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> the standards are there, wishing they didn't exist doesn't invalidate them

If people act like a standard doesn't exist, then the standard actually doesn't exist, because that's the only thing that defines a standard.



Most people in the US use imperial unit, it doesn't mean metric doesn't exist.

Standards are not absolutes.




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