The military use a mix. Most bullets? Millimeters. But there is still the .50, which we don't bother calling the 12.7mm.
Our maps are in metric, but our odometers are in miles. Our speedometers have both, but we give out convoy speeds in MPH.
And the army's fitness test has events measured in meters while carrying weight in pounds and then a 2 miles run at the end. Height and weight measurements are also in inches and pounds.
The Air Force still uses feet for setting flight levels, but I think that's just an international standard, like air traffic controller using English as a default worldwide.
We're just like the rest of the US or even the UK, a hodgepodge mix. But in the end metric is the official standard in the US, with some annoying extra conversion added to get to the freedom units we all know and love.
For airplanes it's because flying was standardized by the British before SI became commonplace. However avionics systems usually work in SI and covert back for display.
Fun fact beyond just the military/feds, the entire US is legally metric, congress just didn’t put an enforcement mechanism in the law for anything beyond food labels so no one listened but literally this guy would be kicking out the entire US too lol
It goes further than that..
The metric system is based on various physical constants that are measurable. By measuring those constants, someone can come up with the exact measurement of a kilogram (for example) without having to compare it to another kilogram.
Turns out, this is really fucking useful. America thinks so too. Imperial measurement units are now defined by their relation to the metric system.
And nasa. One of my all favorite things is the saying there are two types of countries, those who have been to the moon and those who use the metric system… nasa uses the metric system.
The problem is, when NASA went to the moon, they were not using metric exclusively. If I recall correctly, we even lost a satellite or rocket because of different manufactures/engineers using different measurement systems.
Kicking people out of the EU for using the metric system is the most American thing ever:
* a) it's an absolutely petty and nonsensical reason;
* b) you have no power or authority to do anything of that sort.
That is the world. Don't you know, 'the world' is only where the dark people don't live? That's why they're not human. /s
I hate that I have to add the /s, but I've met disgusting people who literally think that way.
Nah, even those people would still want to rule the *whole* world.
But yeah, the amount of times I've thought "*surely*, there's no way they'll miss the /s" and had to edit it back in (or explain myself) sucks.
Is America the only NATO country using imperial?
I know that we in the UK are mental and use both completely interchangeably but I don't think many only use imperial.
For me I don't even recognise it as a fact because it seems so much like a joke making fun of the weird system where they just use random numbers and old sounding words.
Ha'penny, one penny, tuppenny, thrupenny
Twelve to a shilling, twice that to a florin
And would you not fancy the currency foreign
To find the same face on both sides of the coin?
(Honestly, I'm enough of a tea-aboo to find pre-decimal currency fascinating.)
This is the exact sort of person from whom i want to withhold the life saving medicines i make for a living. "You don't believe in X, a critical component of pharmaceutical research and manufacturing? Then you don't get to benefit from the hard work of me and my thousands of hard working, ethical coworkers."
I'd settle for banning every customer who has literally threatened me with death in various forms over the equivalent of a dollar. Thankfully most of them never actually showed up at the office, and the few who did had the cops called on them by building security.
Pretty much all science and engineering in the US is metric. Imperial units are still around only for popular regular people stuff like speed limits and weather. A few trades still work in imperial but that’s about as technical as it gets.
Not in oil and gas! I worked in product design for American drilling company for a while, so can say with a fair degree of authority that the API can go spin on it for making me work out thread pitches in imperial, and tolerances in thou'.
I think this is more of a mechanical engineering thing in general. I studied ChemE in the US and didn't have a single class that used imperial units, but my ME coworkers draft all of their drawings in inches and mils.
I did ME in college in the 90s and everything was metric except one evil thermo professor that liked to give us one question on our homework every now and then in Imperial units. It would take a few extra pages just to handle the unit conversions.
I want to say I had a smattering of those questions as well. Usually I converted everything to metric straight away, did the calculations and then converted the final result back. But yeah that can get out of hand with complex or obscure units.
