Why isn’t this a popular thing?

  • discount_door_garlic@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Americans saying the metric system is dumb while reasoning that its bad because they can’t do decimals and fractions properly will never not be funny.

    omg 1/3km is 333.33 metres! it doesnt make any sense!”

    1 foot = 0.33 yards? "totally logical, so easy!"

    5280 feet in a mile? “wow so simple

    10mm in a cm, 100cm in a m, 1000m in a km? “its impossible to grasp!

    you guys think you’re so ahead of the rest of the world, while crashing probes into Mars and not knowing a 1/3 pounder is bigger than a 1/4 pounder, but everyone else easily converting volume to weight to temperature to distance at every order of magnitude are just laughing at you.

    • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works
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      1 month ago

      I’m not defending the imperial system. The imperial system is based on nothing, that’s worse than being based on 10. Base 10 is stupid, base 12 is better. We only use base 10 because we have 10 fingers, because apparently people are all children and need to count on their fingers.