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[โ€“] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Everyone focuses on why learning metric would be better in the first place, and they're right. No one has come up with a good argument for me to throw away all of my measuring tools, convert all my recipes and relearn an entirely new system when the system and stuff I have works for me now.

[โ€“] ephemerality@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This attitude is exactly WHY the US failed to actually convert back in the 70s

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