He got at least partially Canadianized mid post switching from miles to kilometres.
this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2024
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Op writing they walked 3km of 4 miles feels very canadian
Do Canadians use both units?
Officially, they use the metric system, but because of the close contact with the US, many things are measured in imperial units
One of the most confusing places to be in is a Canadian machine shop. Half the machines will be imperial and the other will be metric. Work order come in both units on the regular.
The same Canadian might not use both, but older people are still more comfortable with the American system for certain things like temperature.
For the GP, Canada converted to metric starting in 1970 and completing the conversion in 1985.
So everyone under 55 grew up in metric, but anyone older than that had to convert.
So, baking and cooking are generally done in imperial to this day, but commerce and public works are all metric.
I generally think personal weight in pounds, height in feet, distance in meters, deli purchases in grams, fluids in litres, gravel in yards, chopped wood in cords, etc.
I went to university in Canada for engineering in the early 1980s. We had to learn both Imperial and metric, because almost all the textbooks and equipment came from the US. We would usually convert into metric to do all calculations and then convert back at the end because to do otherwise is insanity.
I would guess that the same is still true today, because the equipment and textbooks still come from the US.
Not so much today; as I mentioned, the transition period was from 1970 to 1985. While some textbooks and equipment still comes from the US, a lot is also sourced from other parts of the world, and some textbooks are Canadian versions now (in metric).
In fact, the textbook countries spent a good 20 years from the late 80s to the early 00s churning out new editions on an annual basis where a bit more was converted to metric every time. This often forced students to buy up to three editions of a book new if a department was using the same text for a course series.
I could actually see the point in learning both, because there is a very good chance that engineers are going to be facing both systems in their professional lives.
We use all of the units; my prints generally list pipe diameter in inches, but length in millimetres
I hate Canadians.
Those shifty bastards are hiding something.
Yeah, it's dead children under our residential schools.
Sorry?
Probably a reference to some show but idk either
No… that was the Canadian sorry. It means multiple things at once.
Ah the ? threw me off
That was the Canadian high rising terminal. You got hit with the twofer
maybe before lockdown. we became budget maga about a quarter of the way into lockdown.
Literally. Not MCGA, but MAGA with cast-off paraphernalia from the 2020 US election. And Freedom stickers. And more F*ck Trudeau merchandise.
Anon is either white or they come from the same area in the world as the immigrant family that they met.
Canada is like high key racist now. Thanks MAGA, and your interest in Alberta resources
Hi. Am Canadian, am originally from Alberta, love everyone except fucking fascists, and can confirm Alberta is currently Canada's stanky armpit and has been so for some time.
Well, it's an armpit with gorgeous parks. You've got Banff, Jasper, and part of Glacier, that's pretty awesome!
had Jasper......
? What do you mean?
Oh, is that where all that smoke has been coming from? I thought it was somewhere in BC... We're getting a bunch of smoke down here in the US (all the way from Glacier down to me in Utah).
I think between here and BC we are always on fire somewhere these days.
SMOKE is now a normal weather condition.......
Fair. The armpittines is due to a small percentage of really weird people and their propensity to be simultaneously ignorant and outspoken. Sad that they affect policy and people's lives.
The place itself is breathtaking. Though in fairness, I've moved from there to Vancouver Island and it's kind of been eclipsed by a few orders of magnitude.
Same in America unfortunately. I love camping but there are always confederate flags when driving to the state parks.
Eh, most of those are just idiots who tend to keep to themselves anyway. Just ignore it and consider filling up gas/electricity in one of the larger cities in the region.
But yeah, plenty of rednecks throughout the rural areas...
Yeah, I'm just a little worried being alone with my daughter. My passing rate is maybe over 50%.
If Anon was a native woman they wouldn't have lived to make the post
Ah yes, survivor bias raises its head again!
(Sorry. I'm the worst : 🧡🧡🧡)
We were racist before MAGA
Thunder Bay has been a race war for decades. If a crime happens in the white part of town it’s likely the aboriginal people and if it happens in the aboriginal part of town it’s likely white people. I was nice to an aboriginal person once when I was there and he started crying then hugged me. You can guess which side the police actually investigate
racism exists everywhere, don’t blame the US for what already was there
I'm Canadian and can confirm Canada has always been racist gestures broadly at indigenous affairs and history of violence and assimilation.
That being said Canadians are very nice and it's only a smaller minority that is racist/ awful.
This is true of America, too. I think most people you are likely to meet in America sit between the "not at all racist" and "I mean yeah but it's pretty low key and subconscious" end of the racism spectrum, it's just that our more virulent racists are so often cops and presidential candidates.
Our southern racist neighbor embolden the local racists and make them feel more comfortable doing their racist recruitment in public where it's more effective.
Canada is always just an election cycle or two behind the popular American culture.
Indigenous women have been disappearing to the concern of absolutely nobody in the country for decades. If anything, the rise in fascist ideology in the US has made people more aware and critical of the racism that already existed in Canadian society
That's true, it has emboldened both the bigots and progressives, but I feel like the bigots have turned that boldness into action and change.
I mean.. sure.. but you can't say they're not making it worse and feeding into it for profit
don’t blame the US for what already was there
Flips on American television
Black people are committing crimes! Latinos are doing drugs! Arabs are terrorists! Chinese people are cheating on tests and stealing your jobs! Everyone in India is trying to scam you!!!
Now back to our regularly scheduled movie about a cool White Nationalist who fights back by shooting everyone with a big gun!
Damn, crazy how this was all here before Americans arrived.
Damn, crazy how that's the only form of racism. Don't be fucking stupid.
Canada is like high key racist now.
Canada has a good reputation on how not racist they are, but really all that racism is directed at Indigenous people. You'll be fine for the most part as long as one doesn't stay in the prairies for too long.
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Be in Canada
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Make small talk with random people you meet.
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People offer to drive you around, so you hitchhike everywhere
"Wow everyone in Canada is so nice! They give you a ride wherever you want to go, practically for free."
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Travel to NYC
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Ride the subway all the way across town for, like, $2
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Random people keep trying to make small talk on the train when you've got your headphones in
"Fuck NY, these people are assholes."
I've never understood the New Yorkers are assholes reputation. They're some of the nicest people I've ever met.
I had a map out, guy asks where I'm trying to go, I tell him the Met. He starts giving me directions. Another guy overhears and stops to argue with him about the best way to send me there. It was the newyorkiest thing I've ever seen. "He doesn't want to go that way, send him this way", "if you want to send him that way you might as well send him this other way".