• captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    It gets worse because we also use metric depending on what it’s used in, such as bicycles. As an American I really just wish we’d ditch the us measurement system in general, but especially when it comes to parts.

    • I'm Hiding 🇦🇺@aussie.zone
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      2 days ago

      Eh, I’m an Australian who works with old British machinery, so I’m used to thinking in Imperial too. You’ll never get away from it, not in our lifetimes.

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        2 days ago

        Yeah, but bit by bit we can make imperial obscure traditional knowledge only used in Myanmar and Liberia, unless they want in on this metric shit.

        Anyways I’m going to go patriotically metricate because it pisses everyone off when I say that my country’s founding fathers intended for us to use metric