/the US is certainly mired in a dual system. I have hundreds of end wrenches in my workshop, some are SAE, some are Metric, and even some are Whitworth. Yet I still occasionally find some fasteners that cannot be fitted properly. It happened just yesterday. I have a friend who nearly caused a fatal accident. He was in charge of an automobile test that spun out of control, ran across a grassy area, and spun into a parking area. Fortunately, no one was hurt. He had told the tester to "drive it at 100", meaning kilometers per hour, and the tester drove it "at 100"...miles per hour. As for language, English has already become the business language of most of the world. You can see traffic signs in English, even throughout China. How many Chinese signs do you see in the US? And, by the way, it takes just as much time to boil a frog regardless of what kind of thermometer you use...And a meter wasn't arbitrary. It was intended to be 1/10,000,000 of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator.
You are pro-metric, obviously - and that is OK.
I am not pro-metric, obviously - and that is OK too, right?
Using pejoratives, like “mired” and “clinging”, are signs of a weak argument. So is using little anecdotes about the use of non-metric units causing near fatalities.
There are over 7000 languages spoken in the world, and if you find nonconforming units of measure dangerous, I’m sure you could rationalize that hundreds of millions of deaths throughout history were attributable to the lack of a common language.
Units of measure are simply linguistic elements, and languages differ through the world. People are (mostly) free to speak the language they are familiar with, and far from life-threatening, I think that freedom is what keeps us safe.
Frankly, it is your push for conformity that is dangerous.
What other aspects of our culture do you think we need to give up in the name of conformity?
“And, by the way, it takes just as much time to boil a frog regardless of what kind of thermometer you use.”
That was a joke, dummy.
And a meter wasn’t arbitrary. It was intended to be 1/10,000,000 of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator.
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Nice even base-10 number, but I think that “from the North Pole to the Equator” is arbitrary.
Soon we will learn it is based on some kind of white supremacy.