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Just like in 1975... time to try again? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_Conversion_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_Conversion_Act
by Tempest1981 5y ago
Just like in 1975... time to try again?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_Conversion_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_Conversion_Act
- spaetzleesser 5y agoI can't believe that there were people who actively worked on killing this effort and actually succeeded. Talk about stupidly reactionary. In general it seems US public policy has suffered since the 70s. There were things like serious efforts for universal health care or metric conversion. These days it's not even imaginable to make a big change in the country.
- Workaccount2 5y agoI work with people like that. They don't like metric simply because it would be something new to learn.
- suranyami 5y agoAlso… just like in 1875… time to try again again? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre_Convention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre_Convention > The Metre Convention (French: Convention du Mètre), also known as the Treaty of the Metre,[1] is an international treaty that was signed in Paris on 20 May 1875 by representatives of 17 nations (Argentina, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Peru, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden and Norway, Switzerland, Ottoman Empire, United States of America, and Venezuela).
- divbzero 5y agoAt this rate we’ll try again in another 53 years?