For daily, human use, YES!
Metric is good for a lot of technical and science stuff.
My biggest contention is that base 10 has some reeeeeally annoying limitations and base 12 lends itself to genuine day to day use, as a bare minimum.
But, we should all get with the base 60 program as it is vastly superior and why it has worked for time since the Assyrians/Babylonians.
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Those aren't bases though. Bases would be where you have one symbol for each digit up to that point.
Base 12: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b, then "10" is the number twelve.
Also, Fahrenheit simply makes no sense for anything. And the USA went "metric" regarding dollars and cents a long time during which Britain was using 12 pennies to a shilling, 20 shillings to a pound etc
That is how those counting systems are commonly referred to. 🤷♂️
I'd actually prefer the old British money system, in many ways.
And, IIRC, the old base 60 systems were actually base 60.
The biggest issue is the lack of whole number thirds and quarters.
if ya say so @The Beave


I do. Obviously. 🤣
I don't know about most Americans, but
.. Base ten is actually too simple to be useful when building stuff geometrically or proportionally. There are, simply, not enough whole number fractional divisions for VERY useful proportion.
One third of ten is practically impossible. Even a quarter of ten is less helpful. Fifths are fine for some things but much less useful for weights and measures.