sometimes it isn't about what is right or wrong but that everyone is doing it
Listen, the metric system is great and all, but the meter is no less arbitrary and bullshit than any unit in the imperial system.
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My mom taught me not to just go with something because all the cool kids are doing it
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If everything is arbitrary, then please give me something that doesn’t require math gymnastics to convert
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Something based on gravity would probably make sense and be in the same vain as the rest of metric
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main benefits of metric are powers of 10 and interrelated. Inches are my goto example of non 2 (bin), 10 (dec) or 16 (hex) bases
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Fan of metric, just not the meter.
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elaborate
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nvm I missed the rant. Go on.
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But at least it’s one size everything is based on.
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it's not about a single unit, but the system as a wholepic.twitter.com/b9eprf6wxJ
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