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> UK uses miles for distance, stones for weight, and I'm pretty certain that many things in the US are measured using metric.

UK is the same bad example of choosing using units of measure as US is.

> I certainly don't complain when someone uses a celsius temperature

because you shouldnt? it is a world standard.

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Axios is a US centric media company, so why would you expect them to not use US centric notation? I realize some people have trouble doing the conversion in their head, but most kids in the US learn the formula in grade school, it isn't a big deal. Plus you can just google it.

> UK is the same bad example of choosing using units of measure as US is.

The US at least tried to use the metric system.

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