I'll start. Fahrenheit is the superior temperature system for weather reporting. We should use metric for literally everything else, even Celsius for cooking, but I'll be dead in the cold ground before I abandon a system in which you actually get to experience both 0 degrees and 100 degrees. Freezing being 32 instead of 0 is literally the only downside, and it's not a hard number to remember. I'm prepared to die on this hill in the comments.

    • Fakename_Bill [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      To up the ante further:

      Base 10 is dogshit. It only divides evenly by 5 and 2. Base 12 is better, because it divides by 2,3,4, and 6. And you can still count on your fingers. Your four non-thumb fingers each have three segments. That's 12. Use your thumb to mark them while counting.

    • Irockasingranite [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      it’s much easier for anyone to visually subdivide and guess at an inch or an inch subdivision because the inch is a little better scaled to the human eye to be able to subdivide, and taking a known measure and dividing it in half, then half again works better in the human mind than taking the same measure and dividing by 10

      I think it's just whatever you grow up with. I grew up with metric and can gauge distances in centimeters and meters pretty well, but would have a hard time trying to mentally measure something in feet or inches, or 16ths of an inch.

      in machining they measure in ‘thous’ which is .001 inch. .001" is about as accurate as you can machine on a fairly well-maintained manual machine. You measure precision an order of magnitude better than you machine, so the measurements you take are accurate to a ‘tenth’, .0001" ideally.

      That just sounds like metric with extra steps...

      The whole base 10 / metric thing is just the classic enlightenment project where they go too far with a good concept and get rid of valuable human knowledge ways. Thank god that the metric time and calendar shit was not adopted.

      I don't know what you're talking about, clearly the tenday is the superior unit of time.