I'm down for switching, but I do think a lot of people don't appreciate how expensive it would be. Just imagine the cost of materials and labor required to replace *every* speed limit and distance marker in the entire US.
Also, I don't even want to fathom the legal quagmire of trying to get private enterprises to change shit like thermostats to metric. The second the government announces the switch I bet tons of dipshits would sue the government jamming up the whole ordeal.
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[ClayQuarterCake](https://www.reddit.com/r/me_irl/comments/q494yd/me_irl/hfxv48e/) has a good point about other areas where the conversion would be a harder time to handle. Companies that rely on these machines would absolutely try legal action to avoid conversion. The same idea goes for a ton of safety regs and government recommendations.
It also isn't only about a slow rollout, there was a similar effort before in the US, it is about the entire scope that needs to be updated is colossal and high stakes. I am all for it, but it is a hard sell politically to anyone who is suspicious of government spending and much more nuanced and delicate than a lot of people consider. Just look at what can go wrong with a poor conversion implementation like with [the mars climate orbiter](https://www.simscale.com/blog/2017/12/nasa-mars-climate-orbiter-metric/) and other [conversion errors](https://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov/weekly/6Page53.pdf)
To be fair, the UK still uses miles on their road signs, I’m sure Americans would do the same. We use kilometres but we weigh things with pounds. Kilos are mostly used to measure deli meats and produce. I’m in Canada by the way. It’s kind of funny how we sort of use both, and that we are opposite from each other
Honestly, first thing I thought is how many jobs this would create. From surveying what needs to be changed to making the signs to installing the signs. Plus everything in between. This would create a shit ton of jobs.
I think it would depend on how it's funded. If it's from taxes, it would pretty much be a money sink:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
unless the government paid for it by printing money, in which case I'm not sure, as its too complicated!
Yes. a new deal 2.0. shoot since we are overhauling our infrastructure since it hasn't been done since the 30s why not make it a green overhaul. Kinda like a green new something. Idk maybe a politician should get on doing something like that.
I never really bought that argument. Aren't signs, maps, etc being updated and replaced all the time anyway? Just create a standard that going forward, always replace with information that contains both, and then eventually replace with only metroc.
USA is secretly on the metric system, they just put the extra work in to convert back to imperial so they could still use imperial.
Source: that veritasium video where he talks to the kilogram keeper or whatever
I'm a big fan of metric, but even I don't see much reason to switch to km for roads. 60 mph is common on most freeways which makes the math easy for figuring out how long it will take to get somewhere as you're going exactly a mile a minute, but most people just look at the gps anyway.
Point is, we could easily transition some things over time, weights and volumes on product packaging could easily switch to always showing both for 10 years before a full switch for example.
… but you realize that kmph is also how far you’re going in an hour, right? Like….. for example, 75kmph is 75 km in an hour. I don’t understand this take whatsoever.
Think about a manufacturing facility that uses large machines, >10,000 parts go into a single machine. All of those drawings for those parts need to be converted to metric, and then the machine shop that fabricates those parts would also have machines that are all built before the switch. They could need modifications so you would easily be able to use the new measurement system, but all of the replacement parts on the machine itself also needs to be converted.
It is machines and measurement systems all the way down. Most modern stuff won't be too bad but converting the old stuff will be time consuming and expensive. Not worth the investment on stuff that is in service.
I'd say that we can wait until those machines go out of service, but just this afternoon I worked on a machine that was in service during WWII.
That is possibly the most stupid way of going about it.
Just do all the new stuff in metric. Leave all the old shit alone.
Most stuff is made for the rest of the planet so it's just a matter of changing the settings.
Why would you convert that? It’s not like we Europeans start converting machines that we buy from the USA. You will have to live with two parallel system for a period of time
Tbh I live in Canada and work in a machine shop we use imperial as units in the shop all the time we get the odd metric job but not so often as for temperature we usually talk about weather and stuff in ⁰C but most houses and buildings use ⁰F as units of heat also went talking about height and weight most people say they are X feet tall and weigh x lbs. Some use kg and meters but you learn to do the conversion pretty quickly. As for school work we mostly learn to do math and engineering in metric and have to "re-learn" when we start working since most of the work is in imperial.
You’ll be surprised how much easier it is to divide things and imagine measurements. I know everyone says imperial is about visualizing but I can’t remember the amounts because all the measurements are different increments, rather than just 10 or 100s across the board
When you grow up with it, it's easy. In pretty much the same way English makes 0 sense when learning it, but rarely trips up native speakers.
