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[–] 3 pts

Everything on the right is far easier for the average person to translate into opportunity cost at face value, making it far easier to make informed decisions.

Everything on the left is unnecessarily, sometimes even outright overly complicated - with the exception of month-date-year being a far superior system to adhere to the easily categorized alphanumeric rules for ordering indexed computer files.

[–] 2 pts (edited )

Don't even start!

you can take my Fahrenheit, Rankine, slug, ft-lb, lbm, lbf, from my cold dead hands!

but you can keep the stone, the fuck are the brits on about?

32°F is fucking freezing outside for a human
100°F is fucking frying outside for a human
what's there not to understand

[–] 2 pts

The side with more freedom.

[–] 2 pts

I feel like metric is the common core of measurements

I remember in grade school they taught us the metric system "because we were going to be switching soon". That was 30 years ago.

[–] 1 pt

Metric really excels when you get into volume and area.

[–] 1 pt

Inches/feet/miles are much more accurate

[+] [deleted] 0 pt