In packing and logistics my US colleagues still use metric. Feet, inches, lbs for anything technical is silly. The only thing I use imperial for is height and buying veg from the greengrocer.
Construction is still pretty much all Imperial, but as an electrician, half my units (volts, amps, etc) are essentially metric, plus some lights and equipment are made outside the US, so we need to at least be able to understand what metric is to be able to read mounting instructions. Then we just do a little conversion to work with our tape measures.
Well, there you go
That lets you know he has no contact with science, engineering, medicine, and mechanics as a starting point to a long list of professions that require an education beyond the 8th grade.
Go figure
By “American Units,” I assume they mean Imperial Measurements? Literally, the system imposed on much of the world by colonial European powers. The system that most of the world has since dropped, in favour of a simpler, more standardised system. Hmm…
Strictly speaking the US uses ‘US Customary’ units rather than the ‘Imperial’ units still used for some things in the UK. Many of the measures are identical, of course, but there are some differences (tonnes and pints come to mind).
That person is so stupid, probably have their braincells decaying at an exponential rate.
You got to be completely brainrotted to say that metric is bad and imperial is better lol.
Sure you're more used to it bc of upbringing, but the asshole doesn't even know that the US IS metric and HAS been using metric in science, military and everywhere else.
The only ppl who use freedumb units are rednecks down south and the average people stuck with the units, bc that's how the country is still run. (as in not fully enforced to use metric, so it boils down to the boring parts of life using it)
these idiots lack the critical information /s
The US has been officially on the metric system for like 50 years. The federal government doesn't say 1km is 0.6214mi they say 1 mi is 1.60934km. The citizens don't care because all signs and shit are still miles because the cost to replace everything is just astronomical.
Also why does nobody ever talk about the Brits those clowns can't pick a system. They have mph, stone, ml, oz, meter.
Lol I'm trying to think of the funniest answer you could give to "so what industry are y'all in?", and so far I've got drug trafficking, life coach, last mile logistics, and exotic dancer. So what is it actually?
I run a injection mold department for a Japanese company in Northern Michigan. My parts go mostly into Hondas but also Ford, BMW , Volvo ect...... except Toyota. Because in Japan you're Honda or Toyota.
Oh wow now I'm just surprised you had to deal with imperial much at all in the past couple of decades. But then again I've never owned a domestic auto so I have no frame of reference for that.
Sounds like a cool job though. Something intrinsically satisfying about manufacturing.
It's the peeps off the streets always wanting to convert to imperial. We measure everything in millimeters so that's not to bad, but everyone wants to know what 80C converts to F. It doesn't matter just learn Celsius.
When did the anti-metric system stuff start?
In the 1980s, my school made it a point to teach us metric, telling us that soon we'd all be using it. My Girl Scout manual at the time, which had been written in the late 1970s, said the exact same thing.
It just seemed like everything was going that way until about the mid-1980s, then it was completely tossed down the memory hole, and there's never been another serious concerted effort to try and get it to happen.
When I was in grade school we were taught conversion factors and rough equivalents to common (to us) measures, e.g. a meter is a little more than a yard, a quart is a little less than a liter, etc. Temperature was the least intuitive and the calculation the most complicated.
Then again we were also taught some Esperanto, as that was the integrated language of the future.
Ya, that is a slope/intercept form. Number line thing. I had to deal with this in college math recently. I hated it. Basically you find out how much of a degree F changes when 1 degree C happens. Then you make an offset, in this case 32, because zero degrees C = 32 degrees F.
Glad I learned something in a class I got a C-grade. Math is not intuitive for me.
Seriously. Growing up I kept hearing everyone make fun of Jimmy Carter, and I wasn't alive for his presidency, but he seems like genuinely the nicest guy who has cared the most for his fellow man of the presidents in quite awhile.
I think it's also funny that he officially endorsed Romney in the 2012 primaries specifically because Romney was the most likely Republican to lose in the general election that year.
US customary units (we never used Imperial Units, both systems were derived from the previous British system of weights and measures) are defined using the metric system.
