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[–] survivalmachine@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a common misconception. Europeans hate standard measurements, but they aren't dumb. They can do conversions.

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

fair enough but we don't really have a feel for how far a mile is without converting it to kilometres first

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

We don't have to, because we don't live in the 3 countries that use them.