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I’m always disappointed that megameter isn’t a common word. People will say “one thousand kilometers” instead of just “one megameter”.

I’m more disappointed the world renamed one thousand million from milliard to billion.

When translating to Finnish it’s confusing sometimes:
Billion = miljardi = 1 000 000 000
Trillion = biljoona = 1 000 000 000 000
Quintillion = triljoona = 1 000 000 000 000 000 000
You can tell how bad a news site is when they translate billion to biljoona and thus making the amount 1000 times higher.

The only positive thing I see about imperial is that things are easily divisible by 3 and 6, but that’s about it. Then again, if doing the same with metric, you’re usually fine rounding to the nearest millimetre, and if that isn’t accurate enough, it’s probably not supposed to be done by hand anyway.

It’s funny how the biggest argument for metric is that it’s so accurate but in real life use it degrades to “close enough”. My main problem with metric is that I can’t get my pencil that sharp.

My 2 main annoyances with the metric system:

First: The SI unit for mass is the kilogram. That’s fucking stupid. A kilogram is 1000 grams, the base unit for something can’t be “1000 of this other thing”. Because the kilogram is the SI unit for mass, that means that a gram is, by definition, 1/1000th of a kilogram. The stupidity, it burns!

The second one isn’t really an issue with the metric system, it’s more when people are almost using the metric system then fuck it up, like the “Watt Hour” for measuring energy use. You know, there’s already a way of measuring energy use: the “Watt Second”, also known as “The Joule”

If you want to convert between imperial units, going straight from feet to miles is impractical. You’d be better off knowing the chart of survey units, and they’re all small numbers so they’re easy to remember.

12 inches in a foot

3 feet in a yard

22 yards in a chain

10 chains in a furlong

8 furlongs in a mile

Of course, i know this because I do 3d art in blender and refuse to set it to metric.

Remembering 12, 3, 22, 10 and 8 does indeed sound way easier than remembering 1000.

How do you do weight measurements? I noticed a lot of Americans use grams

Nutrition is in grams on purpose to be confusing to a population corpos knew weren’t really raised with it. By 9th grade all Americans have studied the metric system for science class, but it never really becomes intuitive for most people whereas we can hear “a cup of sugar, oh wow that’s a LOT of sugar for just one pitcher of liquid” without doing any in-head conversions

You can tell how bad a news site is when they translate billion to biljoona and thus making the amount 1000 times higher.

Looks like we have something in common! Hämmästyttävä!

Especially with several thousand kilometres.

“Eleven mega metre” rolls off the tongue much better than “eleven thousands kilo metre” IMO.

Okay, but I don’t use a measurement system for close enough, I use a measurement system when I want to be precice.

Than remembering 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10; because metric has more measurements most people don’t use as well!

• 10 millimetres to a centimetre
• 10 centimetres to a decimetre
• 10 decimetres to a metre
• 10 metres to a decametre
• 10 decametres to a hectometre
• 10 hectometres to a kilometre

Or calories on packaging.

Or inches in Europe when talking about a screen from S. Korea, which was designed in cm to begin with.

When you use a cup, we use a deciliter-cup. I agree that cooking gives intuition on units. But who will buy a deciliter cup if no recipe uses deciliters?

Yeah, that’s an important point. Someone needs to think of the deciliter cups if they try to get rid of imperial units in the US.