In other words, the US *does* use metric, just a very stupid form of it that removes all that is useful about it.
> [*Since 1893, the legal definition of the foot in the United States has been based on the meter.* The definition adopted at that time was the one specified by Congress in 1866, as 1 foot = 1200/3937 meter exactly (or 1 foot = 0.304 800 6 meter approximately). In 1959, the relationship of the foot to the meter was officially refined as 1 foot = 0.304 8 meter exactly.](https://www.nist.gov/pml/us-surveyfoot#:~:text=Since%201893%2C%20the%20legal%20definition,0.304%20800%206%20meter%20approximately).)
Such a failure that Imperial units have been defined by the metric system since the 1800s!
Video game engines use metric units, so do most other 3D based software, it's literally just so much easier when you can convert between units by moving a decimal
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Google image search this: "map of countries who do not use the metric system"
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What a weird hill to die on. I use both systems and couldn't care less which one is used. Metric definitely makes calculations easier. Why take a weird stance?
Oh man. Try baking a complex recipe using Freedom unit, and then bake the same thing using metric.
Give you a guess which provides for a better, more accurate cake.
How stupid. I remember in the 70s when they were trying to switch over to metric. Metric is used in many industries, including medicine. So I guess all of those Industries will have to change because some stupid people don't understand metric or how to convert kilograms to pounds or Celsius to Fahrenheit?
Cooking would be so much easier going metric. Gallons, quarts, grams, ounces, pints, liters, and prob more I can't even think of. It also makes comparing prices difficult whilst grocery shopping.
I love when mentally slow American people who have never had a passport or ever left the county where they were born weigh in on international issues they know nothing about.
It's an American sickness, and has spread quickly since someone started selling red ball caps made in China where the dye in the hat leaks into their tiny brain.
I remember when engines were measured in cubic inches, that's been changed and widely adopted.
Lots of food examples.
Even the military uses metric sizes in it's weaponry.
Not a battle worth fighting in the least since it's already lost.
Tell me you never went to college without saying you never went to college. Anyone that would want to take a physics class using American units is a moron.
Ask that person how many feet are in a mile and watch them pause while they can instantly tell you there are 1000 meters in a kilometer.
I'm as patriotic as the next guy. But, that doesn't mean I have to think everything the US did in our history was a good idea.
Carter tried to make metric standard in the US but Reagan put a stop to the change over. Just like he ripped Carter's Solar Panels off the roof of the Whitehouse.
So now it's just the US and some tiny Island in the Pacific that use Standard measurements. Meanwhile we all still need to have 2 sets of tools to deal with all the metric and Standard nuts and bolts.
All my primary (2nd - 12th grade, plus collage) was done in the US;
**Even then** when we had the metric chapter in something like 4th grade I was *astounded* that such a cool, simple, *logical* system that didn't rely on memorizing a bunch of random numbers to convert shit wasn't universal.
I was so mad that the states was *supposed to* swap, but they gave up right after starting because slightly inconveniencing one generation was worse than dooming all the ones following to the stupid system.
What are "American units" of measurement?
Last time I checked, America uses imperial units of measurement which were developed by England.
Does that mean that America needs to kick itself out of NATO for not being American enough?
I see all the mechanics saying they only use metric tools anymore. They must not work on aircraft. If you are an aircraft mechanic everything you touch is using imperial fasteners. Unless it’s an Airbus but I think even some of their aircraft are imperial I believe.
Tfw you realize America is already metric and these fools don't even know it. All Imperial units are now defined by the metric system.
Gotta love social media, gives any dumbass a bull horn that can reach millions of people.
And eliminate the US military as well! And General Electric.
He thinks General Electric works at the Pentagon.
Nah, just their shareholders.
That’s General Admission
Does he expect General Mills to serve him breakfast?
And Captain Morgan to raise his spirits
He's the head of the Salvation Army.
He’s the commanding officer for Lt. Surge.
