[stiglitz]

A much better article on this topic: https://www.nist.gov/pml/us-surveyfoot

nytimes slogs through boring narrative before describing the actual definitions of the two types of foot.

[moistly]

> Since 1893, the legal definition of the foot in the United States has been based on the meter.

Imagine all the pain we’d have saved just switching to metric back then, back in eighteen ninety-three. Sticking to imperial measures is an anachronistic cultural third rail, not a rational decision.

[Epiphany21]

That one has a better title, too. I wandered in here thinking America had diabetes or something.