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Decimalization is a plague wrought upon our society by bourgeois liberals, while traditional units of measurement were refined over thousands of years by the proletariat through practical use to be applicable to the real world.
Consider money. You have a mutual aid program with one thousand dollars that it needs to give to three equally-needy people. How the fuck are you going to give each of them $333.33 repeating money? Absolute bullshit.
The old money system was far more rational. Two-hundred forty pennies to a dollar was a pretty common way to break it up. That breakup allowed each dollar to be split evenly among 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 16, 20, 24, 30, 40, 48, 60, 80, 120, and 240 of your fellow workers. Compare that to the modern, decimalized dollar, which can only be split evenly between 2, 4, 5, 10, 20, 25, 50, and 100 of your fellow proletarians.
It's not just money that suffers from decimalization though, it's damn-near everything. What the fuck is 30 centimeters? Oh, it's about as long as a foot. Why not just use a foot? Do you know how long a foot is? It's about as long as A FUCKING FOOT! HOW MUCH IS 235 MILLILITERS? IT'S ABOUT AS LARGE AS A CUP! ISN'T OUR SYSTEM IS SO MUCH MORE LOGICAL THAN THE OLD SYSTEM OF A CUP BEING ABOUT AS LARGE AS A CUP!
You might be thinking "oh you're just a dumb provincial American, get used to the metric system and it isn't so bad." Motherfucker the beautiful thing about the old measurement system is that you never have to "get used" to fucking anything, because the measurements are based on practical shit. The only practical measurement in the whole fucking metric system is the liter, and that's because they made it almost indistinguishable from a quart.
BuT hOw MaNy QuArTs ArE iN a GaLlOn? Listen here you common core chucklefuck. Saying that it's easier to remember metric because it's all in tens or hundreds or whatever is just pasting a bandaid over the problem, which is that our education system has had all practical skills systematically rooted out of it. I remember taking Home Ec when I was in middle school and I damn well learned what all of the common measurements were by applying them to real life shit. This metric bullshit is designed to be easier to memorize when you read about it in a textbook.
Who would design this disaster? The French took a break from their rampant Islamophobia and Antisemitism to create this bullshit. But it wasn't the French people, who continued to use traditional units of measure until the new systems were forced upon them, it was the post-revolutionary Bourgeoisie, who had never cut wood or measured flour in their fucking lives, who said "hon hon, let us introduce a new measurement system, oi oi" and infected the world with this plague.
Metric is idealistic nonsense imposed by rich assholes that is increasingly being favored over the materialist, proletarian traditional measurements. The only reason it has any continuing cultural purchase at all is because PMC dipshits like to lord how much smarter they are over everyone. Look inside yourself and destroy any vestige of a hold the metric system has on you, just as through self reflection you should seek to destroy all other forms of liberalism.
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(this is like 50/50 a bit and my actual preference)(normally I like to argue with people over this but I've actually got stuff to do today so i won't be replying)
pretty much every single profession that needs to measure things (i.e. carpenters, construction, engineering, soldiers, etc.) uses metric. this customary measurement thing is a 4chan meme with no basis in reality and betrays a serious lack of participation in or knowledge of the daily realities of actual physical work or science. the USSR used metric. China uses metric. Cuba uses metric. The only countries which do not use metric are Liberia, Myanmar, and the USA. the 'foot' is not actually as long as most people's foot, it is defined the same arbitrary way as metric lengths, via standardization to a specified measure (often a specific amount and configuration of some material in some specific conditions) with an international institutions decree.
actually, a "foot" and other imperial measurements are now defined by metric measurements, so they don't have to haul around their stupid metal bars in specific temperatures to check
I don't know what country you're talking about, because all three of those definitely use customary in the US.
https://www.quora.com/Is-the-US-imperial-system-of-measurement-better-than-the-metric-system
https://www.quora.com/What-professionals-in-the-US-only-use-the-metric-system-in-their-work
(note: apologies for the source but my only other option was :reddit-logo: )
Floors are measured in square inches.
Building materials are in customary, screws and nails are in customary. Room dimensions are feet, living area is sq ft, roofs are “squares” which is just 100 sq ft. Doors, windows, stairs, all ft and inches. Piping is in inches. Just about every aspect of construction uses customary.
Some of the above apply to various engineering disciplines. Streets are measured in feet, land area is acres.
The US is dominated by customary. Scientific and medical are of course in metric, but I never said otherwise,
even if you are right about this specific point, metric is still far superior. its not like every other country beyond america, liberia, and myanmar have exclusively shit architecture because their poor capenters and construction workers can't use US customary units. it clearly works, at worst it is an arbitrary and equally useful system of units, and at best it is far superior for international communications, mass production, conversions, scaling, etc.
every other country in the world has figured this shit out lmao, this reactionary take against the metric system is pure 4chan anti-intellectualism and nothing more.
Fahrenheit is based on humans, Celsius is based on water.
0F is about as cold as the average person can handle (with warm clothes), 100F is about as hot as the average person can handle. 100 is of course also about our internal body temperature.
Fahrenheit also divides nicely into groups of 10s. "The temperature is going to be in the 80s today, so wear light clothes."
Meanwhile in Celsius, at 0 you have to put on a medium coat, at 100 you're literally boiling alive.
felt temperature is wildly variant on conditions and between different people. boiling point of water is consistent and predictable.