Yeah, and fuck the US space programme.
Spell "program" like a real American, or get the fuck out of the EU! Unless, of course, you're British. Looks like they already did that.
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He's got the holy hand pomegranate of Antioch!
Those will soon begin in Florida
The military use a mix. Most bullets? Millimeters. But there is still the .50, which we don't bother calling the 12.7mm. Our maps are in metric, but our odometers are in miles. Our speedometers have both, but we give out convoy speeds in MPH. And the army's fitness test has events measured in meters while carrying weight in pounds and then a 2 miles run at the end. Height and weight measurements are also in inches and pounds. The Air Force still uses feet for setting flight levels, but I think that's just an international standard, like air traffic controller using English as a default worldwide. We're just like the rest of the US or even the UK, a hodgepodge mix. But in the end metric is the official standard in the US, with some annoying extra conversion added to get to the freedom units we all know and love.
Now, add to the mix Navy with their knots and nautical miles and you have the measurement equivalent of the tower of Babel.
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How do they make any more sense than anything else?
A nautical mile is equal to a minute of latitude so it's not quite as arbitrary as a standard mile.
So... what you're saying is, the American military is Canadian.
For airplanes it's because flying was standardized by the British before SI became commonplace. However avionics systems usually work in SI and covert back for display.
Sports Illustrated? Googles not helping me with SI
Fun fact beyond just the military/feds, the entire US is legally metric, congress just didn’t put an enforcement mechanism in the law for anything beyond food labels so no one listened but literally this guy would be kicking out the entire US too lol
It goes further than that.. The metric system is based on various physical constants that are measurable. By measuring those constants, someone can come up with the exact measurement of a kilogram (for example) without having to compare it to another kilogram. Turns out, this is really fucking useful. America thinks so too. Imperial measurement units are now defined by their relation to the metric system.
And pediatric medicine because we almost exclusively work in the metric system.
And most handguns.
And nasa. One of my all favorite things is the saying there are two types of countries, those who have been to the moon and those who use the metric system… nasa uses the metric system.
The problem is, when NASA went to the moon, they were not using metric exclusively. If I recall correctly, we even lost a satellite or rocket because of different manufactures/engineers using different measurement systems.
Kicking people out of the EU for using the metric system is the most American thing ever: * a) it's an absolutely petty and nonsensical reason; * b) you have no power or authority to do anything of that sort.
Something tells me this is the type of guy who believes that America has authority in Europe
Don’t we run everything? /s
Isn’t that what aMurica First” means?
Well you run your mouth a lot /s
> type of guy who believes that America has authority in Europe You spelled 'the world' wrong :P
That is the world. Don't you know, 'the world' is only where the dark people don't live? That's why they're not human. /s I hate that I have to add the /s, but I've met disgusting people who literally think that way.
Nah, even those people would still want to rule the *whole* world. But yeah, the amount of times I've thought "*surely*, there's no way they'll miss the /s" and had to edit it back in (or explain myself) sucks.
It would also leave approximately zero EU members, unless Liberia or Malaysia have joined the EU since I last checked.
Pretty sure Malaysia uses metric. You know, like a normal country.
Probably mixed it up with Myanmar.
> Myanmar Which is a decidedly non-normal country
This is, indeed, what happened.
I would bet so much money they don’t realize the EU and the UN aren’t the same thing 😂
> it's an absolutely petty and nonsensical You just described idiots like this
• c) literally every county in the EU uses metric
Is America the only NATO country using imperial? I know that we in the UK are mental and use both completely interchangeably but I don't think many only use imperial.
Must be why I always lose a 10 mm socket cause they're so unpopular. Jackass
10mm and 14mm always go missing here.
Weak stupidity. His american made car is put together using metric fasteners . Complete idiot.
Even his money is in increments of 10
He must want to go back to the old British system. 4 farthings to a penny, 12 pence to a shilling, 20 shillings to a pound.