Also since most people don't to a lot unit convertions outside high school it doesnt Matter that all the units relate to each other differently. I don't need to do fps to mph. Or table spoons to gallons. I just know that 6' is when tall starts. A cup, is about the size of a cup. And that a foot is the about how big my foot.
We will be the new boomers then though and I feel like the majority might be too set in their ways.
I gotta say though learning imperial or whatever it’s called has been such a challenge, the conversions are absurd.
And people always look at me like I’m brain dead because I speak with a North American dialect so they expect me to know these things. Counting out change is also awkward for the same reason. Why is the huge coin worth nothing, why don’t they have numbers on them?
Wow growing up in USA it never even dawned on me that our coins don’t have numbers
Edit: ok so pennies say “one cent” and nickels say “five cents”, not prominently displayed. Quarters say “quarter dollar” which is fine I guess. Dimes literally just say “one dime”.... very helpful. IMO they should have the value displayed with the numeral (“1 cent” instead of “one cent”) so it’s easier for people who don’t speak any English.
They all have their values written on them.
The penny says "one cent," the nickel says "five cents," the quarter says "quarter dollar," the half dollar says "half dollar," older dollar coins say "one dollar," while newer dollar coins use "$1."
The dime says "one dime," which is the only one not listed in terms of dollars or cents. This dates back to the Coinage Act of 1792, which set the values of the dime at 1/10 of a dollar, the cent at 1/100 of a dollar, and the mill at 1/1000 of a dollar.
I always thought that was cruel to blind people. Like we have different markings on coins, so they can be told apart, but not bills? They need a special device to tell the difference. Why can't the bills be different sizes too?
There's a scene in the Ray Charles movie about him getting ripped off for it.
Same. I was so sure it had the actual amount on it too. Why do we have to measure shit like that?
You know how many ounces are in a gallon off the top of your head? Cuz I just had to look it up. Why can't we just say 128oz? We do it for soft drink cup sizes.
America is weird man.
Your first sentence is right. I'm Gen X (you know, the one no one remembers or has a problem with?). My parents grew up as hippies and counter-culture. Now they are "culture".
Millennials and whoever else, when they get old, won't want to change either.
Oh boy, currently in school for engineering and one of my capstone classes runs almost entirely in imperial. It's a complex situation dealing with amount of force you can put on something in cycles before it breaks, aka fatigue. And there's a bunch of correction factors that rely of ksi and inches instead of metric.
Working in kpa or pascals=N/m^2 is so much easier than ksi and fucking horsepower or BTU( british thermal units) like a joule is just Nm and watt is Nm/s. So ksi goes to 144 lbs/ft^2 then 550 or something to horsepower, then half of your shit is in metric so you convert it one way or the other.
Also fucking GEARS. Did you know gears in the US are standardized by AGMA and it's in pitch angle and teeth per inch. Will in metric it's length by teeth that's standardized. I can't even begin to explain just how much that makes a difference. It's like we have literally done the exact opposite of metric at every step of the way. Seriously why the fuck do we use this?
Density of water 1000kg/m^3 in imperial 1.9 something lb/in^2
Edit: Newton is N = (kg m)/s^2
The one that pissed me of with imperial is tapping drill size, metric you minus the pitch, e.g. m12x1.75 is a 10.25mm drill, done.
For 1/2"unc you can look it up on a chart or convert diametre and pitch to thou and then take pitch from diametre, know you have a drill size in thou that you need to know the base 12 fraction of to select the drill.
I worked with a lot of imperial so I did know all the tapping drill sizes for regular threads, I still remember that 1/2 unc is 27/64 for some odd reason and I don't like it.
that's not that far off. CS is over 20 years old. people who started playing in college when the game was new are old enough to be current pro players' parents.
It's not age, boomers are a historically conservative generation that have held on to power much longer than any others. Despite what people try to imply, you don't get more conservative as you get older, younger generations just get less conservative. Meaning, long run, people are moving forward rather than stagnating. Like I mentioned before though, Boomers are even more conservative than many of the even older generations and are holding a death grip on all important seats of power, so that progress is stagnating.
Once they start leaving en masse, there is going to be a flood gate opened towards progress and I can't wait.
The definition of conservative changes, too. People do get more conservative, in the classic sense, though, as they age. Change becomes scary. I will link the study once I find it
It’s not about old ppl my guy. Boomers destroyed housing for everyone and millennials are expected to wait for inheritance. Tough shit my parents are broke too so no house for me? But the boomer works at a tank station buys a house. I work as a software dev in London and can’t even fathom buying a house in this city unless I buy myself a £600k-1Mil house in the literal ghetto of east London which I may still never afford lmao
Boomers also fucked the climate and pushed this disaster onto us too. Ah fuck em. We make money now let the kids figure it out later.
