It seems like a weird point to bring up. How often do y’all convert your measurements? It’s not even a daily thing. If I’m measuring something, I either do it in inches, or feet, rarely yards. I’ve never once had to convert feet into miles, and I can’t imagine I’m unique in this. When I have needed to, it’s usually converting down (I.e. 1/3 of a foot), which imperial does handle better in more cases.

Like. I don’t care if we switch, I do mostly use metric personally, it just seems like a weird point to be the most common pro-metric argument when it’s also the one I’m least convinced by due to how metric is based off of base 10 numbering, which has so many problems with it.

Edit: After reading/responding a lot in the comments, it does seem like there’s a fundamental difference in how distance is viewed in metric/imperial countries. I can’t quite put my finger on how, but it seems the difference is bigger than 1 mile = 1.6km

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    20 hours ago

    Canada uses imperial in certain context unofficially. Feet and inches for a person’s height, or a cut of wood. You won’t see miles or gallons anywhere, though. The UK is even weirder - they use “stone” for a person’s weight, which is a customary unit in no complete system of measurements.

    • Kristell@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lolOP
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      8 hours ago

      From the wikipedia article:

      The plural stone is often used when providing a weight (e.g. “this sack weighs 8 stone”).[34] A person’s weight is usually quoted in stone and pounds in English-speaking countries that use the avoirdupois system, with the exception of the United States and Canada, where it is usually quoted in pounds.

      Which I checked for fun. I love how they say that like therr are more than 4 countries fitting that description. 2 of them use stone, 2 don’t, at least I think. Can’t find anything official on whether Liberia uses it or not, but I’ve heard UK people say it.

      Just the fact that they say it like it’s not a 50/50 split xD