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The battle of the standards: why the US and UK can’t stop fighting the metric system

A cartoon animation showing a signpost with arms labeled with units in “kilometers.” A saw is slowly cutting a circle around the base of the signpost, Looney Toons style.
Ben Hickey / The Verge

Metric units have conquered the globe, but in the US and the UK, their presence has become part of a culture war between ‘traditional’ and ‘progressive’ values.

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