I’m tired of guessing which country the author is from when they use cup measurement and how densely they put flour in it.

  • @ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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    25 days ago

    The US isn’t as entirely devoid of metric as a lot of people get the impression. We all learn it in school and are perfectly familiar with it, we just never made the switch for everyday units, so a lot of people lack the intuition around what the values mean. I can’t tell you what 25c feels like without thinking about it for a minute.

    I’m curious though, does anyone not use the proper names for the elements?

    • @Frostbeard@lemmy.world
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      14 days ago

      The texts books at least used natrium and kalium for the most part as far as I remember.

      Are lot of the web pages did not. But this was 2004-2010.