/k/ - Weapons

Fuck the imperial system.

>>598923

Spoken like a true colonist

>>598923

>hidden flag

>>598841

I guess the next step is getting a blade made to match?

>>598925

>Spoken like a true colonist

But we use the imperial system.

>>598925

Says the colonist?

Interesting. Can't tell from the images; what are they made of? Hope you didn't fall for the 3-d printing meme.

>>598841

What's up with low polygon holes? Couldn't your CAD software produce actual circles? Did you use GIMP for this?

Also you must always specify units. They could've went full retard and use meters as units, manufacturing world's biggest handle and giving you world's biggest bill.

>>598939

This! I want a axis lock machete!

>>598936

Lol probably fusion 360

>>598925

>Liberia, Myanmar and the USA still use imperial

>clearly it's the best system

Even your military has dropped it, there are hood niggers in the army that can figure it out yet the public still can't?

>>599097

The military uses it because of NATO.

Britain unofficially uses imperial because, woah, changing systems of measurement out of nowhere causes a fuckload of problems and people don't like it.

>>599126

>Britain unofficially uses imperial because

m8, only people in their 50s and up use imperial. It will soon die out.

>>598931

US Standard != Imperial

>>599097

lol imperial is easy, metricfags are dummies

>>599143

>f I say it's 24 and an eighth Celsius

Then you don't understand how metric works, because that would be 24.125°C. As for the rest of your post, it's just the typical Bürger drivel about how you can't use metric if you grew up with Imperial. Let's just look at the height of a man: I can understand the difference between 175cm and 178cm, yet I'd have no idea what's the difference between "5 feet and 8.8976 inches" and "5 feet and 10.0787 inches". And it's even worse in practice, because instead of giving a precise value you'd either round it up or add fractions. I can use mm, cm and m just fine, and I can calculate with 4.8km/h instead of 5km/h. If it's too complicated for you, then you have problems with simple arithmetics. And last and not least: the current official definition of an inch is 25.4mm.

>>599164

>I take you didn't grew up using metric, and only learned it later

My dad was actually an autistic progressive who insisted on me learning metric despite my mother using imperial measurements because he insisted the US would be metric by the time I was grown up, so I learned both at the same time and had to constantly do conversions growing up.

>>599161

Going to have to agree. The powerfully ironic part of Farenheit is that IT is the closest to a "metric" 0-100 scale in real life conditions that human beings live in than C. Most people live in areas that have highs closer to 100 and lows closer to 0, thus F is the perfect "scale of 0-100" how fucking hot/cold it is for weather conditions. In all honesty, it is more useful in these conditions than scientifically more useful C.

Kg edges on the point of being too heavy for a lot of measurements, many find a pound of meat to be a good buying size, for instance, while it takes a few people to eat a KG of meat. But you say "Well, we'll just sell it by the half KG. Half. HALF. As in 1/2. As in a FUCKING FRACTION. OH THE HORROR. I see they sell certain European gun powders in half kilo jugs, that must send you up the wall. I thought we were at war with the all evil fraction in order to bring about the holy utopia that requires all decimals.

In reloading Imperial will never die. Even many metric users in daily life in metric countries still reload using Imperial. And why not, we don't use drams anymore for weight, we dont' measure cases by inch and a quarter anymore. Case dimensions are done in thousandths of an inch, a fine decimalized system that works extremely well, as well as any Metric system can offer. We measure all weights in grains, which is also decimalized. Imperial has decimalized itself very well in this field and therefore is not desperate to be "saved" by metric.

Also in this case we see the potential dangers of trying to force conversion. Old reloading manuals with certain relevant loads to be used today are in Imperial, books and loads used by people all over the world. Modern American reloading still uses imperial with no end in sight, and this vast wealth of reloading material and loads supplies the rest of the world in their reloading efforts, to great effect mind you. At this point forcing more metric into reloading is not only worthless its potentially dangerous for the amateaur reloader potentially mixing up grams of this for grains of that. All it adds is confusion and danger.

I understand and support the move for science to move towards Metric for scientific purposes. However the war against imperial in daily use is just mindless retarded idealism and a hollow angry campaign, if not a total crusade of jihad for the sake of ideological purity. Leave the people who use it in their daily lives and find it superior than metric to do so, its not hurting science or you or anyone else. The real reason Imperial wont' die is because now that there are only two official measurement systems its just easy enough to translate one measurement into the other, their really is no problem left to fight over or solve. Your day has come and gone, you are now the fringe lunatics screaming autistically into the night sky at the moon.