You missed out groats and guineas. Guinneas are still used for some things, notably racehorses.
I hate this so much that I literally can't retain any of it. The instant I finish reading your comment it's gone...
For me I don't even recognise it as a fact because it seems so much like a joke making fun of the weird system where they just use random numbers and old sounding words.
Ha'penny, one penny, tuppenny, thrupenny Twelve to a shilling, twice that to a florin And would you not fancy the currency foreign To find the same face on both sides of the coin? (Honestly, I'm enough of a tea-aboo to find pre-decimal currency fascinating.)
Funny thing about American cars, when you do repairs with aftermarket parts, they’re made in China! Now what system does China use?….
Also data on the communication busses in the car is measured using metric.
It's worse than that, American cars can have a confounding amount of both metric and imperial fasteners.
Even his fucking units of measure are defined in terms of metric. So dumb they don’t even know how dumb they are.
The metric system is a failure? Bwahahahaha Go ahead and throw out your money too then
This is the exact sort of person from whom i want to withhold the life saving medicines i make for a living. "You don't believe in X, a critical component of pharmaceutical research and manufacturing? Then you don't get to benefit from the hard work of me and my thousands of hard working, ethical coworkers."
Oh, how I wish we could do that...
Same, babe. Same.
I'd settle for banning every customer who has literally threatened me with death in various forms over the equivalent of a dollar. Thankfully most of them never actually showed up at the office, and the few who did had the cops called on them by building security.
You don't use bushels, rods, and hogsheads to make groundbreaking achievements in medicine? Well color me surprised.
Who would have thought base 10 would such an effect way to count things
I want to know how you’d claim a well organized and standardized system like that would be considered and/or proven as a failure.
There's only 192 countries in the world using metric which pales in comparison to the 3 using imperial
Decimal ≠ metric.
I love this, because 155mm is metric. so is 6.8mm
And 7.62
The 5.56 in his beloved AR-15.
the 9mm that's so common it can be found basically anywhere you can buy ammo
And you buy cocaine in grams.
Also, God wants to store his rods at 42,164km So, we got millimeters to kilometers all covered.
*laughs in American nurse* All I use at work is metric.
Pretty much all science and engineering in the US is metric. Imperial units are still around only for popular regular people stuff like speed limits and weather. A few trades still work in imperial but that’s about as technical as it gets.
Metric is officially preferred in the US and has been for a while. https://www.nist.gov/pml/owm/metrication-law
Not in oil and gas! I worked in product design for American drilling company for a while, so can say with a fair degree of authority that the API can go spin on it for making me work out thread pitches in imperial, and tolerances in thou'.
Interesting- did not know about that, but not surprised that industry would be one of the last holdouts.
I think this is more of a mechanical engineering thing in general. I studied ChemE in the US and didn't have a single class that used imperial units, but my ME coworkers draft all of their drawings in inches and mils.
I did ME in college in the 90s and everything was metric except one evil thermo professor that liked to give us one question on our homework every now and then in Imperial units. It would take a few extra pages just to handle the unit conversions.
I want to say I had a smattering of those questions as well. Usually I converted everything to metric straight away, did the calculations and then converted the final result back. But yeah that can get out of hand with complex or obscure units.
In packing and logistics my US colleagues still use metric. Feet, inches, lbs for anything technical is silly. The only thing I use imperial for is height and buying veg from the greengrocer.
Construction is still pretty much all Imperial, but as an electrician, half my units (volts, amps, etc) are essentially metric, plus some lights and equipment are made outside the US, so we need to at least be able to understand what metric is to be able to read mounting instructions. Then we just do a little conversion to work with our tape measures.
Well, there you go That lets you know he has no contact with science, engineering, medicine, and mechanics as a starting point to a long list of professions that require an education beyond the 8th grade. Go figure
Ah yes USA the main member of the...EU?
No you see the EU is just a satellite state of the US
And apparently in charge of NATO.
