Comments by "ke6gwf - Ben Blackburn" (@ke6gwf) on "Is The Metric System Actually Better?" video.

  1. I know that when you are hating on people, facts don't matter, but I happen to be a mask proponent, and I also use metric when convenient, but you are totally wrong to say that the US uses Imperial units. We stopped using them in the 1700s, and use US Customary units, which is a different system from Imperial. The inch didn't even used to match, until finally the UK and US agreed to each shift their respective inch slightly towards the middle lol And the great thing about a free country is that we can choose to use whatever measurement we want, and so no one is forced to use USC over here. However, we still have a vast installed base of USC machines and tooling that would cost billions to replace, so conversions may need to be made in some cases. And enough with the arbitrary examples like a 1 mile bridge railing! No engineer is going to put "1 mile" on the blueprints. It will be in feet, or at least yards, and the math is no more difficult than figuring out how many bolts are needed in a 5280 meter guard rail with posts every 2 meters. In addition, anyone who works with length for more than a few days will be able to remember 5280, just as you remember lots of conversion factors and stuff like Pi. You get all drama Llama about how horrible it must be to have to REMEMBER THINGS, like somehow with metric no conversion factors or anything else needs to be memorized, that it's all just simple multiples of ten in science. Now, if I am not arguing that metric isn't the best for science, and as I said, I use it when convenient, but you have gone beyond logic, ignored facts, and are instead far outside science into the religion of metric, and making arguments that sound like Trump, to prove your beliefs to the people who believe like you, and in the process telling others how they should think and behave. I wish I had an intuitive feel for metric numbers, but unless we spend billions to change all the signs, football fields, books, tools, lumber sizes, (oh wait never mind, most of the world still uses USC lumber sizes, just called out in MM! I smirk whenever I see that! Enjoy your 2440mm 2x4s suckers! ;) ), machine tools, factories, laws, and our very language, and that's not something most of our citizens want or would support, and would take years to do. And stupid videos like this just inflame the situation, and show the complete ignorance of the metric religionists of the basics of our situation or units.
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