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Dimensional lumber tape measure (infosec.pub)

submitted 5 days ago by mko@slrpnk.net to c/woodworking@lemmy.ca

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I hope it’s not against the rules here, just saw this woodworking related xkcd that I enjoyed and thought it might be appreciated here:)

https://xkcd.com/3138

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[–] RougeEric@lemmy.zip 70 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Have you hard of our lord and savior, the metric system?

[–] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

???

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 17 points 4 days ago

We have but Canada sells so much construction supplies to the US that we don’t use metric for it.

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Even metric is under-sized on dressed timber 4x2" ~ 100x50mm => 90x45m dressed