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[-] Haphazard9479@lemm.ee -3 points 1 year ago

There would be mass confusion if the US went metric.

[-] Dasnap@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Seemed to work fine everywhere else.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

There’s mass confusion now. It’s why industry by industry is voluntarily metricating. Most famously American aerospace used US Customary until a conversion error crashed a Mars mission.

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