Why isn’t this a popular thing?

  • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    Because base 10 is vastly inferior to base 12? Go ahead, divide a kilometer into thirds without repeating decimals YOU CANT WHERES YOUR ANTOIN LAVOISER NOW

    Babylon was right.

    • discount_door_garlic@lemmy.world
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      4 days 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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        4 days 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.

      • reksas@sopuli.xyz
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        4 days ago

        To me, claiming imperial system is better than metric comes off just as blind arrogance. Its “american” system thus criticising it is like personally attacking them. At least I cant rationalise it in any other way.