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Fun fact: you can convert from miles to kilometers using the Fibonacci sequence:
1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 35
- 5 miles = 8 kilometers
- 21 miles = 35 kilometers
- 10 miles (2 + 8) = 16 kilometers (3 + 13)
So this means 1 mile = 1 kilometer.
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And after choosing not to use them, you might need to convert them to something else sometimes. You gonna tell me Europeans never travel to America as tourists? This is a fascinating and easy to remember method for them or anyone else.
You came to the right thread for shitting on Americans, obviously, but you chose the wrong place for this condescending comment.
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Fibonacci sequence just adds the two prior numbers to get the next number. Even your brain can recreate it anytime anywhere very easily.
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It works because the ration between miles and kilometers (~1.609) is surprisingly close to the Golden Ratio (~1.618), and https://letstalkscience.ca/educational-resources/backgrounders/fibonacci-and-golden-ratio
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Youβ¦ shouldnβt? Unless you travel here as a tourist, as many do. This is converting FROM miles. I donβt understand why anyone would pick this place to shit on people who use miles. This comment offers a way out of using miles.
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Just wanted to give a meme-y answer since we are in a meme side of the lemmy. I even thanked the person even though I think I will never travel outside my country given my circumstances.
Yes, nautical miles still have some logic behind, as they are based on degrees of latitude.
Still it's funny to me that they are still called miles.
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I appreciate this practical answer even though I just learned that only pilots uses this particular American measure system Americans call mile.
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The FBI set up a sting while looking for people who want to trade babies for Big Macs. It's a bigger problem than you think.
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The term is still whispered in the dimly lit, smoky rooms of Republican get-togethers.
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It was big time, but not so much anymore. You still hear it from the dinosaurs in office.
How the left sees welfare: corps pay too little so people need to be subsidized by the government to afford food, or you fell on bad times/have mental disorders and can't work so we help you afford the bare minimum.
How the right sees welfare: black women are getting knocked up constantly so they can collect even more money doing absolutely nothing but being a drain on society.
Pretty gross stuff...
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The US will never be cured of the extreme capitalist model that impoverishes the poor and increases the wealth of the rich when they accept these terms. They are designed to do nothing more than segregate the population into manageable lumps. People need to jump on derogatory terms that are only meant to belittle people who cannot defend themselves. The racism in the US is nothing more than a political agenda to do exactly the same thing. You really have to call this out when you see it.
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Anyone who actually types out "haha!" is a lying shitheel boomer.
And if you legitimately have 3 "welfare queens" in the immediate vicinity of your house, you likely live in a trailer park that ignorantly went all in for Trump.
Tl;dr: imho the people most likely to abuse the welfare system are poor white folk who unironically vote against their best interests by putting GOP goons into office. They complain that they can't get out of their trailer park, but they consistently vote for the people who will do everything possible to keep them there.
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shitheel boomer
Lol. My bad for using something besides the lol or lmao that literally everyone else uses. Are we actually arguing about this? What a dumb fucking point to make. I used language to convey a message that dictates that I am not laughing for comedic effect, I am laughing to breeze off the fact that what you said is blatantly full of shit, something that lol probably wouldn't be appropriate for. You wouldn't know that though, it is clear you don't get much human interaction at all considering the fact you though welfare queens were not a real thing.
Good on you to assume the races of someone gaming the welfare system! I already know which of the nearly identical parties you worship are! FYI, One is black, two are white. I live in a city, a blue one, one that has been blue for about, idk, 70 years? What happened to "welfare queens don't exist"? You sure seem to not know jack shit about how the world works considering just how confidently incorrect you were!
Also, I don't appreciate you assuming I'd do something so grossly absentminded as supporting any bipartisan effort you dumb fucking disgusting fascist piece of shit.
Supporting democratic or republican efforts is supporting the death of the US in the name of money, moneymoneymoneymoneymoney, but thanks for bringing politics into dankmemes! You clearly have nothing better to back your claim, so you fell back on politics, just like everyone else with no life!
Go back to /pol/ incel chud
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Who said I worship a party? All I said was that "welfare queens" are, by and large, a myth made up to make ignorant racist white people feel like they should be punching down on the people who legitimately need government assistance instead of punching up at the people who are actually bilking the federal government for millions of dollars.
I've spent time in enough trailer parks to know the type. That type is usually the person who uses the phrase "welfare queen" unironically.
But sure, I'm the incel chud.
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uses the phrase "welfare queen" unironically.
Holy shit, are you writing this with chatgpt or something? Your memory permance is horrible.
YOU WERE THE ONE WHO USED IT UNIRONICALLY LMFAO. And you know the type? So you mean to tell me that you yourself are the type of person you're describing? Talk about suicide by words. I can count on one hand the amount of times I've even heard or read the words "welfare queen".
If you seriously think that it is only rich fuckers who game the system and not everyone then you have lived a very sheltered, naive life. That's like saying only cartels sell drugs. People of all parts of the spectrum commit monetary crimes.
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And motherfucker I swear to god you didn't read shit that I wrote, I literally said I'm an American Indian, I am the minority's minority. You clearly worship a party because of two reasons:
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You IMMEDIATELY brought politics into play
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You IMMEDIATELY bashed a specific political figure
What compelled you to bring up orange dickskin?Why would you bring up politics into the conversation? The conversation had nothing to do with politics, it was a joke.
Fucking nasty ass liberal, you're no better than the conservatives. You people don't even know what the meaning of the words mean without googling it, yet here you are barging in with an argument on politics that literally nobody gives a fuck about but you.
