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  • CIA_chatbot@lemmy.worldtoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•A metric tonne (1000 kg) should be called a megagram (1 Mg).English
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    11 months ago

    You do realize asshole Republicans reverted before it could be more than implemented on a couple of highways

    “Metric supporters argued the road signs were a crucial step in helping Americans get over any psychological blocks to switching measurement systems. But Republican Charles Grassley, then a congressman and now a senator from Iowa, killed proposed federal regulations that would have forced states to put up signs in kilometers.”

    They literally locked putting up signs in both metric an Imperial

    Also… remember my comment about old fucks raised on gas lead fumes…. Yea, the 70s……

  • CIA_chatbot@lemmy.worldtoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•A metric tonne (1000 kg) should be called a megagram (1 Mg).English
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    11 months ago

    Lol, that sounds very much “as a black man”

    I’ll tell you, most of us in the states would love a total switch to metric. We use it where is matters most, but we also have an aging population raised on lead has fumes that think anything they don’t know is “communism” or “wholeness” or whatever else the propaganda right spews. Those are the assholes that pretty much stop progress on anything.

    I’m big into 3D printing, actually got into the same argument with another 3D printing guy…. And I’m like, literally EVERYTHING we do is in metric. The whole damn hobby is metric.

    I hate humanity