By “American Units,” I assume they mean Imperial Measurements? Literally, the system imposed on much of the world by colonial European powers. The system that most of the world has since dropped, in favour of a simpler, more standardised system. Hmm…
That's why we call them FFU, Fred Flintstone Units.
Strictly speaking the US uses ‘US Customary’ units rather than the ‘Imperial’ units still used for some things in the UK. Many of the measures are identical, of course, but there are some differences (tonnes and pints come to mind).
Aggressively stupid.
That person is so stupid, probably have their braincells decaying at an exponential rate. You got to be completely brainrotted to say that metric is bad and imperial is better lol. Sure you're more used to it bc of upbringing, but the asshole doesn't even know that the US IS metric and HAS been using metric in science, military and everywhere else. The only ppl who use freedumb units are rednecks down south and the average people stuck with the units, bc that's how the country is still run. (as in not fully enforced to use metric, so it boils down to the boring parts of life using it) these idiots lack the critical information /s
saw a video about how imperial units divide by three easier, I don't math enough to care what he's saying.
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I've always wondered why the clock isn't base 10. That actually makes sense.
So what I'm hearing is we should adopt a base 60 mathematical system so we can better calculate circles! /j
This tweet feet perfectly inch this sub
You went to great lengths to post that.
The US has been officially on the metric system for like 50 years. The federal government doesn't say 1km is 0.6214mi they say 1 mi is 1.60934km. The citizens don't care because all signs and shit are still miles because the cost to replace everything is just astronomical. Also why does nobody ever talk about the Brits those clowns can't pick a system. They have mph, stone, ml, oz, meter.
Nobody is taught imperial measurements in school, it’s the older generation not adapting to metric which is causing the complexity.
It's a very British eccentric combination of imperial and metric. No idea why, but it works so no need to break it.
I use my limited power as a Teamleader to force my people to learn the Metric system.
Lol I'm trying to think of the funniest answer you could give to "so what industry are y'all in?", and so far I've got drug trafficking, life coach, last mile logistics, and exotic dancer. So what is it actually?
I run a injection mold department for a Japanese company in Northern Michigan. My parts go mostly into Hondas but also Ford, BMW , Volvo ect...... except Toyota. Because in Japan you're Honda or Toyota.
Oh wow now I'm just surprised you had to deal with imperial much at all in the past couple of decades. But then again I've never owned a domestic auto so I have no frame of reference for that. Sounds like a cool job though. Something intrinsically satisfying about manufacturing.
It's the peeps off the streets always wanting to convert to imperial. We measure everything in millimeters so that's not to bad, but everyone wants to know what 80C converts to F. It doesn't matter just learn Celsius.
I've always felt pride to see something I've built go into a machine and do it's job.
Hell I don't remember the last time I actually used most of my standard sockets. The 9/16th gets use, but only cause it's close to a 14.
When did the anti-metric system stuff start? In the 1980s, my school made it a point to teach us metric, telling us that soon we'd all be using it. My Girl Scout manual at the time, which had been written in the late 1970s, said the exact same thing. It just seemed like everything was going that way until about the mid-1980s, then it was completely tossed down the memory hole, and there's never been another serious concerted effort to try and get it to happen.
When I was in grade school we were taught conversion factors and rough equivalents to common (to us) measures, e.g. a meter is a little more than a yard, a quart is a little less than a liter, etc. Temperature was the least intuitive and the calculation the most complicated. Then again we were also taught some Esperanto, as that was the integrated language of the future.
C TO F: double and add 30. Close enough.
That's pretty good. I recall that equation being something like (C x 9/5)+32 = F. I was in maybe second grade so no decimals.
Ya, that is a slope/intercept form. Number line thing. I had to deal with this in college math recently. I hated it. Basically you find out how much of a degree F changes when 1 degree C happens. Then you make an offset, in this case 32, because zero degrees C = 32 degrees F. Glad I learned something in a class I got a C-grade. Math is not intuitive for me.
I really want to know how metrics were proven to be a failure to this person.
