Why doesn't metric make sense?

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I remember learning metric in elementary school and promptly forgetting it when the section was finished and I passed the test. Maybe it's because I'm in the US and we don't use metric much every day. But imperial just makes perfect sense to me while metric looks like a weird mess. WTF is a kilometer again? It's just easier for me to use the system I grew up with. Just like it's easier for metric system users to use metric.
 
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1 foot: the length of a mans foot.

1 meter: the distance traversed by light in 0.00000000333564095 seconds (a second is the duration of 9192631770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom)

metricels call this useful and practical btw
 
Metric is only really useful for converting metric to itself. But if you ever need to convert units it means you measured wrong the first time. Conclusion? Just don't be wrong and use Imperial.

Always remember that metric is taught all over the world because it's the special education of measurements.
 
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Metric is scientific because it's based on the speed of light and on quantum theory and vibrations of atoms and shit like that that nobody understands but is irrelevant to its everyday usage.
The superiority of metric for everyday usage is it's all base 10 conversions, you have SI standard prefixes for most units that just scale the number by powers of 10. Well, except for weight, which keeps some older names for the prefixes, but it's still all based on powers of 10. 1 gram is the base weight unit, 1 kilogram is 1000 times that, 1 ton is 1000 kilograms. Below 1 gram you have standard prefixes like milli, micro, nano, and so on.
Distances: meter is the base, then you have standard prefixes kilo, centi, deci, milli, micro, nano.

There's no non-base-10 conversions you have to do for the same measurement, like in imperial you have weird conversions I don't remember for inches to feet to yards to miles. Same for gallons, pints, quarts. Or ounces, pounds. Or the fractional measurements for inches that's standard for bolts, pipes and pipe threads. Adding two metric measurements together is easy, two fractional inch measurements together is adding two fractions with different denominators, requires multiplying or dividing and several steps.
 
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Metric is scientific because it's based on the speed of light and on quantum theory and vibrations of atoms and shit like that that nobody understands but is irrelevant to its everyday usage.
The superiority of metric for everyday usage is it's all base 10 conversions, you have SI standard prefixes for most units that just scale the number by powers of 10. Well, except for weight, which keeps some older names for the prefixes, but it's still all based on powers of 10. 1 gram is the base weight unit, 1 kilogram is 1000 times that, 1 ton is 1000 kilograms. Below 1 gram you have standard prefixes like milli, micro, nano, and so on.
Distances: meter is the base, then you have standard prefixes kilo, centi, deci, milli, micro, nano.

There's no non-base-10 conversions you have to do for the same measurement, like in imperial you have weird conversions I don't remember for inches to feet to yards to miles. Same for gallons, pints, quarts. Or ounces, pounds. Or the fractional measurements for inches that's standard for bolts, pipes and pipe threads. Adding two metric measurements together is easy, two fractional inch measurements together is adding two fractions with different denominators, requires multiplying or dividing and several steps.
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the best thing about metric is that it's designed so that when you combine the units with each other to get other physical units it's all super smooth

like, 1 newton(N) is 1kg * 1m / 1s^2
1 joule(J) is 1N * 1m
1 watt(W) is 1J / 1s
1W corresponds to 1 volt * 1 ampere in electricity
etc

try doing conversion like that starting from feet and pounds instead of meters and kilograms, and you'll quickly find yourself asking chatgpt how to tie a hangmans knot
 
America is full of idiots. The metric system is king. Americans use it every day and don’t even understand it. Morons
 
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