Please, I am genuinely asking this
Go outside, talk to someone, have sex.
I have never met someone this terminally online, your life would be 100x better if you limited internet access, it is very clear that you have never felt the touch of another human being.
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shitheel boomer
Lol. My bad for using something besides the lol or lmao that literally everyone else uses. Are we actually arguing about this? What a dumb fucking point to make. I used language to convey a message that dictates that I am not laughing for comedic effect, I am laughing to breeze off the fact that what you said is blatantly full of shit, something that lol probably wouldn't be appropriate for. You wouldn't know that though, it is clear you don't get much human interaction at all considering the fact you though welfare queens were not a real thing.
Good on you to assume the races of someone gaming the welfare system! I already know which of the nearly identical parties you worship are! FYI, One is black, two are white. I live in a city, a blue one, one that has been blue for about, idk, 70 years? What happened to "welfare queens don't exist"? You sure seem to not know jack shit about how the world works considering just how confidently incorrect you were!
Also, I don't appreciate you assuming I'd do something so grossly absentminded as supporting any bipartisan effort you dumb fucking disgusting fascist piece of shit.
Supporting democratic or republican efforts is supporting the death of the US in the name of money, moneymoneymoneymoneymoney, but thanks for bringing politics into dankmemes! You clearly have nothing better to back your claim, so you fell back on politics, just like everyone else with no life!
Go back to /pol/ incel chud
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America: I bet the rest of the world is so thinking about me right now.
The rest of the world: My brother in earth, I have my own shit going on.
We don't think this... Other countries just think we think this. I'm not kidding, that's actually the case lol.
It's shocking for us in the states to learn about other countries knowing which states are which. We don't even know that!
This is weird. I constantly see posts about how America is bad from Europeans. I don't think I've ever seen one the other way around. Who is thinking about who all the time?
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Mostly Europeans amuse themselves about how Americans think they're living in a first world country while having absolute basic developed-world-shit just flat out fail. I.e. health care, consumer regulation, public transit, education, clean water. Sure the US is not uniform but it's a single country. Even Europe has it's own problems but most countries have this stuff figured out more or less.
The reason Europeans mock Americans is because Americans always ALWAYS complain about how they're getting fucked. And Europeans are just like "lol that shit ain't an issue here". Which a) contributes to Europeans thinking the US is a shithole and b) making Americans seem kinda whiny.
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So many Americans are desperately trying to survive. I'm glad that our suffering is entertaining, though.
It's nice to laugh at people who are dying because we don't have health insurance. What a gas! /s
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Y'all still waving your FATCA cock all over the world so excuse us for having some schadenfreude.
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oh don't let me interrupt your laughing at people starving and dying while you blame organizations that I have nothing to do with. I've never even heard of that.
I'm just a normal person trying to not die.
We did adopt metric! For our military. Because there's a certain efficiency in killing when it's done in metric.
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That, and being dependent on your automobile.
True, within some big American cities, a mostly) carfree life is possible if you live in a condo near a metro station.
But walkable neighborhoods are a rarity, while they are the default in the rest of the world.
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Yes, it is, which is why it is baffling that they don't have good high speed rail infrastructure like China, Japan, France or Germany.
And yes, cars make sense for the rural people, but densely populated urban centers in the USA are just badly designed due to bad zoning laws.
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what the fuck is a kilometer
A meter used to measure how many TERRORISTS we killed today B-)
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America is a really big and diverse place. Really it's both and neither depending on where you are
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Whenever someone points out absolutely anything negative about America.
"murica big, we not all like that!" π€‘
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Jokes on all of you, I know what a kilometer is because it's the maximum distance I would walk to trade a baby for 15 Big Macs.
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Yeah he's an idiot but why is there only 1 mugshot, who's the dude that bought the baby?
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If a man ofered me a baby for 15 big macs, i would accept the deal, take the baby and go to the police.
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The lower picture is missing a conferderate flag next to the fat idiot, that would definitely be there in my head!
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Oh no, save me from this place with free healthcare and with so rarely occurence of school shooting than they became national tragedies instead regular thursday news.
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Football fields are a stupid measurement in more than one way, because you can not just measure the width or the length, but football fields can be of varying sizes too.
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It was a joke about we how Americans will use any measurement except the metric system. I'm sorry.
Also this never fails to make me smile.
"In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigradeβwhich is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it. Whereas in the American system, the answer to βHow much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?β is βGo fuck yourself,β because you canβt directly relate any of those quantities" -- Josh Bazell
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There isn't a fixed length for our football fields. Weird, right?
At least the Americans know how large their football fields are.
Yes, yes... The imperial system is sub-par. I'm so bored by this argument.
What exactly do you want us to do about it? We're having a hard enough time keeping domestic terrorists out of our local and federal governments. Things aren't great here, friend... We've got bigger fish to fry than worrying about units of measurement.
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I agree. The imperial system is sub-par, but it's understandable to be tired of this ongoing argument. There are indeed bigger priorities to address than debating units of measurement.
I was just making a joke on a joke post. I meant no harm.
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They are similar. For general purposes like this you could really treat them the same, like yard vs meter, quart vs liter
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We donβt know what those numbers mean with your communist commas. A decimal point (period) is the only real way to delimit unit from fractional units
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Can confirm. McDonald's now no longer offers the Baby for a Big Mac deal. Thanks, assholes.
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Yeah, post COVID-19 they only offer 3 big macs per baby. It's really messing around with disposable bartering chips.