• niph [she/her]
    hexbear
    1
    2 months ago

    It would, except.. they use it to measure the amount of water in swimming pools.

      • niph [she/her]
        hexbear
        1
        2 months ago

        Yeah my metricpilled brain instantly noped out when I found that out

    • @roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      hexbear
      2
      edit-2
      2 months ago

      I've also heard it used in relation to water rights. For example, sometime has the right to extract a certain number of acre-feet from a stream over some amount of time.