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Take 5 minutes to read this comparison before voting. https://www.metric4us.com/why.html (archive: https://archive.md/vVCI3)

Take 5 minutes to read this comparison before voting.

https://www.metric4us.com/why.html

(archive: https://archive.md/vVCI3)

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[–] [deleted] 7 pts

Yeah nothing is more simple than constantly doing conversion for EVERYTHING.

[–] [deleted] 5 pts

In real life you have to convert everything.

our understanding of the universe is based on converting reality into simpler concepts.

[–] [deleted] 5 pts

Imperial adds unnecessary conversions. Multiplying and dividing should be simple, but every such calculation with imperial requires mixed fractions --> conversion.

Also, you switched meanings of "conversion" in your second sentence. If you can't make a point, just say so; don't play word games.

[–] [deleted] 4 pts

my point is that conversion is necessary no matter what; it's universal. Hence the metaphor.

what you call "unnecessary conversions" is only true in limited circumstance. Those "unnecessary conversions" can be a livesaver depending on what you're working with. Also, much of the metric scale is linear despite almost nothing in nature scaling linearly. Some of phelps's comments give good examples.

[–] 2 pts

This is what confuses many. Physics doesn't describe the universe. It describes our conceptualized model of the universe. It is rather more abstract than most are led to believe.

[–] 0 pt

Physics doesn't describe the universe.

You don't know that. Knowing that requires knowing the Universe and seeing that our physics does not describe it accurately.

[–] 0 pt

We're not niggers who keep doing the same stupid thing when there is an easier way. This is the essence of being White. Stop being a nigger and use metric.

[–] 0 pt

Once you have them memorized it's no big deal.

them

LOL. Who memorized a seventh of a mile, in inches?

[–] 0 pt

You don't memorize it that way. You just know that there are 5280 feet in a mile and 12 inches to a foot. Boom! 1/7 x 5280 x 12.