I find it reassuring that when the UK gov did it's consultation on bringing back barbarian stupid units. Over 98% of respondents said they wanted to just stick with metric.
People do not like change, in that sense people are conservative. Americans would benefit from going over to SI, but many don't want to change.
@tadbithuman America is metric, it just doesn't realise it.
@quixoticgeek sadly no, but we would benefit greatly from it.
@tadbithuman No. It really is. Under the hood, for all the anti metric sentiment, an inch is defined as 25.4mm
@quixoticgeek ah yes, in fact all geodetic surveys in America are performed in metres and then converted to the standard foot (0.3048 m) and/or US survey foot (0.3048006096 m).
The two different measures of feet cause problems when not handled carefully with long things like highways.
@tadbithuman Exactly. US is a metric country, it just doesn't want to admit it.
