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Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug... by onion2k on Friday April 21, 2023 @08:49AM (#35652914)
Ah yes, the endless march to turn humanity into a singular blob of consistent units of nature, under a banner of the opposite.

The entire world uses metric units apart from America, Libya and Myanmar. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries...

What I absolutely love about this fact is that America is still using British Imperial units. After literally having a war over whether or not the US should be independent of British rule, you're still holding on to our measuring system despite the rest of the world moving on.

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Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug... by saalweachter on Friday April 21, 2023 @10:52AM (#35654669)
They aren't British Imperial units. They're US customary units.

They were standardized separately, and vary slightly to considerably from the British Imperial counterparts.

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