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Re:Times New Roman is being phased out at the State Departme... by elzbardico on Thursday January 19, 2023 @02:18PM (#34444360)
I am not an American, but until a few years ago there was not much of a push to move to metric on things like tools and plumbing. A lot of the world used imperial for such things even if they were not former british colonies.
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Re:Times New Roman is being phased out at the State Departme... by garbagecoder on Thursday January 19, 2023 @06:35PM (#34447189)
I understood what you meant. I was just saying that your case is different since it wasn't necessarily that way for you the way it is for Americans.

There are many domains where imperial units have a nice human scale that makes sense, and then there are others where it is total trash and useless. I still fail to see what's so terrible about using both.

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