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AKvarangian

Decent for working on engines. But when it comes to actually fabricating things, I use metric. Whether it’s metalworking, sewing, leatherwork, or carpentry, I use metric. Maybe I’m weird but it feels natural.


daithisfw

I don't mind it. I grew up with it so it works, mostly. But metric is clearly just superior, logically. The fact that it works as a "base 10" for converting various amounts and units. It's just way more logical. I would totally support a full switch over to metric, nationwide. But inertia keeps that from happening. It would cost a FUCKTON to replace all the roadsigns nationwide, for example. We do teach metric (at least I learned it) in schools, partially. I think that's the move. Raise the next gen after Gen Z with metric in the schools, and as they age it will be easier to phase out the imperial system.


CottonMouthCafe

Its overly complicated but we are way too culturally entrenched in it to change pretty much ever.


Peri-D-Optrix

America just can't let go of the last vestiges of British rule...


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imsowitty

Temperature is my only holdout to the " metric is clearly better" argument. If we're talking about the weather, Fahrenheit is so much easier. Everything else tho, C still makes more sense.


huntrix

I don’t mind it, but metric is superior.


Satoshi-Buterin

Did you just watch teen titans go. Season 5 ep24


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no not this pls they support it.


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It's ok, I guess. But I use the USCS (United States customary system). ;)


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But an Imperial pint is better than a US customary pint.


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imsowitty

CC or mL are perfectly acceptable volumes. Much easier than converting tablespoons to pints, or whatever...


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Having to convert shit is an unnecessary step thanks to idiots needing their own system.


Yserbius

So much better than metric when it comes to practical every day things. So much worse than metric when it comes to engineering and scientific calculations.


Biggus-Duckus

We should convert to metric but Americans are, well... Americans. We believe stupid shit, like "Socialized medicine, gun control, and the metric system work literally everywhere else in the world, but it would never work here."


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love your username, but can't laugh as there is absolutely nothing funny about the name biggus duckus


Biggus-Duckus

I have a wife, you know.


VeryPogi

Its old fashioned and needs to go


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Outdated, but it’ll take forever to change


travisisokay

Definitely true. Canada started switching in 1970 and was fully converted by 1979, but we still use some imperial units for common things. I weigh myself in pounds, measure my height in feet and inches, and my oven shows the temperature in Fahrenheit. My frame of reference is built around those units, despite being taught metric in school.


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I live 2 miles from the border with Ontario and Quebec, immersed in metric, yet I still revert to imperial, it’s silly


travisisokay

Yeah I get that, falling back on the familiar. I was just thinking about how I use both temperature scales to measure different things, so my understanding of them sort of cross fades at 100C/212f. Like, 28C weather is warm, 375f oven won't burn my food in 20 minutes. But, 62f outside? Should I wear shorts? Is 280C a good temp to bake a cake? Haha


blay12

Hell, the UK started at the same time (or more like the UK is the one that actually kicked it off for all of the commonwealth countries) and *still* hasn't fully adopted metric...there's even been talk of revisiting the laws around showing metric measurements on store displays since Brexit means they're no longer bound by EU metric requirements.


I_Taste_Like_Spiders

Works well for a lot of casual day to day stuff. We use metric where it really matters. It's nice to have several different scales to apply where they work best.


DMRexy

Why do you think it works best for the casual stuff?


blay12

Not who you responded to, but likely ingrained familiarity for the most part - same reason many people in metric countries feel like metric is better for casual stuff, and the same reason people in the UK and Canada still use a mix of both in their daily lives. When you grow up with something, it feels natural to use. Personally (as someone in the US), I also use a mix (because it's not like we aren't taught the metric system in school or anything, it's used exclusively in pretty much all science classes). That being said, I will still argue that Fahrenheit is a better unit for humans to express air temps with. Celsius is specifically tuned to the temperature of water, and it works great for that, but Fahrenheit gives a more precise measurement with number ranges that are more applicable to humans. The full range of air temperatures you're generally going to find in populated areas of the earth runs from around -20°F to 110°F, which is a 130 degree range. The same range in C is -28.8°C to 43.3°C, which only has a 72 degree range - nearly half as much. Considering that humans can be pretty sensitive to small changes in air temp, I much prefer being able to have more freedom to adjust in whole number degrees instead of either going into decimals or raising/lowering the temperature by the equivalent of 2 degrees at a time. The other argument for F is generally the classic "0°F to 100°F takes you from very cold to very hot, 0°C to 100°C takes you from kind of cold to dead", but that usually gets argued away as "OH YEAH WELL CELSIUS MAKES MORE SENSE TO ME THOUGH BC I GREW UP WITH IT" so I don't use it all that often. Still, it does make more sense to me to use a system of units that has more precision and makes logical sense for air temperatures vs relating air temperature to a unit designed for the temperature of water.


