Maybe the Russians got lost
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Remember the reports that the Ukrainians removed the road signs so the Russians wouldn’t know their way around? Looks like it’s working.
Maybe there were using an old version of Apple Maps? 😃
Mapquest
....and the printer broke.
The injket printer nozzle got clogged and wasted 5 sheets of paper.
😂 … now that brings back some memories. I remember printing directions out back in the day.
And Thomas Guides.....could not even imagine driving to new places without a Thomas Guide back in the day
Nah... It was the Garmin from 2005 that did it. It caused them all to turn into oncoming traffic, off bridges, and into the woods.
Or are they using Internet Explorer?
Netscape!
In the 70’s when the US started posting road signs with kilometers as well as miles, my grandfather said “ that’s so when the damn Russians take over, they won’t even need to change the signs.”
They did that for a few years when Jimmy Carter tried to go Metric system and he quickly gave up. Metric system is way easier to use but you know how we do love 5280 of one thing equals 1 of another and 128 equals 1 etc and not just 1000 / 100/ 10/ 1..
Metrics is way easier for math and science, but the English system does make some sense for everyday use because it formed from everyday experiences. A foot is about the size of a foot so you can quickly approximate size by lining up your feet. A yard is roughly one pace so you can approximate larger distances simply by walking it. Inches really are ideal for measuring construction materials and snowfall, as the smaller metric units of cm and mm are really too accurate for these and the next SI unit up, the dm is too large. The Farenheit temperature scale doesn't make much sense until you realize that he lived in a fishing village on a bay and was more concerned with when the saltwater of the bay would freeze, so based zero on that, and the degree size is more ideal for measuring changes in temperature. The Celsius degrees are too large IMO. No, you don't really want to do things to scientific accuracy using English units, but when we need to do complex calculations, we have SI. So perfect situation.
I'm an engineer who has to work in both systems and I agree. Conversions are way simpler in Metric but most English units are easier to visualize and approximate when you don't have a measuring tool on hand.
And the first digit of my finger is approximately an inch. So that makes it easier for me to measure things when I don't have a ruler around.
America was founded on contrarian ideals, only fitting our way of measurement is as well!
Merica!!!
they told us in HS we needed to learn metric because the US would be metric in a few years. That was 1970.
Ultra based grandfather
Perhaps they are the "Ghost Army in Kyiv"!