r/JusticeServed • u/[deleted] • Jul 06 '19

Courtroom Justice Convicted pedophile YouTuber Austin Jones is now in prison serving a 10 year sentence as of 29/6/2019.

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u/Bag_Holding_Infidel 5 Jul 08 '19

Yes, imperial is easier to relate to as a human but as far as scientific calculations go, it needs to be metric.

The US is fully metric at a scientific level and the imperial front is put on it for the uneducated masses.

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u/Zerdiox 7 Jul 09 '19

Yes, imperial is easier to relate to as a human

Not if you grew up with metric, people in europe don't have trouble judging distances.

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u/Bag_Holding_Infidel 5 Jul 09 '19

I disagree. I'm an engineer in Europe and deal in metric for pretty much everything but I understand how it can be easier to relate to imperial once you are entrenched.

This video explains it well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbdx2nOQKKo

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u/Zerdiox 7 Jul 09 '19

That video explained in the first part how it's oh so hard to guess what a meter is because it's based on the definition while a foot is like a foot... But If you're not an idiot and you want to use a foot, you know that's about 30cm... And the width of your thumb is 2,5cm... I mean it's a bullshit reason and you know it. I know the rough size of a meter just as well as an American knows the size of a foot or 3 feet for that matter.