<p>“Kidding aside, we have had a major genocide.”</p>
<p>If you’re referring to blacks (as slaves), they were usually selectively breed to make them stronger. That’s eugenics, not genocide.</p>
<p>If you’re referring to American Indians, that was Europe. You could say America was part of some one-sided wars, but anything you could call genocide was on the part of Europe.</p>
<p>I hate the metric system. People say its less confusing but its way more confusing. Our measurements are way more usble in real life. Like millimeters. How often d you need to mention something in millimeters? And even centimeters are too small. And then it jumps all the way to meters. Which is a thousand times as big. We have inches and twelve of those is a foot and it only takes three of those to equal a yard.</p>
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Well. Judging from this paragraph I can see why you think the metric system is confusing.</p>
<p>^LOL</p>
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Well I’m not sure how much of a role Europe played in the 1780-1900 phase of the genocide, but if you think they were still responsible, ok.</p>
<p>You didn’t know Andrew Jackson was an undercover European?</p>
<p>almost there - get your head out of your ass, it only sounds weird because you’re used to hearing inches and feet. and there’s only one hundred centimeters in a meter.</p>
<p>I would first like to say that in order to determine how much better or worse we are off than the rest of the world, it’s necessary to go visit other places. I’ve been living in England for three months now, have one month left, and although it’s pretty cool I’m so glad I live in America for several different reasons.</p>
<p>Now to the metric system, it really isn’t that exciting. Oh, and did I mention England uses a mix? It’s pretty confusing because they use Imperial for road signs and distances, but everything else is metric. I still can’t ever figure out what temperature it is here except I was able to switch weather.co.uk to Fahrenheit. It took me awhile to figure out what each drink size was (330 mL= 12 oz., etc.) and they still order things in pints anyways. So it’s pretty weird. So I agree that switching to the metric system’s benefits are far outweighed by the costs. There’s really no extra convenience.</p>
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Did you read my response carefully?
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<p>I think that some Imperial units are very practical for non-scientific purposes:</p>
<p>Temperature: Celsisus uses the freezing and boiling points of water as 0 and 100 degrees respectively (as these are 32 and 212 F respectively) this means that the range of outdoor temperatures is usually below 45, this means that saying the temperature is in the “high twenties” doesn’t mean much because 26 is noticeably different to 29. Fahrenheit, at least where I live (Boston) is very practical because 0 degrees F is about as cold as it gets (below that and you’re too cold to care about the exact number) and 100 F is about as hot as it gets (again if it’s above 100 it’s too hot to care). While it doesn’t get to 0F in California, you ca make new parameters and set 50 as the cold baseline for example.</p>
<p>Actually socialism is a good thing…</p>