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xkcd #3038: Uncanceled Units (xkcd.com)
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Edit: Alt Text: Speed limit c arcminutes^2 per steradian.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

My power company provides me electricity in kWh, and heating (in the form of hot water) in GJ. And my cold water gets charged in m3.

So they DO know. For a few years, they'd even "helpfully" translate the GJ into kWh, untill it started to piss off people who bought electric heaters and found that those two numbers weren't actually the same in the real world.