Lmao. > If people want to interact with us they can use our measurements just like they use our language. Literally neither of these things happen. Ever done work on a car? Hell, half the American cars use metric. It’s not about “one world,” it’s about practicality. When it took two months to communicate with another country and everything you purchase was made domestically, it didn’t matter that different countries had different measurement systems. Now everything is virtually instant and only getting faster, of course it makes more sense to do everything the same way. And this part of your comment only further proves my point that you’re only defending the imperial system because it’s what you already know. “They can use our measurements, even though they’re inferior.” Grow the fuck up. > Except the benefit of machinery was being able to accomplish orders of magnitude more work in the same amount of time at less cost. How short-minded. Imagine how much farther along we’d be today if the trillions of calculations that happened in the last two hundred years had all been made slightly faster. Imagine how much farther along we’ll be in two hundred more years if we started today. I get it, you’re uncomfortable learning new things and admitting that what you’ve thought all along has been inferior to what other people were doing. You should stop that.