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What do you think about the metric system?

>> No.10020541

>>10020521
Napoleon playing the long game.

>> No.10021392

>>10020541
>Napoleon
>long
ironic

>> No.10021405
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>>10020521
Retarded. Freedom units are better.

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>>10020521

>> No.10021428
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>>10021405
>United States
>logical

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>>10021428
Keep importing dem rapefugees. The Jews need to have their revenge.

>> No.10021511

>>10020521
>too hard to use
Bruh, you literally just learn a few convenient base units and that's it. Even in this simplicity, you can formulate anything in a wide variety of ways, it's the easiest shit. One is just a wild and oft-inconsistent collection of units, the other is a coherent system. It's like doing mathematics with Roman numerals vs. positional notation (Hindu-Arabic system), the latter is just a few easy rules that lend great power, it's algorithmic.

With that said, I'm partial to some customary units as my country retains many of its old units and boomers know both.

>> No.10021516

>>10021392
Napoleon was taller than average.
Shortness was British war propaganda.

>> No.10021527

>>10021405
Murricans use month-day-year, if only year-month-day was the standard!

>> No.10021537

Was pretty good but we got something that actually made sense in the 20th century

>> No.10021615

>>10021405
>Kilogallon
>Kilofoot
Never heard anyone use these
Having degrees C for daily temperature is way easier to understand too

>> No.10021627
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Metric units are just as arbitrarily decided as a base unit.
>we got this metal ball, let's build our weight systems around it.
>we found this pretty stick, let's make it the basis for our distances.
Metric just promotes stupidity by making the system too simple with multiples of 10. Literally lets any retarded eurotrash claim superiority because "muh metric system"

>> No.10021632

>>10021627

>Metric just promotes stupidity by making the system too simple with multiples of 10. Literally lets any retarded eurotrash claim superiority because "muh metric system"

Making things complicated for no reason is pretty fucking stupid anon

>> No.10021633

>>10021627
Yeah those eurotrash don't like it when we try and get ahead.
Imperialism is better.

>> No.10021635

>>10021615
>Having degrees C for daily temperature is way easier to understand too

lel, no.

>> No.10021733

Is good although I've seen a lot of arguments from people about how KPH > MPH but they're both equally useful within their own system, and equally poor compared to m/s. You literally cannot argue one in favour of the other.

>> No.10021739

>>10021627
>Literally lets any retarded eurotrash claim superiority because
they can convert shit across orders of magnitude and completely differnet units on the fly
that IS superiority you pathetic fag

>> No.10021743

>>10021733
>equally poor compared to m/s
you can do km/h to m/s in your head
good luck doing that with fucking miles and yards

>> No.10021759

>>10021743
m/s and mph is a factor of 2.2, arguably easier than the factor of 3.6 for m/s and kph.
Either way they're equally useless for actual science, in day to day usage it just depends on what you're used to

>> No.10021899

>>10021405
Burgers use Fahrenheit tho, an even more arbitrary scale.

>> No.10022446

>>10021516
also british feet and inches were actually shorter than french ones

>> No.10022478

>>10021733
>he doesn't measure speed in knots

>> No.10022892

>>10021405
kek good bait

>> No.10022900

>>10021527
Are you a fuck head? Obviously day-month-year is the fucking most logical thing. ascending order, the day (most specific part) heard first. Are you lot fucking retards. It really should be 11/9.

>> No.10022923

>>10022900
year-month-day is easier to deal with, it's easier to sort.

>> No.10022933

>>10021627
bait but I'll take it.

If I'm not mistaken, the g is the only unit that is still not lab reproductible, all the other are.

The real point of the metric system is that units are based on each other.
For example, a 10cm cube of water is exactly 1l and 1kg, which is convenient.
Also,
> simple is bad

>> No.10022935

>>10020521
America is inching towards the metric system.

Seriously: back in the 70s, we were all supposed to be switching over soon. Now it's the 10s, and that didn't happen. Will it ever?

>> No.10022942

>>10020521
I don't care much about it but europoors seem to get really wierdly attached to it. They really think that their choice aribtrary measurement system somehow makes them superior.

>> No.10022948

>>10021739
No one in America actually cares though. It's like a parlor trick that euros think is the hottest shit but it's like a 2/10 on the interesting scale.

>> No.10023097

>>10021412
Based and redpilled.

>> No.10023117

>>10022933
>exactly
*approximately

>> No.10023328

>>10021392
Well, he was himself tall a meter.
It would makes sense.

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>> No.10024881

>>10024558
>1mL = 1 cm^3

Literally the only true thing there. All the other statements are dependent on temperature.

>> No.10024897

>>10024881
It's called room temperature you absolute cuck.