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Re:Ending the Era of the U.S. Survey Foot by thrower123 on Friday January 31, 2020 @07:18PM (#22207406)
Some metric units work well, and are scaled to human everyday measurements, and some are not.
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Re:Ending the Era of the U.S. Survey Foot by beerandt on Friday January 31, 2020 @09:30PM (#22208186)
But the time thing goes to show the absurdity of people's frame of reference. The same people that judgingly ask why the US hasn't gone full metric will say how absurd the idea of base 10 time is.
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