That's not fair. We also use it to weigh drugs
this post was submitted on 01 Apr 2024
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I wish the US had made the switch to metric back in the 70's. I remember having to learn it in grade school, and there seemed to be a push for it, but never went anywhere. I now work as a chemist where everything is done in metric, but then go back to US measures once I punch out for the day. Would be nice to have a single system instead.
In fairness... Most of the "behind the scenes" are done in metric so we kind of did convert to metric. It's mostly just the public that is imperial still.
That's not true. We also use it in medicine. To measure, in mm, our progress to universal healthcare.
The values are all negatives aren’t they?
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as a non gun person, how much are we betting that we use metric sizing, and the load them based on imperial standards (for the ammo manufacturers that work in the US)
(It's just a way to brand....a 5.56 bullet is a .223 bullet but a 5.56 cartridge is much "hotter" then a .223, you can fire a .223 through a 5.56 rifle but I would strongly recommend not doing 5.56 in a .223)
if there is one thing i will never put time into learning, it's all the variants of them.
While that's true, another reason not to put 5.56 into .223 is that 5.56 has a slightly longer casing that might not have room to expand in a .223 rifle.
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The United States has been on the Metric system since the late 1800s like every other Western country.
In what useful sense?
Every food label, with very few exceptions, lists the contents in either grams or milliliters, in addition to ounces or fluid ounces. Every thermometer I've ever seen has both Fahrenheit and Celsius scales. We buy electricity in watts with metric currency. We measure the light output in lumens, and the common lightbulb sizes are measured in millimeters, but the wires that carry the electricity are measured by AWG. The parts on my bicycle and car all use metric measurements, except for tires. Tires are an unholy abomination with section width given in millimeters, the cross-section in a unitless ratio, and the rim diameter given in inches.
Meh, what're you gonna do? We switched to, or adopted, SI and metric where it made sense, but we have a lot of legacy systems.
It's all metric behind the scenes. When you pump your gas it shows gallons, but it's doing the math in litres. We turned our backs on the ⅓ lb burger, we've trained corporations to treat us like idiots.
Yeah engineers use metric then we convert because you (general) don’t understand metric and don’t want to learn
I'm an engineer but I work in imperial. Most machines run inches so I design in inches.
Fair enough I actually use mixed because my maintenance department doesn’t like metric but we have foreign bosses and suppliers
A thousand grams to a pineapple, and 20 football pitches to a kilometre. Simples!
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