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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 17 Apr \ parent \ on: Why do Americans put so much store in their measurement system? ideasfromtheedge
You can see how they didn't do the "rational" thing here, though. It should have been the conversion you mistakenly wrote, but they knew that was too unintuitive, so they fudged it.
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45 sats \ 1 reply \ @td OP 17 Apr
This is really what I'm really trying to angle at; "they". Why is it so triggering, tribal, and woven into identity (or at least it appears that way to me)?
Also, could you pass me a 2mm allen key, please? Sorry, I mean a 5/64 one.
Maybe it's because I'm not brought up on it but arguably metric measurements more human-centric when you get down small.
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99 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 17 Apr
I’m not using “they” in a tribalistic way. I’m just referring to the people who designed the metric system.
As the scale gets really large and really small, I think metric is a lot easier to use.
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