In the spirit of rapprochement with Europe and reorientation away from the United States, it’s time to complete the Metrication process in Canada that was stopped prematurely by the Mulroney government.

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    There is such a unit as a metric teaspoon and metric tablespoon. Used by the American medicine industry to give dosages. Actual moon landing unit tea- and tablespoons work out to something like 4.9 and 14.7mL, which are rounded to an even 5 and 15mL respectively for dosing liquid medicine. Because if you’re ordinary American citizens giving your child some Dimetapp at 3 in the morning, maybe you don’t have a vessel to meter out milliliters but you can probably lay your hands on your kitchen measuring spoons.