What fleeting practicality measuring in feet and inches has exists only on a limited scale, and when you're dealing with anything larger than a mile or smaller than an inch you're back to that base 10 you so loathe.
What I was trying to say is that calling imperial measurements "standard measurements" is absurd considering that there's only a couple of countries that use it as a system.
Okay fair nuff, which is why I've also called them "traditional measurements" and clarified elsewhere that calling them "imperial" is bullshit invented by neoliberals to tie older systems to the British Empire.
Clearly it was only adopted by a socialist country facing capitalist encirclement in order to better facilitate international trade, which was necessary to build up Soviet productive forces.
Or, hear me out now, a scale that fluctuates between base 10 and base 12 is a pain in the arse to work with when you're working on large scale engineering projects.
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What fleeting practicality measuring in feet and inches has exists only on a limited scale, and when you're dealing with anything larger than a mile or smaller than an inch you're back to that base 10 you so loathe.
This proves how terrible our political beliefs are. :very-intelligent:
I believe you've missed my point somewhat.
What I was trying to say is that calling imperial measurements "standard measurements" is absurd considering that there's only a couple of countries that use it as a system.
Okay fair nuff, which is why I've also called them "traditional measurements" and clarified elsewhere that calling them "imperial" is bullshit invented by neoliberals to tie older systems to the British Empire.
Okay, so what neoliberal was responsible for the USSR's adoption of metric?
Clearly it was only adopted by a socialist country facing capitalist encirclement in order to better facilitate international trade, which was necessary to build up Soviet productive forces.
Or, hear me out now, a scale that fluctuates between base 10 and base 12 is a pain in the arse to work with when you're working on large scale engineering projects.
So you agree that it makes far more sense for insulated pencil pushers than it does for proletarian workers?