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[โ€“] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 13 points 1 month ago (18 children)

Which units are best doesn't matter: the point is, nobody else uses standard units anymore, apart from a couple oddball countries, and only one of them - North Korea - isn't trying to extricate itself from it.

Everybody else tries to be a part of the world's technical and scientific communities by speaking the same language, but of course America has to be different. Because of course it does... And it's tiring if you ask me.

[โ€“] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

US scientists also use metric.

[โ€“] Rothe@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

US scientists are a very tiny minority of Americans, and getting tinier day by day.

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