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minus-squareyA3xAKQMbq@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down3·1 year ago Nobody divides miles by feet. Yeah. Because it’s a shitty system. It will be the same for kilometers. Except it’s not. People will either say „half a kilometre“ or „500 meters“, because that’s something you can actually easily calculate … And your GPS will tell you „turn left in 100/200/etc m“, or and not „in a quarter of a mile“…
Yeah. Because it’s a shitty system.
Except it’s not.
People will either say „half a kilometre“ or „500 meters“, because that’s something you can actually easily calculate …
And your GPS will tell you „turn left in 100/200/etc m“, or and not „in a quarter of a mile“…