2026-10-18 04:00 UTC
Having read a good portion of the comments in this thread and the anti-american sentiment attached, I am convinced that the only reason the US isn’t wholly metric at this point is out of spite.
I know the actual reason is that it would cost too damn much to convert all the infrastructure we’ve built in imperial, but now I just want the USA to keep kicking everyone in the balls at the Olympics, in the military, and with global corporate supremacy just to own it to the world that they’re better than all of you AND they use imperial.
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@kunaltyagi@programming.dev 2026-10-18 05:21
Lots of industries in USA are metric and keeping the imperial around for the social inertia. For engineers/scientists this works. For normal people, this works IFF there’s a gradual change. Eg: every sign that’s replaced should have both units. Every product needs to add both units in within next X years. Then they can make imperial optional after a decade or more of common signs and finally go all in on SI. But ofc no one likes a working solution. They’d rather stick to the measurement system that escaped pirates
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@Magnum@infosec.pub 2026-10-18 06:46
Hahaha yes you guys are the number one 😂
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@Schemen110676@lemmy.ml 2026-10-18 07:23
Imperial is just social inertia