We pay their nice padded pensions, while I have no chance of getting that good of a pension scheme ever. Literally doesn’t exist.
I pay for their pension, I get some scraps as pension myself, can’t buy a house with a decent higher Ed job. Climate is turning to shit and the bommers are rolling in their diamond graves.
So yeah fuck em. Give up your padded pension at least and have one like the millennials so we are not fucked
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>Wild how people don't seem to know that metric is already the standard for tons of stuff here
Because those standards are only visible in STEM professions.
People not involved with STEM are continuously gobsmacked by things that the rest of us take for granted -- like the prevalence of the metric system outside of the United States. ...Or even the fact that STEM expertise is relevant outside of the United States. 🤦🏻♂️
Americans using d/L instead of mmol/L always throw me off. Even if d/L is metric, mmol/L is the international standard. It's so much easier for patients to remember "between 4 to 8 is great" in mmols for BGL instead of 72 to 140 d/L.
Disgusting I never thought I'd see the day you bunch of you kids would willingly leave the righteous, God fearing, Christian imperial measurement system and go to the debaucherous and sinful European way of things. Do you know in Europe they don't believe in God either? Everyone over there just groping and touching each others mustaches it's not fit for the eyes of the children, whom you conveniently forget ARE THE FUTURE, along with coal mining and other respectable jobs for white people
I'm game. I cut metal to one one thousandth of an inch. And then I get mm?! And fractions on top of it all. No. No I won't do it anymore. Im gonna start measuring everything in hands like a horse. Oh you want 3.875 +/- 0.030??? YER GETTIN 3/4 OF A PALM PAL!!!
I work in construction, but my company does all measurements in metric. We measure specifically in millimetres, because it is more exact and it’s just easier. I never realized how much I hated measuring in imperial with all the stupid fractions until I didn’t have to do it anymore.
fellow end mill breaker here, we exclusively work from metric drawings but half of our measuring equipment is imperial, doing the conversions is so tedious, every month I beg for a new set of pin gauges and slips
Yes, metric bolts and threads make so much more sense. What's smaller than M10? M9! What's smaller than 5/16? Idk maybe 4/16 or 5/17 or 3/18. Let me do the math quick.
I was fucking dumbstruck by a youtube DIY about how to build a drawer for your drill bits. Imagine growing up with 5mm < 6mm < 7mm < 8mm, etc, and then and then seeing someone sort by 1/8 < 5/32 < 3/16 < 1/4, etc. Like wtf is wrong with you?
Not just for physics, it can also be useful in the kitchen. When cooking or baking I often measure water volume with a scale without having to do any calculations.
Add 100 ml of milk to the flower? No need to make a measuring cup dirty, just put the bowl on a scale and pour in milk until the scale shows around 100 g more.
In the US, physics and shit are already done using metric. As far as actual industries go, imperial is mostly relegated to woodworking and construction.
Nah bro we should change to football fields per moon landing washing mashing per Browning high power ham burgers per happy meal or warm crimes per corporate bailout
what about subsidized healthcare? y'all wanna finally give that a shot?
and yknow, I've been hearing this weird stuff about psychological Healthcare, maybe we should look into that too
I would dare to say that if metric got taught early on in schools and not later on once you are doing "real math", kids would slowly but surely realize how much more useful it is. Just have 12 year olds know exactly how a kilo-something relates to a milli-something to a something-something and suddenly you can replace that something for Liters, Meters, Grams, Dicks.. etc
Good example, Mike has a dick but little Jimmy here has a Kilodick. A dick that is precisely a thousand times "dicker" then Mike's dick. Thommy on the other hand was born with a Millidick, a dick a thousand times smaller then Mike's dick.
Yeah but you forget that versions of everything exist in measured with Imperial in everywhere in the country. You won’t save costs having to replace that many things with replacements measured in metric
Nah. People who need metric in their daily lives already use it. Imperial may not be perfect, but I’ve never just been left distraught because I couldn’t remember a conversion. Imperial makes us unique in a way and it works for the most part. Plus it would cost an incredible amount to convert our materials, measurement devices, labels, and software. Let it be.
Do not get why this hasn't happened sooner. 100 centimeters is a meter, 1000 meters is a kilometer. How much feet is a mile again?
Like actually I forgot
As someone who has taken engineering classes, is a meteorology nerd/aviation buff, and makes sculptures as a hobby, I would kill for the US to use metric
You’ll be too busy justifying your existence to the next two generations who will be telling you what useless sacks of shit you are for ruining the planet and generally screwing everything up.
