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nelson
· 4 years ago
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We can’t be flying through space measuring using feet n shit
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flyingoctopus
· 4 years ago
Well yes because you can't walk very well in space.
abhinnav
· 4 years ago
As if I can walk through the entire day without bumping into corners or stubbing my toes every now and then.
nelson
· 4 years ago
That’s exactly why it’s unnecessary
catfluff
· 4 years ago
Yes
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jokur_and_batmon
· 4 years ago
Screw the boomers I already switched
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famousone
· 4 years ago
Nah
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guest_
· 4 years ago
Don’t really care. How would it effect my daily life? Many consumer products are already sold in metric sizes- or metric AND standard. What does it matter to me if the store is 10 miles or 6klm away? Either way it’s still 15 minutes or whatever. Why do I care of my car needs gallons of gas or liters? It’s gas. I’m either going to fill the tank or put $40 in or whatever. I’m not going to measure the damn gas. With more and more products made overseas dimensions and fastener sizes are already most commonly metric. It’s not 1970- most of my tools are metric and I can easily get metric fasteners.
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guest_
· 4 years ago
Keep in mind that existing buildings constructed in standard or with standard firings would still need legacy support. If 1 meter lengths of a mounding or material are common in the metric world and so spaces tend to be laid out based on that- and 1 yard is common here- if that converts to metric you’re still going to have all these weird US specific sizes of things that are “10,127mm” and what not because 200+ years of construction and industry will have been built on a different standard that doesn’t fit cleanly into round metric numbers.
guest_
· 4 years ago
But regardless- we have somewhat slowly been converting to metric anyway. We still use lbs for common weights like people and objects- but the UK uses stone too. We still drive in MPH and miles but the UK drives on the wrong side of the road that only a few other countries do and requires special cars and other traffic devices be made just for their markets. So it’s not all that strange. More and more huge expensive machines that make things are made using metric units for precision and mass market simplification- as said earlier-
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guest_
· 4 years ago
Consumer goods are increasingly for international markets and come metric and standards or just metric measures- so we are gradually accepting the metric system. Like many things a slow roll out might be best. It avoids chaos and confusion and the massive costs of a quick change and doesn’t leave people feeling like they were forced into anything. By the time we have self driving cars- it will matter even less metric or standard. Even more so than today you’ll mainly just care about how LONG a trip takes- and with electric cars liters or gallons of fuel or oil won’t matter much at all.
cryoenthusiast
· 4 years ago
honestly i only want metric for food items and other bulk goods and they already come measured in metric just not filled into metric sized containers or weights. Except water bottles. individual ones always come around half a liter but in US the measurement you read is "16.9 oz (500mL)" and sodas as well the measurement you read is "2 Liter (67.97 oz)" so those are filled to "nice" numbers in metric but not in US standard.
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guest_
· 4 years ago
Yeah. Pretty much. Produce is still “lbs” most places- but liquids, consumable and otherwise- from detergent to motor oil is often metric/standard. The oil I use is sold in clean, even liters and is an odd number of quarts- but the opposite can be true too. My detergent is even numbers in standard but odd in metric. But because that conversion is weird it could bring challenges in some areas. A common speed limits here is 35mph- 56kph. 45=72, 55=89. So unless we changed the speeds people actually travel- which believe it or not would likely have some impact on things- US limits would become odd numbers instead of the units of 5 we are used to. It gets weird. Half miles are normal here but that’s .8km.
guest_
· 4 years ago
The math starts to get funky because we largely designed things to work in clean increments using standard and we can’t exactly change things like the distance between exits or the lengths of a standard block- not easily anyway. It’s all the little things people don’t think about with “easy” changes like these.
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abusername
· 4 years ago
Yes. Cooking in metric is so much better! Who the fuck thought of tea spoon and table spoon‽ I don't know about you but I can never remember witch is witch but in metric it's 5ml and 15ml so much better!
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zippytheroach
· 4 years ago
Word. Cooking isn't hard, the damn measuring system is.
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gluuurak
· 4 years ago
I get what you mean; ml and g can make cooking and baking more precise (although I like using both methods now that I live here). However, Europeans have teaspoons and tablespoons as measurements, too, and we typically don't use ml for teeny amounts. The confusing part is that European and American teaspoons and tablespoons are not actually the same size. Took me a while to figure that out.
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turn_down_for_now
· 4 years ago
Yep
jensensbooty
· 4 years ago
No
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iccarus
· 4 years ago
those that say they can't change to a world standard of measurement are the same ones that want people to change their lifestyles to improve living and environment standards.
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