When there were 10,000 systems there was a very real need for standardization. Now that there are only two, and you have won in every way that ACTUALLY MATTERED, there is no need for your crusade any longer. You are now just a braying jackass making troubles. Just go home.

>>599143

Nigger, my mother complains all the time about cookbooks using fucking cups and shots instead of mililitres. Imperial sucks cock. Also that whole post Is retarded, dont search for miniscule problems noone experiences IRL.

>>599170

The only reason why we still use imperial in gun loads is, because you have thé biggest gun culture and are the main creators of all different cartridge loads. We just use it, because it is more comfortable to leave it be than to change it.

>>599170

I sometimes use the length of my erect penis as a unit of measurement. For example, a 2 foot long wooden plank is 2 dick units [DU]

>>599143

> If I say it's 24 and an eighth Celsius, even in metric countries you have to think about it for a second to understand the approximate heat because the only material concept the metric system has is anything above 30C is "hot" and anything below 15C is "cold." Anything inbetween 15C and 30C has to be calculated in one's head.

Translation: Because I can't intuit metric, nobody can. Anyone who's ever actually used Celsius will intuitively know the difference between, say, a room being 20C vs 21C.

Also who would ever describe temperature to "an eighth of a degree"? Aside from an Imperialfag trying to justify his shit system, that is.

>Thermostats have to be adjusted within a tenth of a degree instead of "68 and below is a cool house, 70 and above is a warm house" as with Fahrenheit.

So you deride a hot/cold split for Celsius and then praise it as a virtue for Fahrenheit? And you're wrong on the thermostat; they tend to be increments of 0.5 degrees.

>When comparing heights/lengths, the average person is forced into either the centimeter scale with small objects or the meter scale with human-sized objects or larger.

There's no issue at all with using centimetres for heights, and it makes a hell of a lot more sense than having to mix units every time.

> If I say "roughly 236.6 ml" we're working with chemistry at that point

No shit, because what daily application requires enough precision for a tenth of a millilitre to still be "roughly"? If you're cooking then "250mL" is the non-strawman equivalent of a "cup".

>Even in science, in the fields of astronomy and thermodynamics the "imperial" system is superior because most of astronomy and thermodynamics work on a base 3, base 4, or base 6 scale which is easily translatable as fractions in the imperial system.

Nothing about this sentence makes any sense. Nobody uses base 3, 4, or 6, and that has nothing to do with you measurement system. And metric can be written just as easily as a fraction as Imperial; the only "benefit' imperial offers is that you can split a foot into inches, which is a fucking awful idea because now you have multiple units to deal with instead of just one.

>In the metric system, you can't "fractionate" these sorts of things and are forced to rely on decimals which are abstract.

You wouldn't fractionate anyway because fractions are an exact representation. Decimals convey the limit of the precision at a glance as well as the actual value. Is 2 1/4 supposed to be 2.5, or 2.5000000? Who knows. Even if science used inches everything would still be expressed in decimals instead of fractions.

>>599200

wrong again leaf

>>599205

>about to mock you for not knowing significant figures

>you were actually just pointing out a typo

That was close.

>>599206

Anon, if you had typed

>is 2 1/2 supposed to be 2.5 or 2.5000000?

you'd still be retarded since those two are equivalent. If you had asked something like

>is 13/11 1.182 or 1.18181818?

you'd have a point.

>>599206

wrong again leaf

>>599208

>since those two are equivalent

So you really don't understand significant figures after all.

Those have the same value but they are not equivalent. The number of trailing zeros carries information about the precision of the measurement.

A measurement of 2 1/2 must rounded at some level, since every measurement has at least some uncertainty. But writing it that way carries no information about how precise the rounding is.

Whereas a decimal does. 2.5 could really be 2.503, but 2.5000 couldn't be.

>>599211

wrong again leaf

>>599211

Ah yes, the everyday situation of needing an accurate measurement to the third or fourth decimal place.

>>599215

But that was when the Burger was talking about "even in the case of science".

>>599217

wrong again leaf

Burgers cling to imperial because they think that it makes them speshul when they know an encryption cipher that majority of normal people don't understand.

In reality, everyone whoever nonstop uses some weird encoded shit, those are people you don't talk much to. If your brain has developd in normal conditions, it would easily adopt metric for anything, as everything uses logical 10 base measurements.

