What is better? Imperial or metric?
>1 meter = *checks notes* light traveling in a vacuum, how far it goes in *squints* one two hundred ninety-nine million seven hundred ninety-two thousand four hundred fifty-eighth of a "second"; to define that, refer to a manual about *pulls element out of ass* Cesium and for links to subsequent tertiary definitions and so on
>>16783427Do US scientists use imperial or metric?What about the US military?
>>16783429In imperial the speed of light is just 1 ft/ns
>>16783427>imperial(jewish empire)nuff said
whatever i feel like using at a given moment. i just alternate to keep things fresh.
>>16783427The best thing about the imperial system is that Giga Chad's miles, pounds and gallons are way bigger than yours, reflecting his superiority.
>>16783430Metric is best for extreme conversions that almost no one needs to do. For example, if US military scientists wanted to collaborate with the EU to genocide Gaza with death lasers from space, there would probably be fewer hiccups if everyone worked in metric.
>>16783492>metric system is for genociding GazaHoly based. I'm metricboi now.
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>>16783491this. i think they just use metric for road distance measurements to make themselves feel better about their tiny little countries.
>>16783427Metric-12 is best. Too bad it doesn't exist in any significant way.
>>16783492Metric has always been a death weapon.
>>16783427Evidently metric, as it's lazier. Moving decimal points around is objectively superior to pretending that 12 -> 3 -> 1760 makes sense in any possible reality.
>>16783430Metric for any sort of nontrivial calculationsA weird combination of the two for designing components. I just built something today with some cursed combination of metric and imperial screws and dimensioning
The metric system is unironically globohomo shite, invented by a bunch of proto-commie fr*nchmen
>>16783573this
>>16784151Notice how the modern prefixes (added from 1960 on) are systemically abusive to boys. The tiny dicklet ones all end in -o while the big powerful ones all end in -a.
>>16783427The reality is, Imperial system's actual OFFICIAL values are defined USING the metric system and the Metric System is now defined in terms of natural physical constants.So Imperial system values can be thought of as a weird base of the Metric System.Similar to the number 14 can be expressed in base 10 (Metric) as 14 but E in Base 16 (Imperial).
>>16784349ok gigolo
>>16784385I don't know what you mean but since you're defending the Metric system I'm gunna assume you're a European so I'm going to have to tell you to fuck off and eat shit
>>16784385That's silly, like saying green is a weird interval of nanometers. Green came first. Redefining a pint to arbitrary precision using SI doesn't supersede what a pint is or what it's used for.
>>16783427I am convince people who prefer metric just cannot do fractional arithmetic.
>>16783642You tried
>>16783573Nobody thinks of distances traveled in the same sense that they think of smaller lengths. How many feet are in a mile is trivial information if you know how long a mile is and how long a foot is. You just don't think about them the same way and it makes sense.
>>16784708>Nobody thinks of distances traveled in the same sense that they think of smaller lengthsThis is survivorship bias. Literally, everyone who had to quickly convert feet and miles around died in the trenches while doing so.
>>16784738>everyone who had to quickly convert feet and milesSo nobody?
Metric-fags, do we really have to go through all this again?You hate US Customary because you SUCK at math.You've tried to make your arithmetic illiteracy a virtue instead of a failing.America beat you to everything not because we have Imperial, but because unlike in your commie prison countries, we are FREE here to use whatever units we want.
>>16784738Based imperial killing zogbots
>>16784772This is true. Dual scale C/F thermometers were originally banned in the EU under the (valid) argument that Europeans are too illiterate to deal with a second set of marks, which would lead to millions of hypothermia deaths as they see the mercury at 20ยบ and go out for picnics without coats. Following the great migrant crisis, the sale or manufacture of C/F thermometers was upgraded to a hate crime due to the disproportional violence it targets at minorities.
>>16784772just because you can walk with gravel in your shoes doesn't mean you should
>>16785052Just because you can measure out 473176473 nanoliter drops of beer into a pint glass doesn't mean you should.
>>16785040Nothing you said is true, we only have mercury thermometers banned
>>16784444This is true, fractional imperial measurements filters the browns on the job site.