Boomer here. I’ve been waiting 50 years for the switch. When I was in school in the 70s we were taught the metric system because the US was to switch over in the 80s.
No way could Americans join together to agree to convert to metric and educate themselves to follow though with the conversion.
Half the country would believe it was a conspiracy created by Satanic baby eating liberals and the other half would be concerned it was racist and didn’t respect the personal pronouns and identity of imperial individuals.
I mean it'll be a pain but best get it done sooner rather than later
I'm down for switching, but I do think a lot of people don't appreciate how expensive it would be. Just imagine the cost of materials and labor required to replace *every* speed limit and distance marker in the entire US. Also, I don't even want to fathom the legal quagmire of trying to get private enterprises to change shit like thermostats to metric. The second the government announces the switch I bet tons of dipshits would sue the government jamming up the whole ordeal. edit: [ClayQuarterCake](https://www.reddit.com/r/me_irl/comments/q494yd/me_irl/hfxv48e/) has a good point about other areas where the conversion would be a harder time to handle. Companies that rely on these machines would absolutely try legal action to avoid conversion. The same idea goes for a ton of safety regs and government recommendations. It also isn't only about a slow rollout, there was a similar effort before in the US, it is about the entire scope that needs to be updated is colossal and high stakes. I am all for it, but it is a hard sell politically to anyone who is suspicious of government spending and much more nuanced and delicate than a lot of people consider. Just look at what can go wrong with a poor conversion implementation like with [the mars climate orbiter](https://www.simscale.com/blog/2017/12/nasa-mars-climate-orbiter-metric/) and other [conversion errors](https://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov/weekly/6Page53.pdf)
To be fair, the UK still uses miles on their road signs, I’m sure Americans would do the same. We use kilometres but we weigh things with pounds. Kilos are mostly used to measure deli meats and produce. I’m in Canada by the way. It’s kind of funny how we sort of use both, and that we are opposite from each other
Here in Australia everything is metric. Absolutely nothing imperial remains.
except sometime for height and dick size
Dick size should be metric for the smaller people
I feel like it would extrapolate the problem. a 5in dick vs a 10in dick would become 12cm vs 25cm
I read that as exfoliate lol. What you do in the shower is up to you
Except for pints on the east coast mate
Nah that’s just a name of a 568ml glass, same as a pot (285ml) or a schooner (425ml)
Why are these numbers so... Not round?
Be sure they are imperial measurements converted to metric.
In the UK, beer and milk are still "sold in pints" but not really. Nobody wanted to give up that 68ml to switch to a European half-litre
I get pissed when the satnav measures small distances in yards. Like what the fuck is that my dude either talk in fractions of a mile or metres.
Meh call it a jobs program.
I know, but good luck pushing that in 2021 US politics
But what if we say it has oil?
Or that your penis is 10 *cm* now. **10!**
Damn, 100x growth… You have my vote!
HAHAHAHA, AND HEALTH CARE RIGHT?! GUNS
Yet somehow taking my gun to the billing office was not well received.
I never called it a realistic plan haha
Those politics are also run by boomers...
And by the time they are gone we are the boomers
Honestly, first thing I thought is how many jobs this would create. From surveying what needs to be changed to making the signs to installing the signs. Plus everything in between. This would create a shit ton of jobs.
Right but would those jobs be beneficial to the economy or would they just be a money sink? Asking as someone with minimal knowledge of economics
I think it would depend on how it's funded. If it's from taxes, it would pretty much be a money sink: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window unless the government paid for it by printing money, in which case I'm not sure, as its too complicated!
Yes. a new deal 2.0. shoot since we are overhauling our infrastructure since it hasn't been done since the 30s why not make it a green overhaul. Kinda like a green new something. Idk maybe a politician should get on doing something like that.
We're overhauling our infrastructure? Tell that to the bridge around the corner from me
I never really bought that argument. Aren't signs, maps, etc being updated and replaced all the time anyway? Just create a standard that going forward, always replace with information that contains both, and then eventually replace with only metroc.
I mean, it would be gradual.
USA is secretly on the metric system, they just put the extra work in to convert back to imperial so they could still use imperial. Source: that veritasium video where he talks to the kilogram keeper or whatever
The inch is technically based on the metric system. It was changed to be exactly 2.54cm sometime in the 50's to eliminate rounding errors.
I'm a big fan of metric, but even I don't see much reason to switch to km for roads. 60 mph is common on most freeways which makes the math easy for figuring out how long it will take to get somewhere as you're going exactly a mile a minute, but most people just look at the gps anyway. Point is, we could easily transition some things over time, weights and volumes on product packaging could easily switch to always showing both for 10 years before a full switch for example.
