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Again people making me defend imperial, I think metric is better.
I see this argument all the time, converting between these units is hard cause the numbers are weird. You have to stop thinking about imperial as a system, it's not. No one should convert miles to feet, they are not intended to measure on the same scale.
None of the conversions are easy because imperial is just a random collection of units that were being used to measure different things.
Yeah, no one should be able to make a quick sanity check for things that span multiple powers.
"Hey Bob, we have 5000 of those 78 ft rails, that enough for the 100 mile railroad?"
"What do I look like, a fucking calculator?"
vs
"Hallo Heinz, how mäny hecto-liter do ve kneed für 1000 0.5l bottles of Bier?"
"20, boss."
The amount of people going completely out of their way to die on their little cubic ft hill actually defending they're incapable of easily and consistenly calculating units is just utterly ridiculous. "Nobody should be doing this!!!1!"
No, wait, the people in here telling people that "dozenal" is superior, but not realizing they're not using a "dozenal" system at all, they're just counting to twelve in decimal. Those are also making me question whether humans actually went to the moon...
Keep putting those words in my mouth. I'm not dieing on any hill, just trying to provide some context about why imperial is so weird. I still think metric is better.
You seem really upset about something that really doesn't matter that much, are you okay?
Did I mention you specifically when I said „the amount of people…“? See.
And if it doesn’t matter much to you, why do you keep commenting? Nobody’s „making“ you defend anything. Are you okay?
You were replying to me...
I'm just replying to people who respond. I had seen your argument about imperial measurements a lot and since that's really not an intended use case, if anything about imperial can really be called intended, I responded.
I'm doing fine thanks for asking. If my responses are agitating you I can stop. I hope you have a great life!
Yeah, I’m just replying to people who respond. Look, I’m not the one having issues here, you are the one who keeps responding to me. Just stay out of my inbox if I’m agitating you.
Glad you aren't having issues. No agitation here. Have a great weekend!
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