SaraMGY'all, America desperately needs to embrace the metric system.
Fer reals.
Jim Goodall@saramg There are only three countries in the entire world NOT using metric.
Liberia
Myanmar
United States
America is in good company.
Scott Williams 🐧@jimgoodall @saramg When the English and Aussies weigh themselves in "stone", which metric system are they using?
@vwbusguy @saramg
Stone predates metric.
I'm Canadian and use both imperial and metric, because I'm old enough.
Try being in Canada and measuring distances in hours driven.
Construction measurements are metric, but when you measure yourself, it's feet and inches.
Shipping weight is metric, but a person's weight is pounds.
Weather temperature is Celcius, but normal body temperature is 98.6 degrees.
It's a bizarre mix.
Haelwenn /элвэн/ 
@lanodan @vwbusguy @jimgoodall This is actually, shockingly close to my flowchart. Though I've erased Fahrenheit from my world with the exception of cooking.. The bit about cooking (temps and measures) is spot effing on.
@saramg @lanodan @jimgoodall One thing that's always interesting to me is that I never hear Americans use the term "Imperial". You might rarely hear a Canadian gallon referred to as "Imperial" but we call it Standard (or US Standard). A hardware store person might ask you "Standard or Metric?" (if Metric is even an option for that tool).
@saramg @lanodan @jimgoodall When people say stuff like "US needs to got off Imperial measurements", the first thought is "When did we adopt Canadian gallons" before I realize they're conflating US Standard and Imperial because the units have the same names.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_the_imperial_and_US_customary_measurement_systems
@saramg @lanodan @jimgoodall Odd fun fact, the US Standard system is actually older than the Imperial system in terms of definition of the standards.
@vwbusguy @saramg @jimgoodall So UK adopted US standards but changed few bits? Or most unit conversion software are just doing it wrong?
@lanodan @saramg @jimgoodall Nah, more like US is preserving an older system that got codified half a century before the UK one did. Same thing for US English versus UK. Often US English preserves older pronunciations or wording preferences as UK English continued to evolve and standardize well after the separation.
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@lanodan @saramg @jimgoodall Or perhaps more relevant:
