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    From Björn Felten@2:203/2 to Wayne Harris on Wed Aug 19 05:49:22 2020
    But let's ask this. Must the population change their units because
    pilots might get things wrong? I'd think the pilots should change join the standard and let people drink their pint of beer.

    Good point. No, it's no longer a matter of life and death -- most people that matters know perfectly well that the US struggles to maintain their own measures.

    Nowadays it's much more a matter of global communications in the social community. Take for instance Youtube videos about cooking. When the "recipe" calls for Fahrenheit, Cups, Pounds, Ounces and whatever, it addresses less than 4% of the world -- and most of the up-loaders aren't even aware of this? They think that they are using global units?

    The Imperial System is the one thing that divides USA from the rest of the world. Ask yourself, who benefits from this? Follow the dollar...



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  • From Wayne Harris@2:221/6 to Michiel van der Vlist on Wed Aug 19 19:03:38 2020
    Hi, guys.

    Michiel van der Vlist - Björn Felten <0@5555.280.2> writes:

    Hello Björn,

    On Wednesday August 19 2020 05:49, you wrote to Wayne Harris:

    Nowadays it's much more a matter of global communications in the social community. Take for instance Youtube videos about cooking. When the "recipe" calls for Fahrenheit, Cups, Pounds, Ounces and whatever,
    it addresses less than 4% of the world -- and most of the up-loaders aren't even aware of this? They think that they are using global
    units?

    Good point.

    When I see a recipe using non-metric units, I just move on. I am of
    course capable of doing the conversion, but it is just not worth the
    effort. Recipes are not a scarce commodity, I can easely find one
    using metric units...

    Exactly. That's the market doing its job. (And don't worry if they'll
    do it right. If they do it wrong, they'll respond to the consequences,
    as it should be.)

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