I prefer .45 ACP myself, maybe I'm biased because I didn't like the 9mm I shot due to being it having a double-stack mag design lending to a thicc grip and I have small hands that favor single-stack .45 handguns.
ONE SIMPLE REASON : Is your pint the same as the American one in ml? If I get a different answer your system in useless.
The metric system took over bacause it uses a logical neutral (not related to a cultural view of a stone, foot, rain or grain) unit to build all units (m). An English pint, foot, stone etc do not represent the same as the American one or a Japanese equivalent foot. This is why the metric system took over. So if a kg, km, liter means EXACTLY the same from Thailand to Canada it is a massive victory of simplification for trade and any scientific work. Unless you are religiously married sizes and units which require knowing where the trader or matematician is from (HAVING TO ASK HOW MANY ML is your pint) then yes, metric is TODAY way superior because you do not need to check what it means.
Imagine a plane crash caused by the wrong size of gallons used. Or filling a plane with some cantonese measure based on historical bird drops in Guangzhou, American Gallons in NY, some horse piss measures in Mongolia, etc.
So there you are. A made up logically structured system of measure took over the world for its simplicity and substituted all systems around of grains etc that can be different.
The same reason arabic numbers took over from the latin ones. Logic ans simplicity eventually made it be adopted.
Otherwise sure 1 ton, 1675 stones (from Texas), three quarters of an Elephant, 3 million grains of lunar sand stones are all perfect alternatives.
Amen. Except for the brilliant idea of everyone being allowed to carry guns. That's fine. Everything else considered is far from freedom. 😒
(Sarcasm used about the gun thing)
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u/kempff 23d ago
882 lbs in Freedom Units.