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[-] survivalmachine@beehaw.org 10 points 10 months ago

That's a common misconception. Europeans hate standard measurements, but they aren't dumb. They can do conversions.

[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 10 months ago

fair enough but we don't really have a feel for how far a mile is without converting it to kilometres first

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 14 points 10 months ago

We don't have to, because we don't live in the 3 countries that use them.

[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

we live on the internet that uses it a lot though

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