It's almost like they want something out of it. You don't ever hear them go off about Liberia or Myanmar (who also use the imperial system), only America. They bitch and moan about a McDonalds that got built up the street from them, then insist we use their system of measurement, and for what? So they can steal our research? So they don't have to do "hard" math when they visit? There's nothing Americans could gain by switching. It would just cost us tons of money.
Why do yuropoors insist that we switch to metric?
Ethan Adams
Austin Cox
Because our system of measure is fucking retarded. Even the military uses the metric system.
Just watch most of these retards with a ruler, they just guesstimate everything under a 1/4". That's why shit is always built so loose and fucked up.
Kayden Moore
It's objectively a retarded fucking system. If you've ever done any sort of physics or chemistry with imperial units, you'd know that, you have to add in random coefficients to equation everywhere to try to unfuck it. What would otherwise be simple dimensional conversions or estimations become clusterfucks because none of the units relate well to each other. I think most of your universities and research companies are using metric by now anyway for this exact reason. I get that for the common populace it's going to be hard to switch because it's so ingrained and because of pride, but at this point that's literally the only reason.
Juan Watson
The metric system is an INTERNATIONALLY recognised decimalised system of measurement.
Do we even need to explain why humans need to cooperate globaly, based on the same foundation, when it comes to science?
Are you that retarded?
Mason Carter
All standards of measure are relative, unless using Planck length and deriving all other units of measure off this. good day.
Leo Scott
Just another thing for the US to copy
Eli Morgan
speaking of being objectively retarded, how about that conventional flow of electricity, eh?
Sebastian Johnson
>If you've ever done any sort of physics or chemistry with imperial units,
Therein lies the problem. The majority of Americans don't do physics or chemistry in their daily lives.
Customary units, which is what the US uses (not imperial), is better for day-to-day calculations. The units are more natural, human centered.
Thomas Cruz
I like the system we have now where serious scientific, commercial, and military applications use metric, while laypeople use imperial for their daily lives.
Metric is better for serious applications, it's harder to make mistakes, it works best for actual science, abstract figures, conversions, etc. Imperial is more human-friendly: it has more convenient relations to everyday lives and everyday applications. I find measuring things in my everyday life more human-scaled when I talk about feet, cups, ounces, etc. There are more useful intermediate scales as well. I don't really care what Europeans choose to use.
Asher Ramirez