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[–] tal@lemmy.today 7 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

This is a Canadian publication.

EDIT:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Narwhal

The Narwhal is a Canadian investigative online magazine that focuses on environmental issues.[1][2]

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, a lot of Americanisms have infected Canada due to our historically extremely close trade and cultural relationship with them. Measurement ignorance is one example. Some Americanisms actually become arguably worse in Canada, because we are effectively rudderless, pulled in all different directions by both our own laws and customs and American laws and customs at the same time, resulting in an even less well-defined choice of units. Another example is dates. The US uses mm/dd/yy which is already stupid on its own, but Canada uses BOTH mm/dd/yy and dd/mm/yy seemingly without rhyme or reason, which results in complete ambiguity of many dates, or trying to figure out based on context, looking for other dates that might use a day number >12 to identify which one actually is the day vs the month.

It's awful. I am happy we are distancing ourselves from the US right now, but I'm not sure it will ever be enough to totally escape their shadow.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 50 minutes ago)

The US uses mm/dd/yy which is already stupid on its own, but Canada uses BOTH mm/dd/yy and dd/mm/yy seemingly without rhyme or reason

Maintains our cognitive health. Can't just look at a date and know what it is without doing math and logic (method of exclusion)!

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

yeah, we have fucking idiots who have no idea what a kilogram is.

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Maybe if we tricked them into saying, like, "as heavy as a three hundred kilogram box of bricks"