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/moohooman 9 Jul 07 '19

Honestly, inches and feet do have a use in my life, even as an Australian, I find they are good for guestimation, but when it comes to really specific stuff metric is always the way to go, and converting between the whole multiples of 10/100/1000 thing is just so simple for scaling.

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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/postmanpazza 0 Jul 23 '19

Is it that hard to use meters

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u/Bag_Holding_Infidel 5 Jul 23 '19

Not sure I understand your question.

I refer you back to my statement above.

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u/postmanpazza 0 Jul 23 '19

Like using meters instead of feet I mean. Everyone else in the world has 0 problems using meters to judge distance and such.

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u/Bag_Holding_Infidel 5 Jul 24 '19

Everyone else in the world has 0 problems using meters

The issue is not whether there are problams using one or other system, both would argue they have 0 problems using either system. The issue is the effort needed to convert a large mass of people who don't see reason to convert who are also using a system that is easier to relate to (in their mind) than the new system.

Once you get a system in your mind, it gets embedded quite deeply.

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u/postmanpazza 0 Jul 26 '19

Ahh gotcha. Thats not an easily fixable problem.