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I actually agree that the metric system has nice round numbers, but this graphic is a hilarious rebuttal to the first one that just draws pictures to make their preferred system look like it fits into the pretty pictures.
Two can play at that game, lol.
Eh.. The graph shows
"Inches in 8.33 feet", and those 3's will go on forever like 8.333333333333..
Its clearly meant to be a shitpost.
It's actually interesting, an inch is the last knuckle of your thumb, a foot is your foot, a yard is one pace (left right left) a mile is 1000 paces
But for some reason when we standardized them so everyone's mile would be the same distance, we used a freaking giant.
Then pirates kept us from adopting the metric system