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because some places don't realize that imperial units are only used outside of science classes. in science, its all metric for the most part. its not one or the other, its both.
it's like the concept of metric time(yes it did exist at some point). It was eventually dropped. regardless if you think its bad, blame the pirates that raided the ship carrying metric measurements to the US
We used the imperial when I attended 1 year of middle school there, even in science class?
And surely you guys use measurement units outside of scientific context, no? How the fuck is this usable even in everyday example? (https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/23d2321c-d442-451b-b14d-920e0592d640/Screen%20Shot%202020-10-17%20at%2011.47.02%20PM.png)
It physically hurts me to even look at this!
what were you measuring in middle school of all things, that would warrant using imperial units...
if you cant look at anything not based 10, I hope you dont handle anything time or computer related
Was your measurement systems values decided by a drunk dice game?
1/12->1->3->5280->6080
Just say that out loud
when do you use all of those measurements in the same context is the follow up question.
for example, why do europeans still use calories for food. the SI unit for energy is joule. things are decided because "thats what people are used to" . the calorie is not an SI unit.
Why would you change calories into joules?
And what do you mean you europeans? You guys use calories too! So does china and… I have not been to any other countries but I am fairly certain they use calories too!
which is the point, because the answer on why people in the US use imperial units is because it's what theyre used too . you asked why change calories into joules? the same sentiment is said for ANY fucking measurement. It's not an issue of being pro imperial or pro metric, its to point out the fact that its just a matter of what units you are just used to measuring in.
because joules is the SI unit to measure energy, and Calorie is the amount of energy it takes to increase the temperature of 1 square centimeter of water by 1 degree celcius. why have 2 measurements of energy? 1 (kilo) calorie is 4184 Joules. an equally ridiculous number when comparing to imperial numbers.