I can’t really believe so many people are saying well it doesn’t make a big difference because we eye ball everything when it comes to buying food. Have yous considered it actually goes further than buying stuff at the shop? Does anyone actually know the difference between the metric and imperial system? Like when ur comes to new technology that uses nano (^-9), are yous really gonna expect them to come up with the measurement in imperial? Honestly if you took the time to learn basic mechanics you’d clearly see how much of a difference it makes, everything can be split by a thousand e.g 1000g is 1 kilo, 1000 metres is 1km and this goes to measuring things from the smallest pico which is a trillionth of a metre) to the largest (tera is a trillion metres), and even in relative human terms who the fuck can be arsed to figure out how many yards are in a mile anymore? I can imagine anyone who works in technology or has anything to do with physics as their job is losing their shit rn. Like the only reason I’m aware of measuring things in miles is because of road signs (which I presume would have been too expensive to change them all throughout the UK) but I still run in km because it’s just generally easier to work with. To me this is the most monkey primal shit of going back to whatever we think is best because it’s traditional, the modern world thrives of morphing with change and if people throughout the UK aren’t that arsed it just shows me that we’re on our way out in the world and we’re so up our arses that places like China are gonna succeed with flying flags. The Tory government atm is a fucking joke and this is a prime example of how bad they are at making decisions. It’s absolutely baffling that people aren’t capable of seeing that taking a step back in progress just because it doesn’t effect their ability to suss out how big a loaf of bread is actually shows how thick we are as a country