• rbhfd@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Do you think people in countries that use metric units have no intuitive way of linking the units to things we use every day?

    To me and anyone else who hasn’t grown up with imperial (or USGS or whatever), the units seem just as useless in daily life as metric does to you. Probably even more so, because there is no easy way to link between different units.

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      1 year ago

      You have to remember those connections. Guess what a foot is based on.

      I wasn’t saying each system couldn’t be used to do the others’s strong suit, just that each is better at an aspect. You can do big calculations in USGS, as well, but why would you?

      Also, I’m not advocating that countries where people use metric change their system, only that they spend their time on things besides trying to change a system perfectly well suited to most purposes of the people that use it simply because it’s not theirs. When Americans come in and try to change other cultures because “our way is better,” it’s a dick move, yeah? Well, it’s not better the other way.