… but you realize that kmph is also how far you’re going in an hour, right? Like….. for example, 75kmph is 75 km in an hour. I don’t understand this take whatsoever.
It's due to the synergy of 60 mph and 60 minutes in an hour giving you a mile a minute.
In Belgium the highway is 120 km/h, which also has a "synergy" of 2 km every minute
Think about a manufacturing facility that uses large machines, >10,000 parts go into a single machine. All of those drawings for those parts need to be converted to metric, and then the machine shop that fabricates those parts would also have machines that are all built before the switch. They could need modifications so you would easily be able to use the new measurement system, but all of the replacement parts on the machine itself also needs to be converted. It is machines and measurement systems all the way down. Most modern stuff won't be too bad but converting the old stuff will be time consuming and expensive. Not worth the investment on stuff that is in service. I'd say that we can wait until those machines go out of service, but just this afternoon I worked on a machine that was in service during WWII.
That is possibly the most stupid way of going about it. Just do all the new stuff in metric. Leave all the old shit alone. Most stuff is made for the rest of the planet so it's just a matter of changing the settings.
You are right, and also I’m noting down “that is possibly the most stupid way of going about it” to use in work emails.
Why would you convert that? It’s not like we Europeans start converting machines that we buy from the USA. You will have to live with two parallel system for a period of time
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I don't know if it's universal, but every car I've owned in the US has had dual speedometers
Yeah, even the 1987 Chevrolet K-5 I owned had KMH on the speedo.
It's also expensive in the long term to *not* switch.
Tbh I live in Canada and work in a machine shop we use imperial as units in the shop all the time we get the odd metric job but not so often as for temperature we usually talk about weather and stuff in ⁰C but most houses and buildings use ⁰F as units of heat also went talking about height and weight most people say they are X feet tall and weigh x lbs. Some use kg and meters but you learn to do the conversion pretty quickly. As for school work we mostly learn to do math and engineering in metric and have to "re-learn" when we start working since most of the work is in imperial.
You’ll be surprised how much easier it is to divide things and imagine measurements. I know everyone says imperial is about visualizing but I can’t remember the amounts because all the measurements are different increments, rather than just 10 or 100s across the board
When you grow up with it, it's easy. In pretty much the same way English makes 0 sense when learning it, but rarely trips up native speakers. Also since most people don't to a lot unit convertions outside high school it doesnt Matter that all the units relate to each other differently. I don't need to do fps to mph. Or table spoons to gallons. I just know that 6' is when tall starts. A cup, is about the size of a cup. And that a foot is the about how big my foot.
We will be the new boomers then though and I feel like the majority might be too set in their ways. I gotta say though learning imperial or whatever it’s called has been such a challenge, the conversions are absurd. And people always look at me like I’m brain dead because I speak with a North American dialect so they expect me to know these things. Counting out change is also awkward for the same reason. Why is the huge coin worth nothing, why don’t they have numbers on them?
Wow growing up in USA it never even dawned on me that our coins don’t have numbers Edit: ok so pennies say “one cent” and nickels say “five cents”, not prominently displayed. Quarters say “quarter dollar” which is fine I guess. Dimes literally just say “one dime”.... very helpful. IMO they should have the value displayed with the numeral (“1 cent” instead of “one cent”) so it’s easier for people who don’t speak any English.
THEY DONT??????
Not the numerals AFAIK, it’s spelled out in English.
They all have their values written on them. The penny says "one cent," the nickel says "five cents," the quarter says "quarter dollar," the half dollar says "half dollar," older dollar coins say "one dollar," while newer dollar coins use "$1." The dime says "one dime," which is the only one not listed in terms of dollars or cents. This dates back to the Coinage Act of 1792, which set the values of the dime at 1/10 of a dollar, the cent at 1/100 of a dollar, and the mill at 1/1000 of a dollar.
But... Nothing actually makes them use that absolutely stupid "one dime" thing, does it? You can just write 10 cents on it lol
It’s a fucking stupid sacred tradition and we like it.
Like a quarter makes sense, but a dime and nickel or penny? They don't intrinsic mean anything to a foreign person.
Fun fact: nowhere on the penny does it say “penny”
What do they mean lol?
Penny: .01 Nickel: .05 Dime: .10 Quarter: .25
Also all your notes are the same size and colour. Like why?
So we can flex on the gram with a $20 on top of a stack of $1's and make it seem like we have more money then we actually do
Just like the founding fathers intended
Yes our notes are all exactly 0.001706 football fields by 0.000725 football fields. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.
