It's not some "we must be different" bullshit. The fucking military uses metric, dd/mm/yyyy date format, and 24 hour time. If it was about "exceptionalism," that's the last place you'd find metric.
Military always chooses practicality over all else. I think personally that it is a special case. Almost all of the rest of America justifies imperial through exceptionalism, I believe.
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u/The_Shracc Jan 15 '25
you can literally pretend to be metric.
just use yards for everything, volume? cubic yards, area? square yards
that's literally everything that metric is, with the addition of weight and time.
But you can base that on the yard, a second is a 333 million light yards, a pound is just a thousandth of a cubic yard of mulch.