Disliking US measurements is one thing, throwing around literal slurs towards people who are fine with using them is not a good choice.
They have issues but for your average person they’re totally usable, and making insulting comparisons to being mentally disabled over… Inches or cups? Come on.
Be better.
All of those have historical roots. Screws use the ought gauge because they were made from wire which came in those sizes. Not because it is arbitrary, because there was no metric standard, and your screws and bits had sizes based on wire sizes.
All these measures are slowly being forced out or realigned with metric. We no longer get a pint of soda, we get some number of millimeters and a strange fraction of ozs.
Definitely one of those odd useless hills to die on.
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Disliking US measurements is one thing, throwing around literal slurs towards people who are fine with using them is not a good choice. They have issues but for your average person they’re totally usable, and making insulting comparisons to being mentally disabled over… Inches or cups? Come on. Be better.
You are 120% right. I would immediately edit my comment, but got deleted by a mod. Thanks for the correction
Batteries used to have a logic, but now many have gone extinct and the letters seem arbitrary. And more debatable but I’d add dates and continents…
All of those have historical roots. Screws use the ought gauge because they were made from wire which came in those sizes. Not because it is arbitrary, because there was no metric standard, and your screws and bits had sizes based on wire sizes.
All these measures are slowly being forced out or realigned with metric. We no longer get a pint of soda, we get some number of millimeters and a strange fraction of ozs.
Definitely one of those odd useless hills to die on.