• themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yes, that’s the point. The imperial system has been succesful and remains popular because people do carry around (rough) scales with us most of the time, and because the advantage of being accurate and scalable really isn’t that useful in day to day living. Having a single unit of measure for the length of a aheet of paper and the distance to the nearest city isn’t a significant advantage for most people in most applications. I don’t need to know how many inches are in a mile, because the conversion usually isn’t necessary. The point of the metric system you’ve described has no advantage in most normal use cases, and we use it when it does have an advantage.

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      1 year ago

      What do you mean “remain popular”? The imperial system has roughly 500 million users. While metric has over 7 billion.

      And even in the countries where imperial is used, the scientific community in them still use metric.

      How can you even attempt to talk about the advantage of normal use, when you don’t even know how to use them?

      Metric is a tool. Just because you don’t know how to use the tool, doesn’t mean it’s not advantageous.

      Ofc conversions in imperial isn’t necessary, it’s gibberish. No normal person will be able to relate the two.

      Your argument boils down to you telling us writing is pointless because no one knows how to read.

      Ofc they can’t read when there’s nothing to read.

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        How can you even attempt to talk about the advantage of normal use, when you don’t even know how to use them?

        Metric is a tool. Just because you don’t know how to use the tool, doesn’t mean it’s not advantageous.

        Ofc conversions in imperial isn’t necessary, it’s gibberish. No normal person will be able to relate the two.

        Are you under the impression that Americans don’t know how to use the metric system? We learn to use it in elementary school. We regularly go between the two and relate them to each other.

        Your comment is unnecessarily arrogant based on complete ignorance.