• uralsolo [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    a kilometre is a trivially visualized distance

    Only when you’ve gotten used to it. The thing with your examples is that very rarely does anyone actually need a kilofoot or 1/100th of a foot, but they very, very frequently need a mile or an inch. Metric was designed to make sense on paper, standard measurements were designed to be useful in every day situations.