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I think at this point, “metric folks” are the majority and “imperial folks” are the stubborn minority
by elliottkember 3y ago
I think at this point, “metric folks” are the majority and “imperial folks” are the stubborn minority
- rootusrootus 3y agoSure. But it's the constant bitching about it. We know, we know, you [metaphorically, not you personally necessarily] like metric better. The US uses metric for all kinds of things, in fact! And the UK still uses imperial for some things. Conversions are not hard, and hearing people bitch about it in every thread is tedious.
- jorvi 3y agoAside from some internet memery, no one cares too much if you use metric or imperial, but mixing the two is a special kind of accursed. Metric is more clean. Example: you have a cube of 1 meter, filled halfway with water. You can calculate the volume of water as being 1 * 1 * 0.5 cubic meter. 1 cubic meter is 1000 liter (ho ho, the magic already manifests), so 0.5 cubic meter is 500 liter. I even know the approximate weight is 500kg, as 1 liter of water ≈ 1 kilo. Doing this in cubic yards/feet + fluidic ounce + pounds is not even in the same universe in terms of elegance or ease-of-use. Swapping the fluidic ounce to liter does not solve that and probably introduces whackier ratios. That does not mean you are a bad person for using imperial, but stating that "its easy to convert" isn't wholly fair either.
- tomjakubowski 3y agoquite relevant essay: stubbornness as a minority is power https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dictatorship-of-the-small-minority-3f1f83ce4e15 https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...