Yes, of course this is tongue in cheek, but it’s the “ha-ha… but serious” type of humour.

Just look at this map: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_date_formats_by_coun...

You’re almost entirely alone in these backwards practices!

Well, not entirely alone, you also have Liberia following your “standards”! There’s two of you! Must be nice.

PS: If Trump actually wanted to make US exports competitive on the world market, step one would be to adopt world standards like metric.

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sebastiennight 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Everytime Liberia is mentioned, I think of two things:

1. That Mickael Jackson song

2. The time that a US president asked the president of Liberia "where he learned English" because he spoke English so well

And now I'll add to my list a third item:

3. Being one of an elite set of countries to use freedom units

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croemer 5 days ago | parent [-]

Liberia using freedom units is not at all a coincidence. Liberia was essentially a US colony where the colonialists were freed US slaves.

From Wikipedia:

> Liberia began in the early 19th century as a project of the American Colonization Society, which believed that black people would face better chances for freedom and prosperity in Africa than in the United States. Between 1822 and the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, more than 15,000 freed and free-born African Americans, along with 3,198 Afro-Caribbeans, relocated to Liberia. Gradually developing an Americo-Liberian identity, the settlers carried their culture and tradition with them while colonizing the indigenous population. Led by the Americo-Liberians, Liberia declared independence on July 26, 1847, which the U.S. did not recognize until February 5, 1862.

	▲	IMTDb 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		The name Libera also comes from "liber" which means freedom. So it makes sense they would be using freedom units and freedom ways of writing dates; it's in the name.

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dghlsakjg 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You are on a site hosted in that backwards country, funded by people from that backwards country, using technology initially developed by that backwards country, on a thread about new SOTA technology originating from that backwards country, almost certainly using software and hardware from that backwards country to spout offensive things about that backwards country.

Maybe the US isn't as backwards as you might believe, or maybe Airbus is a backwards company for using feet and knots? Perhaps different measurement systems have their virtues (give me an exact integer representation of 1/3 of a meter. For a foot it is 4 inches. For a yard it is 1 foot or 12 inches.)

For the record, the US made the metric system the preferred system of measurement 50 years ago. So you are also uninformed in your attempted insult about US exports (1975, Metric Conversion Act). Americans also learn about the metric system in school, and are more than capable of using it when it matters (the American weapons that Europe and Ukraine seem so fond of use the metric system).

I don't live in the US, but I have lived there in the past, and making sweeping insults about 400 million people is something I learned not to do.

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whimsicalism 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

at least we are not on of those poor countries that uses both MDY and DMY