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minus-squareBearOfaTime@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-25 hours agoHell, I’m old enough to be a parent/grandparent to most of Lemmy, and I learned metric over 40 years ago…in a small rural US grade school. Guess what - back then the UK still hadn’t fully settled on metric, they didn’t “fully” convert until the mid-80’s if I remember right. And they still use feet, mph, stone, etc, as they choose. This whole metric arrogance thing is tiresome (and I vastly prefer it for many things, because of Base 10, so really it’s a Base 10 preference).
Hell, I’m old enough to be a parent/grandparent to most of Lemmy, and I learned metric over 40 years ago…in a small rural US grade school.
Guess what - back then the UK still hadn’t fully settled on metric, they didn’t “fully” convert until the mid-80’s if I remember right.
And they still use feet, mph, stone, etc, as they choose.
This whole metric arrogance thing is tiresome (and I vastly prefer it for many things, because of Base 10, so really it’s a Base 10 preference).