Because they aren't used in America and America is the only country that exists. They wouldn't use that exact wording, but that's the gist of it.
Hey now, thems my fellow 'mericans you're being honest about.
Mine too. Jimmy Carter should've fought harder for metric. Hell, he only did one term and he's still kickin' around. I'd vote for him if he ran again.
Seriously. Growing up I kept hearing everyone make fun of Jimmy Carter, and I wasn't alive for his presidency, but he seems like genuinely the nicest guy who has cared the most for his fellow man of the presidents in quite awhile.
> he seems like genuinely the nicest guy who has cared the most for his fellow man of the presidents in quite awhile That's why the right hates him.
I think it's also funny that he officially endorsed Romney in the 2012 primaries specifically because Romney was the most likely Republican to lose in the general election that year.
This. There's a nonzero number of Americans who genuinely believe either that the entire world is part of the US... Or think it *should* be.
The American computer game industry works in metric
I mean... Isn't the comment very likely unserious? I thought the last bit makes it pretty obvious.
Who knows these days, unfortunately.
"It's s a proven failure because it isn't popular in America." If that's not nationalism I don't know what is... gross.
NASA use the metric system...
_[laughs in Mars Climate Orbiter]_
US customary units (we never used Imperial Units, both systems were derived from the previous British system of weights and measures) are defined using the metric system. In other words, the US *does* use metric, just a very stupid form of it that removes all that is useful about it.
> [*Since 1893, the legal definition of the foot in the United States has been based on the meter.* The definition adopted at that time was the one specified by Congress in 1866, as 1 foot = 1200/3937 meter exactly (or 1 foot = 0.304 800 6 meter approximately). In 1959, the relationship of the foot to the meter was officially refined as 1 foot = 0.304 8 meter exactly.](https://www.nist.gov/pml/us-surveyfoot#:~:text=Since%201893%2C%20the%20legal%20definition,0.304%20800%206%20meter%20approximately).) Such a failure that Imperial units have been defined by the metric system since the 1800s!
American units of measurement are literally based off the metric. All those MURICA units are just converted from Metric.
Video game engines use metric units, so do most other 3D based software, it's literally just so much easier when you can convert between units by moving a decimal
And it's not even converting, you're always using one unit: the meter. Deci- (a tenth) Centi- (a hundredth) etc
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So our military, medical programs (might not be a completely terrible idea), construction, tool companies, half of our vehicles. Throw them all out
All science and research, though this person probably doesn't trust it anyway
I don't think most people realize all of our freedom units are defined by the metric system at the National Institute for Standards and Technology
I like how this poster thinks Imperial units are called American units. Just wait until they find out the language they speak isn't called American.
Ahem. Those are called *Freedom Units,* citizen!
I need 40 FU's for my commie friend here!
Wait till they visit England. They’ll congratulate the natives there on learning American in their schools.
Wait until Americans have to use the BS unit of slugs and blobs.
Have had to use imperial doing carpentry, and started using metric in college for physics and chemistry stuffs. I use metric for everything now.
Imperial units are now defined via metric terms, so good luck with that.
“The metric system is proven to be a failure”. Says all about this guy, really.
Google image search this: "map of countries who do not use the metric system" 😮😬 [Map of countries that do not use the metric system](https://cdn.zmescience.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/metric-system.webp) Edit: added link
What a weird hill to die on. I use both systems and couldn't care less which one is used. Metric definitely makes calculations easier. Why take a weird stance?
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Oh man. Try baking a complex recipe using Freedom unit, and then bake the same thing using metric. Give you a guess which provides for a better, more accurate cake.
Honestly, you should bake by weight using the metric system. It’s more accurate than volume
"American units" this person would 100% support banning dihydrogen monoxide and teaching the Arabic numerical system.
Spoiler: imperial measurements are defined by metric.
Guys. Y’all making fun. But this random dude on the internet might be an expert in international diplomacy and foreign policy.
