40mins(?) total effort). #MoreMetric
I'm tired of Americans everywhere shoving their archaic, unscientific units on the rest of the world. They need to grow up & start collaborating with planet earth: this mess with #Felon47 is precisely because even progressives are "America First". #MoreMetric.
