• lud@lemm.ee
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    5 days ago

    Yes, I know that you use your own fucked up flavour of the Imperial system.

    The metric system is objectively a better system which is why you guys use it when it actually matters (except the times you fuck up because you use two different systems, like with the climate orbiter.)

    FYI: the metric system isn’t really “made up”. All SI base units are defined by physical constants. It’s also a logical system while the Imperial system was dreamt up by some mad lad.

    • bluewing@lemm.ee
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      5 days ago

      Those physical constants were randomly chosen. And they eventually chose a different physical standard only recently. And it STILL contains an error even after all these centuries because one of the original men sent to do the real world measurement cheated at his job and made up some of his measurements to avoid traversing some difficult terrain. So yes, it turns out it’s as “made up” as much as any other system.