Well, I'm American, so I generally use our system.

However, as I get into higher levels of science, I find myself using the metric system more and more, even in everyday life. So, I guess I use a mixture, although if forced to chose I use the American system more.

Spanish (or Spanglish, or Mexican/Cuban/etc.) is nearly as prevalent if not a majority over English in some places.

I wouldn't go quite that far. I live very close to the Mexican border and although most (if not all) people around here are Bi-Lingual, native English speakers/white people definitely dominate. There are tons of Mexicans though, compared to other places.

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I grew up with US system so that's what I think in, but I prefer the metric system. It's so much easier when doing math.

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Metric is far, far superior. In fact, there's no rational reason to use anything else other than pure stubbornness. It's really quite infuriating, but what else would you expect from a country that makes a point of only speaking one language?

Last I looked, the USA still doesn't have an official language, and Spanish (or Spanglish, or Mexican/Cuban/etc.) is nearly as prevalent if not a majority over English in some places.

Yeah, I'd hardly say the US is English centric. Mostly everything is translated into Spanish, and occasionally even French. Even the bus announcement are said and written in English and Spanish. I mean, in school (or at least in my school,) you couldn't graduate without taking a second language class. So I can't see how that is making a point of only speaking one language.

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raised on metric
learned US
like metric better

Grew up with the Imperial (US) measurement system so that's what I think in. Metric certainly makes more sense but I have to convert everything because I have very little feel for how big the metric measurements are. If the US switched over...I wouldn't fight it, but I bet I'd end up cursing a lot. 🤣

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I grew up with US system so that's what I think in, but I prefer the metric system. It's so much easier when doing math.

2nding this. I remember taking technical drawing in high school and wanting to scream at all the conversions.

I'm thankful my professors mostly keep to metric units, 'cause I'd probably lose my mind if I had to juggle 'em. My thermodynamics class alternated between the two all the time and it was somewhat maddening to realize that numbers were horribly wrong 'cause I used the metric constant when the units were imperial.

.I wouldn't fight it, but I bet I'd end up cursing a lot.

You get used to it pretty fast 'cause of the approximations. Though currently there's no plan to switch 'cause of the costs.

Total and utter mixture.
Temperature in Celsius, travel in miles.
Fairly comfortable with both imperial and metric for small distances, though height and weight in imperial.
Cooking measurements are dependent on the age of the recipe. Most liquids in pints - 100ml means nothing to me.
Metric for any science stuff.

It's just the strange mixture I've grown up with.

Since I live in the US the first option is more convenient, but I wish we would switch to metric. Metric makes more sense. It's better organized.

I'm technically a scientist so I go for S.I. units but then I'm a chemical engineer and I have to use retarded units because the readings from instruments are old and still giving annoying units that I have to convert. wtf would you want me to convert lbf (pound force) when you could just use a normal fucking newton meter, screw you!

Other units I hate,
°F
Btu
lbf/ft^2 + lbf/in^2
mph

The sad thing is I actually know all these conversions now T-T

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I live in the United States, and was an Engineering major in college for a good period of time, so by default, it's a mix of both.

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Metric.
I was raised with it, and it makes so much more sense.

Metric.
I find it less senseless.
It makes more sense to me for
one metre to be a 100 cm/10 dm/1000 mm etc.
than a foot to be 12 inches. 12!? Why not 10?

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than a foot to be 12 inches. 12!? Why not 10?

Here's why.

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than a foot to be 12 inches. 12!? Why not 10?

Here's why.

What the fuck, that makes it even more inane. ._.

Well, I said English units, but I suppose my soda is in liters. Anyway, to whoever said using not-metric was stubborn, the problem is that we're too big AND too stubborn. If we were just stubborn we would have given up by now.