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		bediger4000 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Trump's Tariffs Wipe Out over $6T on Wall Street i... The USA may get the metric system out of this. The only reason the USA can hang on to its ridiculous "imperial" units has been its economically dominant position.

WrongAssumption 9 months ago [–]

Imperial units are British, and the United States doesn’t use the imperial system.

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