• emb@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Hard to say it’s not getting enough attention - there are a lot of serious problems going on in the world today, that people are justified in making noise about.

    But one of my pet issues is the switch to the metric system in the US. Why are we not working towards this? It was standardized decades ago. Should be uncontroversial to deprecate imperial, even though it obviously can’t happen overnight.

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      7 hours ago

      The worst is that a lot of professions will use metric even in the US. So you spend your childhood learning this fucking crazy imperial and go to become a doctor and have to relearn a lot of metric stuff