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Why would Boris Johnson want to bring back imperial units?
Science Weekly
How Does Having Control Over Units of Measurement Give Someone Power?
The patron pon kusma is a unit of measurement roughly equivalent to six miles. The poltron consumer is basically how long it takes for a rain dear to walk before they need to go for a little lubrak. And an old irish unit called the collop, uh, which is the amount of land needed to graze a single cow. It's a unit that incos ods information about the world. We have this deep connection between political sort and defining units of measurement.
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