Hi, guys.

Michiel van der Vlist - Björn Felten  writes:

> Hello Björn,
>
> On Wednesday August 19 2020 05:49, you wrote to Wayne Harris:
>
>  BF>    Nowadays it's much more a matter of global communications in the
>  BF> social community. Take for instance Youtube videos about cooking. When
>  BF> the "recipe" calls for Fahrenheit, Cups, Pounds, Ounces and whatever,
>  BF> it addresses less than 4% of the world -- and most of the up-loaders
>  BF> aren't even aware of this? They think that they are using global
>  BF> units?
>
> Good point.
>
> When I see a recipe using non-metric units, I just move on. I am of
> course capable of doing the conversion, but it is just not worth the
> effort. Recipes are not a scarce commodity, I can easely find one
> using metric units...

Exactly.  That's the market doing its job.  (And don't worry if they'll
do it right.  If they do it wrong, they'll respond to the consequences,
as it should be.)

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