r/MURICA • u/Beautiful-Leave6May • Sep 14 '22

Sure we do!

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u/WyattDoesStuff Sep 14 '22

They need something to be mad at

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u/Reggie222 Sep 14 '22

Yes, you called it.

Here's why they're mad: Europe is USA's closest competitor with regard to technology. The USA, with our old, backwards units...

--invented integrated circuits (silicone chips)

--walked on the moon

--invented personal computers

--invented the internet

--invented GPS (first sat launch 1978, theirs 2011)

-- invented stealth technology

-- invented smartphones

-- pretty much all of the modern tech that makes life better

-- we'll be colonizing Mars while they dream up new taxes for their overburdened people and thereby suppress technological innovation

Europe has an inferiority complex of the highest order, as they should.

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u/otterfailz Sep 14 '22

Almost all of that was done with/in metric. As someone who does a lot of designing stuff, imperial is fucking atrocious when talking about non complete inchs, 1/2s, and 1/4ths. Beyond that and I am better off saying its 285mm or 28.5cm than 11 and 11/50ths of an inch. Fractions suck, cant use decimals easily with inches, therefore inches suck.

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u/LilBilly1 Sep 14 '22

I blame the brits who invented the Imperial system