Fuck you Trump. Just fucking do it. Stop playing stupid games and get to the goddamn point.

  • Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml
    8·
    13 hours ago

    CBSA officials seized some eight million grams of drugs compared to five million taken by U.S. Custom and Border Protection (CBP) officials last year, government data shows.

    Even when using SI units, Americans just have to make it weird somehow. 8 million grams? Who the hell uses grams like that? Just call it 8000 kilos or something

    • janNatan@lemmy.ml
      6·
      10 hours ago

      Look, Americans are not familiar with kilograms. However, we do know grams… because… reasons.

      • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
        3·
        2 hours ago

        I guess it’s because they use to nab people for way smaller amount of drugs so they used the same unit even in case of huge haul for consistency. Still weird tho, SI units are made to be completely consistent at all times.

      • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        3 hours ago

        Its literally 1000 grams, kilo means 1000. Just like kilobytes. It’s like when you read that someone has 1k dollars, or 1kk = 1m = 1,000,000.

        You should be as familiar with kilograms as grams… It’s literally just a multiplier.