Another reason to keep fighting
ITT: Butthurt Americans who haven't overcome their childhood conditioning and can't accept that the American way of doing things isn't superior.
I’m sorry but if you can’t measure my property in A-10 Warthogs then how am I going to know how big it is?
While I agree in principle, can we not be dicks about this? This reminds me of the pathetic slapfights Brits have with Americans about the pointless differences between US and British English. A COOKIE'S A FOCKING BISCUIT MATE, IT'S THE BLOODY QUEEN'S ENGLISH YA FILTHY YANK
“ abandoned after July 21, 1925, when the Soviet Union adopted the metric system, per the order of the Council of People's Commissars.”
Truly, the People’s Government! :stalin-shining:
I used to not care about the metric vs imperial nonsense until I got into preparing my own food and making meals because I wanted to get real precise on my calories and macros. Some recipe calls for a "cup" of strawberry. How much actually IS that? If you use big ass strawberries you're actually using less than if put pureed strawberries in there. Or an "ounce" of something by volume can be way different from an "ounce" by weight. It's impossible to use imperial and know actual how much of something to use if you want to be precise.
Your problem with measuring the volume of strawberries is not because of imperial units.
Get an empty measuring cup. Get another container with an opening with a smaller circumference, fill it completely with water and hold it above the cup. Place a strawberry inside the container - the water that empties into the cup will be equal to its volume. Set that strawberry aside - it has been measured. Refill the container. Dunk the second strawberry, etc. Repeat until the cup is full of water. You will have measured out an exact cup of strawberries (i.e. 238 mL).
whenever I have to drill something and I have to use a 5/32” drillbit, I get unreasonably mad at how fucking stupid it is that there isn’t a smaller unit of measurement than an inch
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I get you, but carpentry in metric sucks so much.
Edit: Is anyone who downvoted me because they don't mind carpentry in metric gonna say something?
How so? I’ve never done carpentry but I want to learn how a measuring system affects different jobs
Imperial tends towards the use of fractions and a unit of 12 is more composite than anything divisible by 10, which makes the math easier. Metric gets you weird decimals and division/multiplication by less friendly numbers that takes a second, is more error prone, and needs to be double checked.
It's more the fault of using a base 10 number system than anything else.
So like if you need 3/4 of a foot for something, then it’s easier in imperial than metric
Yes, but suppose you cut that in half. 9 inches minus a blade is 8 7/8, divided by 2 gives you 4 and 7/16.
That is quick to do in your head and there was very little room for error. If you had to do that in metric, you're having to do division with 6 significant figures.
Lets say 100 mm, minus a 3.175 mm blade gives you uhhh 96.825, divided by 2 and that's wait, let me get my phone to make sure one minute OK that's 48.4125.
If you add arbitrary measurements back together, it just gets you even worse numbers, whereas imperial stays with fractions of powers of 2 and tends to stay at the same denominator or even simpler ones more frequently than metric will let you work with fewer significant figures.
As we all know, carpentry is the only form of manual labor that exists.
“Actually, trying to learn about other workers’ experiences and form new opinions based on those experiences is not dialectical and totally liberal”
metric is fine for everything except measuring a person's height, feet just feel right for that
also the temperature in the weather report. The Fahrenheit scale just fits how temperature feels. 0 is cold and 100 is hot. Above 100 is super hot and below 0 is super cold. Water freezing at 30-whatever degrees is a price I'm willing to pay.
Your mind is held hostage by the imperial system. You only think it's better for everyday things because you use it every day
