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[-] gazter@aussie.zone 7 points 1 year ago

It's not even a case of 'everywhere else', it's actually 'everywhere'.

It's just that some sections of that 'everywhere' take the metric system and add an abstraction on top of it.

The imperial system literally defines itself by the metric system.

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