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- Why AI?
- Why in retarded units?
- Why is the data incorrect? “In fact, a coyote’s fastest sprinting speed is 64 km/h (40 mph), which is twice that of a roadrunner’s at 32 km/h (20 mph).”
Honestly I never really have fully gotten the whole metric vs imperial debate. The best solution is a hybrid system, which we already use and most people don’t realize it. Like if you are in a country that already used metric, guess what your time keeping system is from? From the older imperial system! Guess what you use if you are in an imperial country? You use liters, milliliters, gram and milligrams for stuff already! Just mix the two so you have the best of both worlds rather than try to remain dogmatically stuck with an objectively worse version of either system.
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Goddamn I thought you had reading comprehension for a second there, my mistake.
The best solution is a hybrid system, which we already use…
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if you are in a country that already used metric, guess what your time keeping system is from? From the older imperial system!
Here is an article for metric time: https://metrictime.info/ Does that look that look like the classic 24 hours in a day system most people use? No? Congrats than you learned something today.
If you want to convert people who use imperial then don’t be an asshole and alienate them. But if you are gonna be an asshole at least be right about the thing you are talking about. I know metric time is largely forgotten but at least have a basic understanding if you want to talk shit.
I know metric time is largely forgotten but at least have a basic understanding if you want to talk shit.
The “second” as we know it today is an SI, aka metric, unit. Modern time calculation is designed and revolved around it. The exact words “metric time” as SI knows it is for intervals, which is a domain completely different to the time of day you’re talking about. A metric system for time of day is either exactly what we have or nonexistent. There is no such things as imperial time; US customary units are only for length, area, volume, mass, and weight (and that’s all the metric activists are asking to replace). If you’re going to be pedantic about something at least be right about it. And here I expected to find interesting discussion over decimal time… (which, I’ll still note, is neither what you’ve sent which appears to be invented randomly in 2024, nor ever part of the metric system.)
So you see science and some can bottlers using liters and kilograms while the other things are imperial quarts and pounds. How the heck is that better? Now you’ve got to convert when you want to add some bottled water (lead pipes, anybody?) preparing your cookie bowl unless you’re up to buying two different sets of measuring cups, and mental physics and chemistry that involve any sort of calculation are impossible.
You also might want to learn about all the different units of length, area, volume, mass, and weight that the metric system thankfully completely replaced and thus harmonized. Read about why Columbus thought the Earth was that small—he thought the mile was as long as a mile. US customary is simply yet another local set of units that happen to be American with British names. The only reason the imperial countries haven’t made a change is they gained capital and Western influence without being ruled by France or the Soviet Union.
