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[–] [email protected] 77 points 17 hours ago (14 children)

The lengths Americans will go to in order not to use the metric system is insane.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 16 hours ago (11 children)

I am interested in learning about this metric time.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

metric time actually was a thing, and it sucked so nobody used it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

It didn't suck exactly, time is just so much more prevalent than other units that switching to a new system was even more contentious. Current time is just as arbitrary (although maximizing for maximum number of prime factors is pretty nice, even if it doesn't mesh nicely with other metric units)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Metric really missed out by not being dozenal. SMH

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