I'm sure all is intended to be tounge-in-cheek, but metrics is not commie at all - simply European/International. As an engineer graduate from a deep-red state university, it actually makes more sense. However, as an American, I also hate metrics. But, Q: how do you think good old American railroad tracks got to be 4-foot, 8.5-inches apart...kind of an odd dimension, don't you think?; A: not schooner wagon, but rather standard Roman Chariot track width. Look it up.
FYI, from Wikipedia:
History of the current metric system[
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Main articles:
History of the metric system and
Metrication
View attachment 1668498Pavillon de Breteuil, Saint-Cloud, France, the home of the metric system since 1875
The
French Revolution (1789–99) provided an opportunity for the French to reform their unwieldy and archaic system of many local weights and measures.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand championed a new system based on natural units, proposing to the
French National Assembly in 1790 that such a system be developed. Talleyrand had ambitions that a new natural and standardised system would be embraced worldwide, and was keen to involve other countries in its development.
Great Britain ignored invitations to co-operate, so the
French Academy of Sciences decided in 1791 to go it alone and they set up a commission for the purpose. The commission decided that the standard of length should be based on the
size of the Earth. They defined that length to be the 'metre' and its length as one ten-millionth of the length of an
Earth quadrant, the length of the meridian arc on the Earth's surface from the equator to the north pole. In 1799, after the
arc measurement had been surveyed, the new system was launched in France.
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I now expect to get vilified.
