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[–] rayyy@piefed.social 22 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

The US could have switched to the world-wide standard years ago but under Reagan the switch was abandoned.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 18 points 13 hours ago

No, the original “Make America Great Again” guy? The first actor elected President who presided over an unprecedented health crisis and ignored it because he hoped it would only hurt the “right” people, and plunged America into an economic disaster the likes of which we are still feeling today and may never recover from? That guy?

God this place actually sucks

[–] CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world 10 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

We could have had it as early as 1793, but the ship carrying the metric standards was attacked by pirates.

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

Those patriots dumped the metric system into Boston harbor, take that brits