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Laziness, stupidity, and egotism are why the United States doesn't use the metric system
Wednesday December 7, 2022. 05:53 PM , from BoingBoing
I've always thought 'how we measure' in the United States was a public demonstration that systems of measure and even time were just constructs of consciousness we did not understand and should be incomprehensible and intentionally hard to remember. How else do we explain quarts, ounces, teaspoons, and cords of wood? — Read the rest
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