I agree that imperial units are silly and we should probably run on metric for lots of practical reason. But you gotta admit that they're a fun discussion prompt for trivia; everybody thinks there's an internal logic but it's just all weird history! For example nobody's gonna believe that it's just a weird coincidence that a Zacharia is slightly *less* than half of a Scaramucci
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The counterargument for keeping Imperial (and to be clear, I'm *extremely* pro-Metric) is that the surviving units tend to be of handy sizes for doing day-to-day stuff and can easily be defined in terms of their metric counterparts and converted between them with low-precision FP arithmetic.