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measuring rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 11 months ago (4 children)

USA's measurment system dosn't make any senses.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Shut up. If you don't know how many buckets there are to a hogshead, that's not our fault.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Smartest statesian

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

That's medieval units for you. At least they use the same units in the whole country, which is progress compared to how it used to be in the rest of the medieval world. They just didn't take the last step to modernity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's not even our system. We adopted the system of our oppressors that kept it long after they abandoned it.

Imperial is not American, some might call it unAmerican

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yeo but you decided to kept it