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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Standard is alive and well in engineering and architecture. We have slugs as a unit. g is ~32ft/s^2 and buildings have feet.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I fucking hate the slug unit. Evil little bit of science.