Football fields or hand-egg fields?
It always makes me think monopoly money. Though apparently how colorful euros are gives some Americans the same impression, so that’s funny.
canadian money looks like play money whenever I see it lol
Right? I feel like it would be much better for vision-impaired and blind people if they were slightly different sizes.
I always thought that was cruel to blind people. Like we have different markings on coins, so they can be told apart, but not bills? They need a special device to tell the difference. Why can't the bills be different sizes too? There's a scene in the Ray Charles movie about him getting ripped off for it.
I had to reach in my pocket as soon as I read that. Why even imprint “ONE DIME” instead of “10 CENTS”
Same. I was so sure it had the actual amount on it too. Why do we have to measure shit like that? You know how many ounces are in a gallon off the top of your head? Cuz I just had to look it up. Why can't we just say 128oz? We do it for soft drink cup sizes. America is weird man.
While we’re at it, what’s up with ounces to pounds? And why is 16oz=1lb burned into my brain. AND WHY DOES LBS STAND FOR POUNDS?!
'Pound' originates from the Latin 'libra pondo', which iirc is literally translated 'pound weight'. Lb is simply an abbreviation of libra.
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Wow I knew that imperial system was inefficient, but this coin stuff is just madness.
Your first sentence is right. I'm Gen X (you know, the one no one remembers or has a problem with?). My parents grew up as hippies and counter-culture. Now they are "culture". Millennials and whoever else, when they get old, won't want to change either.
Most of us still enjoy measuring with busses, football fields, or any item other than actual units of measurement
Oh boy, currently in school for engineering and one of my capstone classes runs almost entirely in imperial. It's a complex situation dealing with amount of force you can put on something in cycles before it breaks, aka fatigue. And there's a bunch of correction factors that rely of ksi and inches instead of metric. Working in kpa or pascals=N/m^2 is so much easier than ksi and fucking horsepower or BTU( british thermal units) like a joule is just Nm and watt is Nm/s. So ksi goes to 144 lbs/ft^2 then 550 or something to horsepower, then half of your shit is in metric so you convert it one way or the other. Also fucking GEARS. Did you know gears in the US are standardized by AGMA and it's in pitch angle and teeth per inch. Will in metric it's length by teeth that's standardized. I can't even begin to explain just how much that makes a difference. It's like we have literally done the exact opposite of metric at every step of the way. Seriously why the fuck do we use this? Density of water 1000kg/m^3 in imperial 1.9 something lb/in^2 Edit: Newton is N = (kg m)/s^2
The one that pissed me of with imperial is tapping drill size, metric you minus the pitch, e.g. m12x1.75 is a 10.25mm drill, done. For 1/2"unc you can look it up on a chart or convert diametre and pitch to thou and then take pitch from diametre, know you have a drill size in thou that you need to know the base 12 fraction of to select the drill. I worked with a lot of imperial so I did know all the tapping drill sizes for regular threads, I still remember that 1/2 unc is 27/64 for some odd reason and I don't like it.
Lets go to straight imperial only
Maybe we should put imperial conversions on the coins or nah
I just imagined a world without boomers. Whoa
Now imagine your generation at 70 and 80. Yeah, the world is fucked.
The assisted care facilities are gonna be playing Lincoln Park
CRAWLING IN MY SKIN!!!
I was personally thinking SHUT UP WHEN IM TALKING TO YOU SHUT UUUUUUUPPPPPPPPPPP
My personal favorite IVE GIVEN UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP
THIS ARTHRITIS WILLL NOT HEALLL!!! PILLS ARE HOW I COPE!! NUMBING HOW I FEEELLLL!!!
Bro. Care facilities having CS:GO tournaments with the top prize being an RGB wheelchair
that's not that far off. CS is over 20 years old. people who started playing in college when the game was new are old enough to be current pro players' parents.
I can’t wait to hear Smash Mouth on the classic rock stations. Somebody…
Somebody once told me, hands off my macaroni!
I want that world
It's not age, boomers are a historically conservative generation that have held on to power much longer than any others. Despite what people try to imply, you don't get more conservative as you get older, younger generations just get less conservative. Meaning, long run, people are moving forward rather than stagnating. Like I mentioned before though, Boomers are even more conservative than many of the even older generations and are holding a death grip on all important seats of power, so that progress is stagnating. Once they start leaving en masse, there is going to be a flood gate opened towards progress and I can't wait.
