Unlike with longer distances and temperature, Americans don't strictly use imperial for shorter distances (m, cm, mm). It's on all of the signs and stuff, but we learn metric in school as well as how to convert to and from. In university-level physics classes, they almost solely use metric. So as an American myself, I didn't bat an eye at him using meters. But if they said that it was 30C outside...
It helps that meters and yards are very similar in size. Of course they drift as the distances get larger but in my mind 300m is a pretty reasonable thing to visualize. Just a tad larger than 300yd—about 3 football fields (Inb4 stereotype)
Km though? I still struggle to compare it to a mile. When someone says "50km" my mind has a hard time imperializing it. What's that, like 35 miles?
Maybe memorizing how the km lines up with the mi on my car speedometer would help.
Lemmy has no chill lol. We might even be more prudish than Reddit. My guess is our demographic skews older so people here don't care for "dank" content as much.
Sounds like a failure to set good expectations. Sure there are times people just don't listen, but if everyone else is saying this kind of thing, maybe there's a common factor...
Agreed. I respect nature and it's beauty but I've never understood hiking.
Best I was every personally motivated to do was climb to The old Man of Storr on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. 5km round trip. Worth it, but cold, raining and very windy the whole.steep-ass way up and down. My wife went 100m up with me and said "Fuck this" and turned around so I ended up doing it alone.