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No... Actually, the person you're talking to is correct. We switch back and forth in metric all the time, fluidly, because it's easy. The things you're describing and many more are normal parts of the metric system, and your flat assumption that it never happens because you assume it's too hard and unnatural is kind of a solid demonstration of how metric is superior.
"Hey Steve, will you hand me that .00001 km wrench?"
Do you really get a 2 meter measurement from one guy, then turn around and tell another it's 20 decimeters? No. More likely you get a meter measurement and keep using that meter measurement unless it needs to be broken down into pieces. "Cut the 2 meter rod down to 1.9 meters... actually, make it 1950 millimeters."
There are three feet in a yard. There's 12 inches in a foot. Those are literally the only conversions we will ever do and, guess what? They're conversions you do on a clock every day without issue. Dozenal shit. "The rods are 2 yards, go ahead and cut it down to about five feet... actually, make it 66 inches." Wow, almost like the supremacy of metric doesn't mean anything when you know a different system.
I really wonder how the rest of the world handles computers, since you're all so violently unable to grasp anything that isn't decimal. Base 8 and 16 have to just overheat your sad little non-American brains.
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Buddy. Take the L. You know how there's the popular saying: if you think everyone else is an arsehole, it's probably you. The anology here being you think everyone is else is blind, when it's you.
No one is suggesting not to use base 8 and 16 in computing because those are appropriate for thei use-cases.
If the imperial system was internally consistent it would be just as great as metric. A fully dozenal system would be dope! So many fractions (for real, that'd be sick. Microfeet, 1/(12⁶) of an ft, or 10-⁶ ft in base 12, sign me up. Take a ft³ relate that to a unit of volume and mass via water..... Wait this is just metric but base 12). But it isn't, So take the L.
Metric is objectively (removing things that are just preference) better or the same in every, single, way. It's entertaining for you to try find examples, so please, continue.
"In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade—which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it. Whereas in the American system, the answer to ‘How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?’ is ‘Go fuck yourself,’ because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities." Josh Bazell