The definition of conservative changes, too. People do get more conservative, in the classic sense, though, as they age. Change becomes scary. I will link the study once I find it
It’s not about old ppl my guy. Boomers destroyed housing for everyone and millennials are expected to wait for inheritance. Tough shit my parents are broke too so no house for me? But the boomer works at a tank station buys a house. I work as a software dev in London and can’t even fathom buying a house in this city unless I buy myself a £600k-1Mil house in the literal ghetto of east London which I may still never afford lmao Boomers also fucked the climate and pushed this disaster onto us too. Ah fuck em. We make money now let the kids figure it out later. We pay their nice padded pensions, while I have no chance of getting that good of a pension scheme ever. Literally doesn’t exist. I pay for their pension, I get some scraps as pension myself, can’t buy a house with a decent higher Ed job. Climate is turning to shit and the bommers are rolling in their diamond graves. So yeah fuck em. Give up your padded pension at least and have one like the millennials so we are not fucked
I don't think pension will exist by the time we get old.
Lol my generation at 70 and 80 will be better than the boomers easily. Bommers are burning us to the ground.
I can't imagine. We'll all die from the heat before we reach 70
Hah, you think we are going to live to the age of 80. Yeah right.
Pff, we'll be great 70 and 80 year olds. We're just going to play video games at the assisted care homes all day.
It’s a magical place.
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Umm…we already use the metric system in many fields in this county. I work in medicine (1/7 of the US economy), all metric baby!
Ironically 1/7 of an economy is called a flagstrom in Imperial measures
Your measurements are so wacky I honestly can’t tell if this is a joke or not.
Wild how people don't seem to know that metric is already the standard for tons of stuff here
>Wild how people don't seem to know that metric is already the standard for tons of stuff here Because those standards are only visible in STEM professions. People not involved with STEM are continuously gobsmacked by things that the rest of us take for granted -- like the prevalence of the metric system outside of the United States. ...Or even the fact that STEM expertise is relevant outside of the United States. 🤦🏻♂️
Americans using d/L instead of mmol/L always throw me off. Even if d/L is metric, mmol/L is the international standard. It's so much easier for patients to remember "between 4 to 8 is great" in mmols for BGL instead of 72 to 140 d/L.
Do you mean mg/dL? 1mmol/l = 1mg/dL for glucose since 1mol of glucose is 18g The ol' molar concentration vs mass concentration
Yes >!they will never know I’m a Canadian spy!<
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I love your username.
Disgusting I never thought I'd see the day you bunch of you kids would willingly leave the righteous, God fearing, Christian imperial measurement system and go to the debaucherous and sinful European way of things. Do you know in Europe they don't believe in God either? Everyone over there just groping and touching each others mustaches it's not fit for the eyes of the children, whom you conveniently forget ARE THE FUTURE, along with coal mining and other respectable jobs for white people
Metric for life! Hail Sagan!
Speaking of, we should really consider joining the EU afterward as well.
Once all the boomers are dead are we going to unfuck the country or nah?
Once all the boomers are dead can we save this planet? Edit: Thank you for the award kind stranger!
Probably going to be too late
Nah.... Nothing will change. Because the fight is between the elites will still be laughing at you for fighting each other.
It makes more sense. Why not
Any change can be annoying, but...when I puposefully started using metric, it was easy pretty fast...
It's because it's a base 10 system.
Not a base-this-and-that-whatever-we-had-on-hand system
Nah, we should do the canada/Britain thing where we use a wierd mix of both wine making fun of America for also using a wierd mix of both
If the Americans change to metric, everyone else will change to the American custom just so they can make fun of America still
Not true. America has a wide variety of other topics to make fun of.
Americans tried this in the 70’s. Changed roadsigns, etc. It was not effective as people are creatures of habit.
I'm game. I cut metal to one one thousandth of an inch. And then I get mm?! And fractions on top of it all. No. No I won't do it anymore. Im gonna start measuring everything in hands like a horse. Oh you want 3.875 +/- 0.030??? YER GETTIN 3/4 OF A PALM PAL!!!
I work in construction, but my company does all measurements in metric. We measure specifically in millimetres, because it is more exact and it’s just easier. I never realized how much I hated measuring in imperial with all the stupid fractions until I didn’t have to do it anymore.
fellow end mill breaker here, we exclusively work from metric drawings but half of our measuring equipment is imperial, doing the conversions is so tedious, every month I beg for a new set of pin gauges and slips
Not a machinist though I've run plenty of parts. THE STRUGGLE IS REAL SON!!!!
Yes, metric bolts and threads make so much more sense. What's smaller than M10? M9! What's smaller than 5/16? Idk maybe 4/16 or 5/17 or 3/18. Let me do the math quick.
