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I'm an American who designs PCBs in millimeters instead of thousandths of an inch. I'm doing my part.
Military, most manufacturing is metric only thing that's not metric are street signs, building trades and anything else the redcaps interact with daily.
Except American aerospace.
After we lost that one expensive spacecraft we've been moving towards metric more and more there as well.