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Thanks for that link! Seems to outline that there has been many attempts, some still ongoing, but not making a lot of progress. Seems weird to fault all of the

Thanks for that link! Seems to outline that there has been many attempts, some still ongoing, but not making a lot of progress. Seems weird to fault all of these failed attempts to the Reagan administration, but I guess that's also an American thing to do, attribute issues to one group of people, not the one you're in, but "the other group".

rovr138 6y ago
> but not making a lot of progress That part reminded me of Puerto Rico. Streets are marked with kilometer markers, rural addresses are street and km and hectometers. Also everyone miles for everything else. I’m actually not sure which conversion failed.
- rdl 6y ago
  And land is measured in "spanish acres" as well (Cuerda).
  - tomjakubowski 6y ago
    And two different scales of magnitudes (US-style "short scale", and "long scale" from Spanish colonial days), meaning two different meanings for millions and billions! https://metricpioneer.wordpress.com/2014/01/05/long-scale-and-short-scale-how-much-is-a-billion-it-depends-where-you-live/ https://metricpioneer.wordpress.com/2014/01/05/long-scale-an...
    - rovr138 6y ago
      And not a small difference! And people misuse it all the time.
  - rovr138 6y ago
    We have a bit of a mess back home