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Re:International System of Units overhauled in historic vote by DanBC on Saturday November 17, 2018 @12:15PM (#18476366)
> whereas people do not have any idea how much '300ml' is.

No, you get a sense of this if you live somewhere that uses ml for things.

One can of soda is 330 ml.

Re:International System of Units overhauled in historic vote by sonnyblarney on Monday November 19, 2018 @03:40AM (#18484933)
I live in Canada we use ml and nobody orders beer in ml.

5 grams of sugar? Nobody knows what that means.

They know what 5 tea-spoons is though.

I'll be $100 that if they put 'teaspoons of sugar' instead of grams, people would be shocked. There are videos showing how much sugar in a can of Coke, and it's largely because people are oblivious to the units on the label, which we can all technically read.