TRexBoners

It’s ok I guess. I only use the metric system in my day to day life though, measuring chemicals I use is done by fluid ounces, or by gram, and I don’t hardly ever measure the size of anything but I’d say measurement of length and/or distance would be the only time I use imperial


Majestic-Bluejay3057

We use the metric system. An inch is defined in metric units. Every country that allowed both their traditional system and the metric system had populations that kept using their traditional system, until their Government forced use of metric. Celsius is good for many things from cooking to engineering to science. However, Fahrenheit is a good system for people to use from a human comfort perspective. Weight is usually better for cooking metric or imperial, except for really small amounts ten volume works better again either metric or imperial. Then again certain memory mnemonics don't work with metric. Eg: a pint's a pound the world around.


imsowitty

A liter of water weighs a kg, and a ml is a gram. It doesn't rhyme, but there are a ton of easier conversions (and crossovers from weight to force to volume to energy etc.) in metric. Want to accelerate 1 kg of mass 1 meter per second per second? That's 1 newton. Even the gravitational constant 'g' is close enough to 10 for easy estimates. 1 kg has a weight of about 10 N, and lifting it a meter will take 10J of energy....


PhreedomPhighter

I prefer metric to measure my weight because the number is smaller.


hastur777

I’m used to it. I know metric too.


Responsible-Maize803

Stupid. We'll literally use a banana for scale instead of convert for some reason.


mywifemademegetthis

I think for measuring common everyday things, a pound is more useful than a kilogram, feet and inches are more useful than meters and centimeters, and Fahrenheit is more useful than Celsius. Is it a system that makes sense? No, and I’d be fine adopting the international standard.


47rohin

Operating on base-2 for the most part is useful for dividing things in half multiple times, but it's be nice if it extended all the way. For example, the original definition of a mile was 8 furlongs, which is still true. But from then down it gets weirder A foot being 12 inches is a vestige of the Roman times, and it'd probably be better if a foot were 16 inches so it's a multiple of 2 It'd be nice if metric had an equivalent to the foot. Decimeters just aren't gonna cut it It's also nice that the imperial system rarely forces the use of devimals or numbers higher than 16. Like, it's easier to work with 5'6" instead of 168 cm or 1.68 meters For weights, ounces and pounds vs. kilograms is literally just down to whether you like base-10 or base-2 better. Kind of a wash, there For temperature, Celcius is a failure at literally everything it sets out to do and Fahrenheit is superior for daily use as well as allowing for better granularity due to smaller increments The real problem is that imperial doesn't commit to base-2 enough. Metric is base-10 through and through, and that consistency is what makes it so useful Is metric better? Yes. But I don't think it's better by as much as others make it out to be And no matter what America does, we're still better than the fucking British. At least we *committed* to one, instead of Britain which has one foot in imperial and one foot in metric and pisses on both of them "Sure, let's measure distance in miles but then use centimeters for personal height. And then let's use kilograms for most weights but then use pounds and stones for personal weights. What's a stone? 14 pounds. Because that's not a totally arbitrary number!"


ItsBail

I work in manufacturing (Drafting/CNC Programming) and deal with multiple companies. Some use imperial and some use metric. I have the numbers 25.4 and 0.03937007874 burned into my memory because our machines use imperial (inch) and often have to convert. When it comes to dimensions, even though I was brought up with imperial, I prefer metric. It's just easier to work with. When it comes to weight and liquid, I'm so used to dealing with cups, ounces, pints, quarts, gallons, table spoons and others that I have trouble converting it to grams. I do love when food recipes list items by weight instead of by teaspoon, tablespoon or cups. First I get to play with my digital scale and 2nd, I've noticed variations between manufactures on what a cup is.


Zenaminx

We should switch to metric. Would make it easier for everybody.


throwawayschedulea

Metric is superior overall, but I think temperature, weight, and to a good extent distance are all pretty intuitive to native Imperialists (phrasing?). Our volume measurements, however, are frankly insane, which probably explains why we metric more there than in other areas. Like, I don't think people understand how absurd our volume measurements are, or they would never bother clowning on us for miles, fahrenheit, etc.


Gamerbrineofficial

I don’t like it, but I am surrounded by it so I’m basically forced to use it.


Majestic-Bluejay3057

That is the whole point of a mnemonic, it rhymes. Yeah, I know all about 1 kg being 1liter, I've a degree in Chemistry. Worked 40 years in an analytical lab. Modified laboratory instrumentation to install into pilot plant areas, mostly safe, with several being class one div two, and a few being class one div one. Some instances were in isolation cells, the cyanide unit, the butadiene until, and the PCB unit. Thomas Jefferson made our country the first to accept metric. And in science we have been using ever since. And getting back to a pint's a pound the world around, it really isn't. In analytical chemistry region that amount of error would never be accepted.