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why are still not using metric?
We've been in the process of switching to the metric system since 1976, and officially (semi-)adopted it in 1991.
Unofficially, people are stubborn and anti-Europe.
If it makes you feel better, some cooks, all scientists and and all people involved in the drug trade are fluent in metric.
Me, an american, carrying a 9mm and buying 3 grams
Hell yeah brother.
Because it provides zero practical benefit for the vast majority of people.
Thereβs no reason to other than to be the same as everyone else, and we already are for anything scientific or medical.
Fahrenheit is better than Celsius for weather. It's a larger scale that doesn't have to involve decimals.
Celsius is how the temperature feels to water, whereas Fahrenheit is more of how the temperature feels to a human.
But this is basically only true for the temperature ranges seen in weather.
Fahrenheit is how the scale between the temperature of a specific brine solution to the estimated temperature on a specific women with a fever "feels". It is not based on humans in any way. That is only what Americans like to push because they have only ever known Fahrenheit.
To me Celsius is how the temperature feels to a human. Because that is what I've grown up with.
How humans perceive things like temperature also widely ranges. What for some is too hot, for other is too cold. Had Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit grown up in a different climate, your entire temperature scale would be different.
Human senses is thus a dumb way to base any scale on. Better to use something static ... like water. One of the most abundant things on our planet.
Because retooling is expensive. I applaud the adaptation, but we have a lot of tools written that way. Also, are patents written in English or metric units? Would that invalidate them?
Other countries have done it successfully.
Is the USA incapable of doing things that others have done?
Yes.
Have you seen our healthcare system?
Lol
Expensive for little-to-no benefit.
Tell that to The Mars Climate Orbiter
Anyway, it is only going to become more expensive as time goes on. The cheapest was back in 1790. The next cheapest is now.
Wars are a much better investment.
Expensive is relative.
Parents are written in customary primarily, but the patent office recommends listing units in both for global clarity.
It wouldn't invalidate them because customary is defined by metric, so there's no ambiguity. It's exactly the same as saying "the bar is 1 meter long" vs "the bar is 100 centimeter long". An inch is just a quaint way to write 25.4 mm.
the same reason they don't speak french.
you can use metric, just like you can speak french.
but people will think you're talking gibberish.