[Reverend Wright]

Why can’t those metric people be satisfied with a real ton? And a mile?

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Because they are Progressives. They are constantly fiddling with things that work perfectly fine.

They do it because it is a power grab. A dispute over something as insignificant as weights and measures can be turned into an opportunity to rule.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

The answer used to be:
Tons to lbs-> multiply by 2,204.62262
Metric tons to KG-> move the decimal 3 digits to the right
But modern systems can do either operation instantly.