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Spectre@Confidant6198@lemmy.ml
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Why is the USA the only country who doesn’t use the metric system?

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grandel@grandel@lemmy.ml
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Maybe because it works? It ain’t a good system, but changes like this affect a lot of different areas and would cause a lot of disruption.

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Maeve@Maeve@kbin.earth
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It could be solved by teaching an incoming generation both units, teaching conversion, and printing both units on packaging, speed limit signs, etc, until that generation's children start school, then phasing out the printing of both units.

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JustPlainDave@JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip
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We’ve been doing that for decades.

⁨Sep⁩ ⁨15⁩, ⁨2026⁩, ⁨11:45⁩
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