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@Xeraser What’s funny is that all it would take is a year of you guys living over here to get it and be converted. Human-centric measurements are cool and useful, you’d get it if you had land, had to work it, and had to build a chicken coop once or twice

Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 07:44:39 JST

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@Xeraser YOU WILL COME BUILD THE COOP

YOU WILL USE FEET AND INCHES

AND WHEN YOU FINISH YOUR CHORES WE’LL GO SHOOT AT TARGETS 20 YARDS AWAY

AND YOU WILL BE HAPPY

Xeraser 🇮🇹 | 🇷🇺 (xeraser@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 07:44:40 JST

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@WashedOutGundamPilot Never.

Nate Higgers, Head of Trust and Safety :rh_1::rh_4::rh_8::rh_8: :sonnenrad: :antiverified: (nathanielhigger1488@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 11:20:54 JST

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@Elliptica @WashedOutGundamPilot @Xeraser That reminds me of this
youtube.com/shorts/JRuN7HsEECA

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@WashedOutGundamPilot @Xeraser Meters makes sense in a military application, Celsius makes sense in a scientific application
Feet and Fahrenheit make sense for everything else

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Anime Wong (elliptica@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 11:20:55 JST

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@NathanielHigger1488 @WashedOutGundamPilot @Xeraser It completely depends on a use case, and that's dependent on scale. For a scientist, easy conversion is key for many problems, so metric makes sense... until it doesn't. Then they make new units for their specific use case, but always tie it back to metric for ease of conversion.

The idea that everyone needs to switch to metric because 12 inches in a foot is too hard to remember is funny to me. Most people don't do unit conversion ever, so selecting a system with a wonky base ten scale over less evenly divided but useful scales for the sake of conversion is really stupid.

Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 11:22:51 JST

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@Elliptica @NathanielHigger1488 @Xeraser Imperial is just easy for working with your hands. Everything’s divisible by 2, and the measurements come to mind easy. You can build something small just by writing things out on the wood. You don’t need to sit there and figure out how you’re gonna work with halving 5.125 M. The math isn’t THAT much harder, but every little bit of ease adds up when you’re busy and tired

Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 11:27:17 JST

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@NathanielHigger1488 @Xeraser It’s just a regional taste thing. Our climates make the fahren a great metric for us, because 0 is bitter cold, and 100 is pretty hot - and we got a lot of territory that experiences both those extremes every year.

When you look at the lat/long for most of europe, it makes sense why they’re content to use celsius, they don’t have the same extremes we do, so the narrow window doesn’t bother them. Diff. places, diff. cultures suited for use. Like, they don’t have to care about working w/ metric in woodworking, because most euro countries don’t have much of a DIY industry. Over here, I see family and friends constantly building things (just saw someone making a table, another a bed frame), I never hear about germans going through the trouble to make their own TV stand or draft their own barn unless they’re very invested hobbyists.

The only thing I really find gay about metric is that they don’t have a catchy distance thing, I noticed even in lat america there were plenty of locals using miles, even though all the signs were in klicks. It’s just catchier that way.

Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 12:19:09 JST

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@NathanielHigger1488 @Xeraser It’s not about the accuracy of it, it’s just the pace. There’s something about the size of a mile being so big that makes it easier to use when conveying rough distances. I could never figure out why it took hold in places that had no reason to use imperial, it was always weird to see. But I never heard someone give me directions to a village or settlement using kilometers, it was always “eh, a couple miles that way” or even “about 20 miles”. Always surpised me to see that because it was accurate.

Miles are just big in some way that feels right, I guess.

Nate Higgers, Head of Trust and Safety :rh_1::rh_4::rh_8::rh_8: :sonnenrad: :antiverified: (nathanielhigger1488@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 12:19:10 JST

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@WashedOutGundamPilot @Xeraser I fucking hate how miles are though, it makes no fucking sense that a mile is 5280 feet (I literally had to google it cuz I don't have it memorized). It's 1760 yards too, so that's still an arbitrary number. I wanna know who the fuck thought these are good numbers

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