the nation they dedicated their lives to protecting just burns down around us.
The US hasn't needed protection from anything in a long time. What they've been protecting is the US' economic interests, spending trillions on armaments to attack those who can't defend themselves while people back home die of curable illnesses. They're not your paladins, they're the enforcers of your ruling class.
I tried reading the rest of the comments on this post but I think my soul broke, I wanted to reply to multiple of them but the words just didn't come to me
Most of the stuff you interact with daily is much more easily measured in feet and inches vs meters and centimeters
Hard disagree. The centimeter is the best measurement there is for everyday stuff, you can easily express both round values or weird ones, and don't need to switch between two scales as you do with feet and inches (and the stupid fact that there's 12 inches in a feet, wtf). Meters are for distances.
(this ignores decimeters, but I’ve literally never seen anyone use decimeters in my entire life)
BECAUSE THE METRIC SYSTEM IS DECIMAL AND YOU DON'T NEED STUPID CHANGES BETWEEN UNITS, MOST PEOPLE JUST SAY TEN CENTIMETERS!
Celsius is more objective, but when dealing with the standard sorts of temperatures humans are generally concerned with, Fahrenheit gives you more granularity within that range.
If you're measuring ambient temperature, 99% of the time being more precise than 1°C is pointless, in a room you may have more variance than that from a corner to another, same goes for outside. For things where you need better precision you sure as hell wouldn't be using the imperial system, and you could instead take advantage of this neat trick called DECIMALS.
Edit: addendum for everyday convenience: buying shit at the supermarket. The label expresses price per kilo but the packaging is in grams? You don't even need to think about it. Drinks? They can even mix litres and kilos, no problem, the difference would be below negligible.Here in Italy we usually ask for meat cuts in "etti", aka hecto grams aka 100grams, so I look at a cut, I see it's 35€/kg, I ask for 3 etti, immediately know it'll be 10.5€ (ALSO BECAUSE SALES TAX IS INCLUDED ON THE LABEL FFS)
The US hasn't needed protection from anything in a long time. What they've been protecting is the US' economic interests, spending trillions on armaments to attack those who can't defend themselves while people back home die of curable illnesses. They're not your paladins, they're the enforcers of your ruling class.