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What irks me the most is that you have more than you could ever want or need. Like water. You are sitting on a well of decalitres. In a desert. And everyone is dying of thirst. And some guy says “hey man, you need to give back like 20% of that. And that’s kinda lowkey generous tbh.” And their response is literally like “no.”
Just. When is that rocket to the sun scheduled for completion already???
Uh I don't thing deciliter is the unit you want lol
I’m stunned people still do this. In 2025.
What does have to do with it? I had no idea what scale you meant because I'd forgotten the extremely rarely used prefix deca. Plus even decaliters isn't really a lot when talking about hoarding water. Maybe literal cubic meters.
Yeah, a decalitre would just be a bucket of water.
You want exalitres.
It's not too rare when using the (superior) metric system.
With the exception of deci and centi, I know literally nobody who uses prefixes that aren't multiples of 1000. I've been using the metric system all my life. Have you?
Yeah. I have, I wasn't thinking much, early morning today. I'm used to seeing more of them in my career, but I guess it's not really "common" outside of that. Sorry, didn't want to come off as confrontational.
Fair enough, in some careers you may see them more. In normal day to day life I'd say even decimeters are uncommon. You get deciliters in recipes when cooking, centiliters are often used for alcoholic beverage bottles, centimeters are the most common. Deca I think is especially rare, hecto is something you might see used with pressure (hectopascals apparently are equivalent to millibars), but even that is fairly uncommon in day to day usage.
To be fair, I did learn about deca and hecto in elementary school, but it was so long ago and I haven't really seen them used since lol