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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago

The relentless muddling of metric with imperial measurements is not only bewildering but an absolute affront to rationality.

When dealing with the critical precision of LD-50 values, why persist with this nonsensical jumble instead of adopting the metric system entirely?

The table's careless presentation of 'gms/Kg' without specifying units in each entry is a grotesque oversight.

Is this some cruel American prank designed to torment and confuse the rest of the world?