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[โ€“] kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

One of the many failures of American public education system that I was subjected to. It's speaks volumes about how normalized exceptionalism is in this country.

"Oh, the measurement standard the rest of the world uses? You don't need to learn that. You're an American, so people from other countries will just accomodate you because they want to be like us."

[โ€“] HarneyToker@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

We actually use both. Imperial is easier to break into 3rds, but can still break down into other bases easily without any irrational numbers. Metric is more useful for science, but my mom who does landscaping prefers Imperial for her designs because itโ€™s not stuck in base-10.

Europeans are the ones who refuse to learn more than one system lol

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