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My take after watching this: I like yard/feet/inches and farenheit but everything else is probably better off metric.
As a Canadian who doesn't use Fahrenheit, I kind of like the concept of Fahrenheit after I learned more than just hearing people make fun of it.
(With that said, I like Celsius in that I know that every degree below zero is increasingly lethal, since we're made largely of water ourselves.)
they've got a video about it! specifically their complaint is that the only numbers that divide 10 perfectly are 2 and 5
the thing about units of measurement, well
the entire point of them isn't so much reproducibility—that's more of of a thing they have to achieve—the point of them is interoperability
and, well, at some point you have to ignore the technical considerations and look at the social ones
in other words, imperial measurements are like holding onto ebcdic
it's convenient within the existing legacy systems but presents an obstacle to interacting with the larger world around it
anyway i do agree that pretending imperial units are a consistent system is unfair, but at the same point, the fact that metric is a consistent system and imperial isn't, is a huge point in it's favour
i do find the point about feet and miles never being used together a bit tenuous because well, the marathon is measured in such
i also do find it hilarious when people are ok with all this 12 bonks to a shoegun and then start measuring things in thousandths of a bonk