I’m gonna start estimating distances in millimiles.

333.3 yards = 1 kilofeeter

This would be acceptable

This is a common misconception. Americans can't do math and don't learn anything at school

Kinda.... The classes "teach" imperial but guns/bullets are metric

There's almost never a need to involve units outside of science which typically is metric anyway. Also most of these units aren't really ever converted between, no one gives a measurement as 1 mile 300 yards 2 feet 6 inches.

Huh?

Rod? Chain? What is this bdsm?

Don't make me math

Links and chains brings me back to my old drafting days. 10 square chains are 1 acre. 80 chains is a mile.

I measure battery capacity and electricity consumption in J/kJ/MJ, as intended. None of that kWh bullshit.

It also makes for fun comparison with energy value of foods.

Energy is energy, after all.

I only use metric when it's in forms nobody else uses or recognizes at a glance because I need to be difficult. Decimeter is perfect for like, height of a person, for example. Why do they use CM?

0.01 Petameters

shopping for a new mailbox today, they used number of baseballs it can fit as the units and/or basketball for the big ones

I prefer absolute units and natural units.

1 acre (us international acre)=  0.999996 acres(us survey acres).

Even inside the US they use two different measures for acre.

How is it safe from ridicule? It's dumb

This is upsetting

Wow, base 12, I never thought of thas! You halve it, quarter it, and third it, and still end up with clean integers.

A dozenal metric system would work as well as the decimal metric system, as long as everything else was base-12:

Since we're at this might as well say the day has 10₁₂k's = 20736₁₀s. Each k's is exactly two of our current hours, and each "new second" is roughly two four of our current seconds. Enough of this Sumerian mixed base already!

I'm a carpenter as well, and I hear what you're saying, but also my coworkers and I were just talking yesterday about how much better metric is 😅 Every base-12 advantage is weakened by the fact that I'm constantly expected to do fractions. Everything in metric is a whole number and it's so hot. Love it when I get an actual number to build something to, instead of a math problem.

If you've ever ordered lumber from a Canadian company, you know how much easier it is to calculate and order in metric units vs. board-feet. I feel bad for their sales reps who have to deal with us Yankeestanis.

Also, all the really nice chisels and hand tools from Japan and Europe are already in metric.

What do you do when a piece you're cutting isnt exactly a foot, say, 11 or 13 inches? I know nothing about woodworking, but I'm assuming there isnt a unified standard to make everything match to the nearest whole foot, so then this whole base 12 thing goes out the window, or am I missing something here?

I've setup a software that generate quotes, sales invoice and production order for a windows and door company. The sales person enter the dimensions and option of the window and it automatically calculate the price, the exact amount material, deduct it from the inventory and generate the cutting and assembly instruction.

They were all working with fractional inches. I've started setting up the system using inches and it was a NIGHTMARE ! I quickly decided to convert everything on metric in the back end and to do all the calculations on that and I reconvert it in inches at the end.

Now most of the workers are using metric because it just make more sense.

In hex:

10 mm = 1cm
100cm = 1m
1000m = 1km
1km - 1m = FFFm = 0.FFFkm

Still works fine.

Measurement system doesn't have anything to do with numerical base. You can use any base with any system.

16m = Fm

which is pretty ass if you ask me

Annie, are you Oakley? Are you Oakley, Annie?

0.0000000003448 GIGAmeters just doesn't sound that impressive...

I love that I'm seeing him in the wild now. One of my favourite creators, no doubts about it.

Rods damnit you forgot rods

4 rods to a chain

That is not exactly metric 's fault though. It's whoever made the decision to portray stuff as such in operating systems

I got a question about hard drive sizes on a math test 15 years ago. Was super frustrating, since I didn't know wether or not the person who wrote the test, knew the difference.