Example: in Poland, shops use "deka" scale which is 10 grams. I never heard about it, I went to shop, asked how much that piece of meat weighs, I've been told it weighs 30 deka. Time needed to understand a "new" system under the same 10 base - 1 second (based 10 base, just remove 1 zero). Doing this shit with "one and three eights of a pound", time wasted: Infinity (What's a pound? Aha, OK, roughly half a kilo, but a little less, about 10 percent, and three eighths, OK, 450 divided by eight is about 55 grams or so, so total is roughly 600 grams, no, that's not the amount I need, starting over)

>>598866

>>598873

>those flags

>those posts

Hmmm

>>599257

What is going on I am confuse

>>599255

wrong again polecat

>>599258

Misunderstood your post completely, brb killing meself.

>>599143

Ah, no. Everything you just said is wrong, you're just suffering from brain damage caused by american "education" system.

>>599291

>brain damage

>Finland

Yeah tell us how that migrant situation is working out. :^)

>>599266

Nuuu ;_;

>>599291

wrong again depressed snowman

Does anyone else smell that? It smells like severe autism.

Oh, nevermind, it was just the burger.

>>599143

My favorite is the inch. Literally it’s the width of your thumb at its widest point, more or less.

Six feet it’s pretty much your arms spread out wide.

These measurements are exclusively non-manlet, which I can only reason that eurocucks decided on metric instead.

>>600877

I just love how half the Euros responding to me ignored the part where I said "metric is great for science that uses base 10" or the whole "metric is for fine-tuned measurements whereas imperial is for everyday use." Or how they have no argument so they scream about it being a "special system" or insult my IQ like commie swine.

>>599143

TL;DR: I understand imperial the best because it's what I use most

Same thing applies to metric. Some random anon uses it as a kid and grows up like that? Imperial is going to be unusable, much like metric is unusable for you. Working with numbers professionally? I will take metric any day of the week over imperial even though I can work in both easily mechanical engineer IRL. Why? EVERYTHING in metric is base 10, which makes working with numbers easier than imperial.

Also, in a professional setting where I need to rely on my numbers? I don't give a flying fuck about "it just makes sense day to day if you think about it". If I make a value judgement on something I can't go "hurr common sense" because that's a one way ticket to negligence and jail time to go with the deaths that would go with it.

>>600886

What I hear you saying, is sometimes you just need to do the math, and that has nothing to do with knowing what those numbers mean

But come to it, you can calculate imperial in base 10, have a 'feel' for where the obvious mistakes are, and if you like, convert decimal back to fractions. There are charts for that, and if you're afraid someone will try to proof your work using your approximated fractions, just list the decimal too, with fractions as the "name" of that specifc, correct decimal number.

I agree with the other anon, that imperial is easier to intuit if it's your initial system, than metric is for those who have that as their initial system.

>>599143

>Anything inbetween 15C and 30C has to be calculated in one's head.

Only if your "default reference" is Fahrenshit.

>>599143

>When comparing heights/lengths, the average person is forced into either the centimeter scale with small objects or the meter scale with human-sized objects or larger.

Ever heard of the decimeter? There's a decimal in between 1.0 and 0.01!

>>599182

>liters

>not cubic decimeters

>mililitres

>not cubic centimeters

Absolutely plebeian!

For brainlets, 1 foot ~= 3.012 decimeters or 30.12 centimeters.

>>599143

>i grew up with this system therefore that other one is hard to understand

Just realize that everyone who grew up with metric feels exactly as comfy as you about it and as lost with imperial. But in metric there is consistent number base so conversions between units are always trivial: You just move the decimal point and/or add zeros.

>how many inches in a mile?

>how many centimeters in a kilometer?

I bet you can answer the second faster even if you grew up with Imperial.

>>599165

Well that's retarded. All the shit at the store will still be labeled in Imperial so you'll be fucked. At least nowadays they usually label in both systems, I think that's the real way to kill off Imperial for good. As soon as some burgerlings (or would that be sliders?) say "lel everything is labeled in metric too so I'm just going to never learn inches and feet", metric will become the de facto standard in stores. Once those kids grow up and start applying for driver's licenses, the DMV will allow providing height/weight in metric (to much whining from cops) and that will be that.

>>599255

>In reality, everyone whoever nonstop uses some weird encoded shit, those are people you don't talk much to.

Well, unless those people have something you can't get anywhere else. Witness people clinging to Windows because muh gaymes.

>>600905

Well, the one thing you can say for F vs. C is that 100 for body temp is arguably easier to remember than 37. Too bad the retard measured it wrong so body temp is actually 98.7 F, and it's canceled out anyway because 0C for freezing and 100C for boiling is easier than 32F and 212F.

>>600953

Both of you are faggots.