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This post is from 2022-07-13.
This post is from 2022-07-13.
ISO 8601 Meister Rasse
This is THE way.
What does make sense of systems prior to the modern metric system is that they were based on needs and abilities of centuries past, which – surprise! – have changed.
What does NOT make sense is not so much inertia in making change, but people who get all butthurt and complainy when suggested they change practices, like many nitwits in the US. Hell the British did it, we can.
Some of the measures of volume and length make reasonable sense – though the names are funny many are half or double of others, or times 4, or multiples of 2 or 4.
When most people never ventured more than 20 miles from where they were born only traders had to worry about shit like that.
England and the US, prob others I just don’t know, had * local time *, I mean at the town to town level. How would they know they’re different? Few people had portable clocks. That ended with train systems. In the 1840s I think.
I was on a car forum where members complained that the metric system caused the space shuttle explosion, and why can’t we have mercurochrome and hitting children in schools back. Luckily they’re all dying off now.
It’s mostly just people like to attack conversions no one really does. Even with it’s nice easy conversions, the average person isn’t going to tell you how many nanometers are in a megameter, which isn’t qualitatively different than barleycorns in a league.
Science also just invents new units of measure when it’s convenient, light years, parsecs, astronomical units, moles, etc.
Moles are real, not invented by science!
Where is the first picture from? I’ve only seen the statue in Bremen (Germany), but never really looked up what it meant or where it really comes from.
Imperial was based on using body parts and common items to measure things. Inch was about the width of a mans thumb, foot the size of his foot, yard was the length of his arm, etc. But we have more access to things to measure now so like its kinda pointless but just stuck.
this meme is 3.3 burgers/bullet not great not terrible
And now let’s look at our time units… leap years, leap second. A month has 28, 29, 30 or 31 days. A day has 2*12 hours. An hour has 60 minutes or 3600 seconds (Babylonian mathematics :) )
I see room for improvement.
I know its bait, but why do Euros care so damn much if we use a different system? Better than the UK
The world is connected and it’s really annoying to look a YouTube video or some tutorial page and needing to convert every time.
As others have pointed out, it’s not just the Europeans (Australian here). But really it’s because of how prominent the US is. We can’t avoid them more often than we’d like.
Irks me as an engineer whenever I’m forced to use such an annoying set of units in my work. Btu/hr is especially awful. Like it’s got British right there in the name, how embarassing for a system of units touted to be patriotic.
(There are many reasons metic is better, but it’s a foregone conclusion at this point, so I’d rather focus on the petty reasons to soothe my frustration)
It is bait. Human mind can adapt to anything, either it’s metric or imperial, even bananas. However unlike imperial, metric is systematic and you really only need to know one rule: Multiply by 10. It’s also transitive, meaning 1 liter equals to 10 dm^3. Other than this, rest of the world using metric so it’s tedious to being have to convert measurements every time, from both sides.
Also scientists, gun owners and drug dealers already using metric. /j