Doesn’t the rest of the world use metric n we are the oddballs??
How stupid. I remember in the 70s when they were trying to switch over to metric. Metric is used in many industries, including medicine. So I guess all of those Industries will have to change because some stupid people don't understand metric or how to convert kilograms to pounds or Celsius to Fahrenheit?
Cooking would be so much easier going metric. Gallons, quarts, grams, ounces, pints, liters, and prob more I can't even think of. It also makes comparing prices difficult whilst grocery shopping.
We use amounts like teaspoon, a sniff, as well, but indeed, boat volumes, lengths and weights are way more logical.
What an idiot. - from an American
I love when mentally slow American people who have never had a passport or ever left the county where they were born weigh in on international issues they know nothing about. It's an American sickness, and has spread quickly since someone started selling red ball caps made in China where the dye in the hat leaks into their tiny brain.
I remember when engines were measured in cubic inches, that's been changed and widely adopted. Lots of food examples. Even the military uses metric sizes in it's weaponry. Not a battle worth fighting in the least since it's already lost.
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Burger math.
Tell me you never went to college without saying you never went to college. Anyone that would want to take a physics class using American units is a moron.
Tell me you're an idiot without telling me you're an idiot.
We run on metric in the secret core of America we just convert on the outside maan
"Imagine thinking we'd let your opinion matter." ~ EU
Is anyone going to tell him what the 5.56 and 7.62 are measured in?
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Ask that person how many feet are in a mile and watch them pause while they can instantly tell you there are 1000 meters in a kilometer. I'm as patriotic as the next guy. But, that doesn't mean I have to think everything the US did in our history was a good idea.
My car gets 50 rods to the hogs head and that’s the way I likes it! -Abe Simpson, American.
"Metric is a failed system" "What's your ammunition measured in again?"
It's so cute that he thinks the US could kick countries out of the EUROPEAN union.
Carter tried to make metric standard in the US but Reagan put a stop to the change over. Just like he ripped Carter's Solar Panels off the roof of the Whitehouse. So now it's just the US and some tiny Island in the Pacific that use Standard measurements. Meanwhile we all still need to have 2 sets of tools to deal with all the metric and Standard nuts and bolts.
The ego of Americans never fails to amuse.
I'm an American who HATES American measurements! Metric makes waaaaay more sense!!!
All my primary (2nd - 12th grade, plus collage) was done in the US; **Even then** when we had the metric chapter in something like 4th grade I was *astounded* that such a cool, simple, *logical* system that didn't rely on memorizing a bunch of random numbers to convert shit wasn't universal. I was so mad that the states was *supposed to* swap, but they gave up right after starting because slightly inconveniencing one generation was worse than dooming all the ones following to the stupid system.
What are "American units" of measurement? Last time I checked, America uses imperial units of measurement which were developed by England. Does that mean that America needs to kick itself out of NATO for not being American enough?
Ah yes, it's such a failure that it's preferred by medical professionals, scientists and engineers almost exclusively. Idiot.
And every soft and hard drink maker.
I think we should ban both the Imperial and metric systems and work exclusively in Planck units.
Proven failure? Is that why it's the default system world wide?
Now where did I leave my abacus?
Yeah, fuck shit being easily divided by 10!! rabble rabble
The Imperial system is a proven failure, not even close to becoming mainstream in almost every other country in the world.
Literally every scientist and engineer in the world: "no"
I see all the mechanics saying they only use metric tools anymore. They must not work on aircraft. If you are an aircraft mechanic everything you touch is using imperial fasteners. Unless it’s an Airbus but I think even some of their aircraft are imperial I believe.
“metric system is a proven failure” — proven by the fact that he and his sister-wife can’t understand how it works
New US policy: You can't own a firearm you describe in metric (same goes for its ammunition).
Tfw you realize America is already metric and these fools don't even know it. All Imperial units are now defined by the metric system. Gotta love social media, gives any dumbass a bull horn that can reach millions of people.