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Engineer here. Prefer SI, though it's not a big deal. I actually agree though. Metric system circle jerk is peak mid wit. NPR listener tier people. It is not illegal to use powers of 10 in the imperial system (i.e. "kilo inches" or "kilo feet") so the ease of decimal shifting for real calculations isn't an argument. Obviously, things like horsepower and BTUs are annoying, but those are not really imperial. And they aren't much worse than kilowatt-hour, which metric countries use for electricity and and whatnot.
Both systems are equally arbitrary. Just [look it up](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units). And this is SI. If you say metric, you are probably using Celsius (which is as dumb as Fahrenheit) and degrees (of angle) which is as arbitrary but at least easily divisible. My favorite way to troll "muh metric is better" cucks is to ask if they use kelvin and radians.
The one valid argument against imperial is that it's over defined. This is why Americans don't understand the difference between mass and weight. But to be fair, people around the world use grams and kilograms to mean weight too. But incoherent units are an abomination. The earth's gravity does not belong in the universal expression for kinetic energy, that is just so retarded.
At any rate, this can be solved by dropping one of the pounds, like swapping slug for the pound-mass, or poundal for the pound-force. You can [read about this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherence_(units_of_measurement)) if you want.
Both systems are equally arbitrary. Just [look it up](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units). And this is SI. If you say metric, you are probably using Celsius (which is as dumb as Fahrenheit) and degrees (of angle) which is as arbitrary but at least easily divisible. My favorite way to troll "muh metric is better" cucks is to ask if they use kelvin and radians.
The one valid argument against imperial is that it's over defined. This is why Americans don't understand the difference between mass and weight. But to be fair, people around the world use grams and kilograms to mean weight too. But incoherent units are an abomination. The earth's gravity does not belong in the universal expression for kinetic energy, that is just so retarded.
At any rate, this can be solved by dropping one of the pounds, like swapping slug for the pound-mass, or poundal for the pound-force. You can [read about this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherence_(units_of_measurement)) if you want.