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[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 48 points 11 months ago

FYI: The US doesn't use Imperial, they use US Customary. Volumes are different. Troy weights are usually called Troy (ounces).

[-] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago

Is that supposed to be better?

[-] ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 40 points 11 months ago

No it's worse, because they use the same names for different volumes and weights.

[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago

We needed extra room for all the freedom.

[-] Sabin10@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago
[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago
[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

"They hated him because he spoke the truth."

[-] dankm@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago

To be fair their ounces are larger..

[-] hughesdikus@lemmy.ml 9 points 11 months ago

A standard which is a "newer" version of an old standard, when a new objectively better standard already exists to replace it.

You tell me.

[-] bouh@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

It's like standard in computers. It's not meant to be better, it's meant to imprison the user with the company tools.

[-] hughesdikus@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

Except a country doesnt need anything like that. What is the US afraid of? That its people will suddenly move to Zimbabwe and be happy?

If there was a genuine benefit to having different standards than rest of the world, then just like wars, more countries would be having them

US has had millions, if not billions of dollars of losses due to this madness and has itself tried switching to metric system.

The fact the imperial system itself is now based on the metric system tells you enough

[-] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

Well it depends. Open standards are created to hopefully catch on by multiple manufacturers and make the interoperability better to make it easier for both consumers and manufacturers.

Proprietary standards are just simply to lock you into their ecosystem.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Just more confusing!

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