What a time to be alive… For now

I live in both worlds, metric and imperial. I know one is objectively better. That’s not what I’m saying.

What I’m telling you is that the world is full of convoluted, arbitrary standards. Even the length of 1 meter or 1gram was arbitrary to start. Using 100 divisions of liquid water’s STP points is very arbitrary. Science uses what it wants. Great. Science used to demand people speak Latin or French, too.

What you’re also missing is that 99% of Americans do not care one bit that people going to university need to learn something else. They also learn fancy words! They learn how to use the weird v on the calculator! They’re expected to learn strange esoteric nonsense (per the average person). That’s work for them.

Whatever the large, large number of people on the left side of the IQ bell curve learn as kids is what will stick because many undereducated people deal with a lot of fear and living life around loss aversion. Changing something like units of measure is a fundamental element of their experience in life. To change that triggers huge loss aversion biases. Idiot patents will wage culture wars so they can raise kids just as stupid as they are. You don’t even understand this is a psychological issue.

Go look at the panic around the redesign of the US dollar I’m 1996. I forget who said it, but “Americans are creatures of habit.” We treat our post-WWII “traditions” like they’re older than the sun. It’s a conservative country, and this change of any sort is fought tooth and nail.

You’re trying to use logic to make a case against an emotional and cultural artifact. Disagree all you want. Shout it from the rooftops. Doesn’t make it so, or even you “right” or me “wrong.” There only wrong is if you think it’s a choice the average person makes any more than they choose their name.

And that list should have educated you on how many actually practical things there are that are potentially easier or more practical to change (LOL) before worrying about metric units, like it’s some holy war for science. Science don’t care about your feelings. It doesn’t need you to convince random people online of anything. Go DO science instead.

Ooooh, they’re still out there. They just need users who aren’t an average of 85 years old.

Referendums. Or riots. You know, whatever people are feeling.

IRL, when commercial solar plants produce more than demand, they ground out the surplus. Just shoot it into the ground. Commercial plants don’t have easy ways to store power.

The easiest option for you is to pump water uphill into a tank.

Mostly metric, but I’ve lived in metric land long enough that temperature and distance are intuitive now.

TBH, it’s a foolish “argument” to have as some hard dividing line when electric voltage, plugs, which side of the road people drive on, money, language, alphabets, shoe size numbers, for a while video format, the size of printer paper, the age where adults can drink alcohol, car safety specs, governance systems, whether or not eating horse meat is OK, the day on which Christmas falls, marginal tax rates, flags, what we call headache medicine, what medicines are over the counter, and standard fuel grades, among a million other things, are also varied globally.

Just make them illegal.

Uh…How do I cancel? Tired of paying for this, don’t want it, never wanted it.

I literally emailed a bunch of people doing wildlife conservation and begged them “This is a bubble. Please sell cheesey lion photo NFTs for money. This won’t last.”

Most normal experience of life before 2005-2010ish.

The real old school version would have you both become pen pals and mail each other letters a few times a year for decades until one is you died or moves.