Yeah, but have you considered that I don't want to use the same units as the It*lians?
Consider money. You have a mutual aid program with one thousand dollars that it needs to give to three equally-needy people. How the fuck are you going to give each of them $333.33 repeating money? Absolute bullshit.
The old money system was far more rational. Two-hundred forty pennies to a dollar was a pretty common way to break it up. That breakup allowed each dollar to be split evenly among 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 16, 20, 24, 30, 40, 48, 60, 80, 120, and 240 of your fellow workers. Compare that to the modern, decimalized dollar, which can only be split evenly between 2, 4, 5, 10, 20, 25, 50, and 100 of your fellow proletarians.
It’s not just money that suffers from decimalization though, it’s damn-near everything. What the fuck is 30 centimeters? Oh, it’s about as long as a foot. Why not just use a foot? Do you know how long a foot is? It’s about as long as A FUCKING FOOT! HOW MUCH IS 235 MILLILITERS? IT’S ABOUT AS LARGE AS A CUP! ISN’T OUR SYSTEM IS SO MUCH MORE LOGICAL THAN THE OLD SYSTEM OF A CUP BEING ABOUT AS LARGE AS A CUP!
You might be thinking “oh you’re just a dumb provincial American, get used to the metric system and it isn’t so bad.” Motherfucker the beautiful thing about the old measurement system is that you never have to “get used” to fucking anything, because the measurements are based on practical shit. The only practical measurement in the whole fucking metric system is the liter, and that’s because they made it almost indistinguishable from a quart.
BuT hOw MaNy QuArTs ArE iN a GaLlOn? Listen here you common core chucklefuck. Saying that it’s easier to remember metric because it’s all in tens or hundreds or whatever is just pasting a bandaid over the problem, which is that our education system has had all practical skills systematically rooted out of it. I remember taking Home Ec when I was in middle school and I damn well learned what all of the common measurements were by applying them to real life shit. This metric bullshit is designed to be easier to memorize when you read about it in a textbook.
Who would design this disaster? The French took a break from their rampant Islamophobia and Antisemitism to create this bullshit. But it wasn’t the French people, who continued to use traditional units of measure until the new systems were forced upon them, it was the post-revolutionary Bourgeoisie, who had never cut wood or measured flour in their fucking lives, who said “hon hon, let us introduce a new measurement system, oi oi” and infected the world with this plague.
Metric is idealistic nonsense imposed by rich assholes that is increasingly being favored over the materialist, proletarian traditional measurements. The only reason it has any continuing cultural purchase at all is because PMC dipshits like to lord how much smarter they are over everyone. Look inside yourself and destroy any vestige of a hold the metric system has on you, just as through self reflection you should seek to destroy all other forms of liberalism.
Ah yes the classic "the bourgeoise are actually interested in reducing productivity"
Broke: The USSR is not a true communist state because of the gulags and state capitalism
Woke: The USSR is not a true communist state because they switched from arshin to meter in their rifle sights
Yes but also metric is useful in science because base 10 makes unit conversion intuitive
Base 12 gang gang! Can count to twelve on one hand, 144 if you use both.
Using your thumb, count on each finger the tip, first and second folds. You get to 12
Could be. But if you're counting in base 12 then you can treat one hand as single digits, and the other as sets of 12. Technically you could do the same in base 5 to count to 25 using whole fingers on two hands.
I know this is just a copypasta but,
The benefit of a measurement system isn't whatever neat trick you can do with the numbers, the real utility comes from everyone agreeing to use it.
. That breakup allowed each dollar to be split evenly among 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 16, 20, 24, 30, 40, 48, 60, 80, 120, and 240 of your fellow workers.
:debatebro-l: I need to split the money evenly between myself and six of my fellow workers, get owned
counterpoint: those people, like with noodles, happened to adopt the metric system from a superior civilization* so its cool and good
*by this I mean China ofc, its my headcanon historical accuracy be damned
The post title metricked me, thought this was going somewhere else.
Unironically, the US customary system is really useful for things like carpentry and machining where fractions are important. You can easily divide most measurements by 2, 3, 4, 6, and 12.
Most tradesmen in my family hate metric, but then agian only 2 understand it so :shrug-outta-hecks:
Also, metric superiority is usually a real reddit brain style take. Only people I know who irl who insist on metric are scientists who have little experience outside the lab, or one programmer who thinks Europe is a utopia and all manual laborers are dumb rednecks. Americans should just learn both tbh.
How does this make sense? Couldn't you just measure anything you needed in cm or mm??
imperial units are roughly base twelve so it's easier to do multiples of 1/3. Marginally beneficial in practice, but imperial isn't entirely pointless.