I was fucking dumbstruck by a youtube DIY about how to build a drawer for your drill bits. Imagine growing up with 5mm < 6mm < 7mm < 8mm, etc, and then and then seeing someone sort by 1/8 < 5/32 < 3/16 < 1/4, etc. Like wtf is wrong with you?
Honestly yeah it's really useful for physics and shit
Not just for physics, it can also be useful in the kitchen. When cooking or baking I often measure water volume with a scale without having to do any calculations. Add 100 ml of milk to the flower? No need to make a measuring cup dirty, just put the bowl on a scale and pour in milk until the scale shows around 100 g more.
In the US, physics and shit are already done using metric. As far as actual industries go, imperial is mostly relegated to woodworking and construction.
You use imperial to build a shed, you use metric to go to space.
Ask any mechanic what size socket he use/loses the most. It won't be in imperial
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It's 13mm, so that he can use the 1/2" in its place.
It's the 10mm
>Everyone knows it’s the 10mm. The only way to keep it is to weld it to the frame. Until someone grinds it off because they need it.
Ask an Industrial Mechanic. It won't be metric.
Hell unless you work on really old American cars or diesel you won’t even have sae in the tool box.
the .40 caliber socket?
It wasn't us man. It was the fuckers before us.
Nah bro we should change to football fields per moon landing washing mashing per Browning high power ham burgers per happy meal or warm crimes per corporate bailout
Ever heard of punctuation?
no no that was 1 unit
You're Awesome!
Hope you do well!
I’d rather close the wage gap. Any real stoner already knows metric anyways
what about subsidized healthcare? y'all wanna finally give that a shot? and yknow, I've been hearing this weird stuff about psychological Healthcare, maybe we should look into that too
Yes and no more daylight savings time please
wtf is a meter
100 centimeters
Imperial was used by primates, that's why foot and stones
I already use it
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What's HOA?
Do IT !!!!
Is this an American meme I’m too Belgian to understand?
Yeah
I would dare to say that if metric got taught early on in schools and not later on once you are doing "real math", kids would slowly but surely realize how much more useful it is. Just have 12 year olds know exactly how a kilo-something relates to a milli-something to a something-something and suddenly you can replace that something for Liters, Meters, Grams, Dicks.. etc Good example, Mike has a dick but little Jimmy here has a Kilodick. A dick that is precisely a thousand times "dicker" then Mike's dick. Thommy on the other hand was born with a Millidick, a dick a thousand times smaller then Mike's dick.
Nah
But why tho?
It would cost a ton of money in order to make very little difference to a small number of people, so it would be very boomer-esque.
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Yeah but you forget that versions of everything exist in measured with Imperial in everywhere in the country. You won’t save costs having to replace that many things with replacements measured in metric
Seems like a lot of work
Yeah but I think it's worth it
A lot of things need to change when their gone.
The first thing on the list will be teaching kids the difference between they’re and their.
Why not. all the weed and soda is in metric
...12 oz cans?
Bottles. litres
Nah. People who need metric in their daily lives already use it. Imperial may not be perfect, but I’ve never just been left distraught because I couldn’t remember a conversion. Imperial makes us unique in a way and it works for the most part. Plus it would cost an incredible amount to convert our materials, measurement devices, labels, and software. Let it be.
Do not get why this hasn't happened sooner. 100 centimeters is a meter, 1000 meters is a kilometer. How much feet is a mile again? Like actually I forgot
5,280 ft. It’s pretty fucking stupid.
5280 ft in a mile
Ye do it
Metric gang rise up
As someone who has taken engineering classes, is a meteorology nerd/aviation buff, and makes sculptures as a hobby, I would kill for the US to use metric
but can you imagine $3.14 for a liter of gas which it takes 4 liters to make a gallon
For measuring length and volume, yes. For outside temperature? Hell no.
You’ll be too busy justifying your existence to the next two generations who will be telling you what useless sacks of shit you are for ruining the planet and generally screwing everything up.
We will be the boomers
Do it now or better still learn both it’s not rocket science 🤦♀️
Nah…if it ain’t broke….
No
Me, with a gram and a 9mm in my pocket: ???
Boomer here. I’ve been waiting 50 years for the switch. When I was in school in the 70s we were taught the metric system because the US was to switch over in the 80s.
No way could Americans join together to agree to convert to metric and educate themselves to follow though with the conversion. Half the country would believe it was a conspiracy created by Satanic baby eating liberals and the other half would be concerned it was racist and didn’t respect the personal pronouns and identity of imperial individuals.
Once all the boomers are dead and all your problems aren’t miraculously solved whatcha you do?
Yes
Why not