The Metric System

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    also #conspiracy_OTD

    I think the US doesn't go metric because it will hurt moral.
    It will mean losing face and admitting that the US has a faulted core value and can learn from the rest of the world (that opens a pandora box).
    It also helps to keep the US population dumb by making it more difficult for them to understand metric measurements.

    There are the common claims of the cost of the change, but I wouldn't be surprised if in the long run it costs the US more to maintain the constant conversion, pay for mistakes caused by overlook and faulty conversion and upkeep the isolation of its populus.

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    • I find it hard to believe lobby groups of scientists, engineers and industrialists that say the metric is bad. They are shillssofas
    • I mean who doesn't find it hard to understand 16¾ flangeguts make up one brakflart?face_melter
    • Or that it is 1251 chuglards between New York and Los Angeles?face_melter
    • LOL @facesofas
    • I measure distances in kellicams.Continuity
    • I'm metric, but there's a certain inate comprehension in nominated measurements such as inch or feet when working with physical objectsdetritus
    • Saying that, i was probably in my early-twenties when I found out what a 'yard' is!detritus
    • I learned metric in school in Canada. TBH, I wouldn't know an inch, yard, or pound if it slapped me in the face.Continuity
    • My father is convinced we switched to metric to scam more sales tax of people. Somehow.i_monk
    • FREEDOM UNITESsofas
    • *units :(
      https://www.urbandic…      sofas
    • lol, the metric system isn't a core valuemonospaced
    • and fucking lol @ insinuating that people in the US aren't able to comprehend the metric system ... absolutely ridiculous.monospaced
    • and uber-fucking-lol @ assuming the US uses only the Imperial system ... we use the metric system all the timemonospaced
    • Why would anyone want a system based on logical units of 10s, 100s, 1000s etc? I much prefer working in dozens and fractions.ETM
    • "Hey Bill, adjust those margins by 0.078in."
      "You mean 2mm, Bill?"
      "I said 0.078", you twat!"      ETM
    • @mono maybe not core value but very important?
      where did I insinuate? didn't mean to.
      I know many use it, I meant in general.      sofas
    • sorry if I offended anyone, that wasn't the pointsofas
    • it's not a core value, it's just the system brought here by the geniuses in the UK, and which we keptmonospaced
    • you insinuated that people are "dumb" because they use the imperial system, and also that it's difficult to learn the metric system, both ridiculous claimsmonospaced
    • Isn't there, like, only two places that use Imperial - the US and the 1700's?face_melter
    • I think it's easier to lean the metric and people are not dumb if they don't know it, just ignorant, and I don't hold it against themsofas
    • "[The Imperial System] also helps to keep the US population dumb by making it more difficult for them to understand metric measurements."monospaced
    • "a faulted core value"monospaced
    • mono your right, lousy wording on my partsofas
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