The metric system is rationalist anti-human BS.

The thing is, despite the fact that it’s based on our own ten fingers, I don’t like the metric system. I don’t like a system that requires decimal calculations and which won’t easily divide by anything other than 5 or 2. It is not ultimately logical for people who make clothes out of four basic panels (and have to size those panels up and down), and in my opinion anything that requires an infinitely repeating decimal to represent a third of the measuring unit is crazy. It just doesn’t make my life better. The system was made up by a bunch of rationalists who got carried away with creating a completely new system that people in different countries would accept — for the sole reason that they wanted something new. It figures that it caught on — only something this untidy and bizarre would.

That said, I’m not particularly tied to the US’s semi-Imperial system. Figuring out how to reduce recipes from cups to tablespoons etc. is excruciating.

It’s just that the metric system isn’t any better, merely the usual modern rationalist religion claptrap that ignores human needs for the convenience of spreadsheet fuckery.

BTW, I am completely comfortable in the metric system. Was in the army for five years, where that is used exclusively. It’s not lack of familiarity, but rather familiarity that breeds derision.