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I think you mean complaining about metrication 50 years later :-) The counterpoint is that without the metric system how could we make snarky comments on US-ba
by jmkd 8mo ago
I think you mean complaining about metrication 50 years later :-)
The counterpoint is that without the metric system how could we make snarky comments on US-based woodworking videos?
- xnorswap 8mo agoI was specifically thinking of the "Metric Martyrs" who were jailed over refusing to display weights and measures in metric. The law requiring metric didn't actually come into force until 2000, these cases were early 2000s. Note that the law to this day still allows for imperial measurements to also be displayed, but they wanted to display in solely imperial. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_Martyrs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_Martyrs The situation another 20 years later is rosier, even the boomers have spent most their adulthood with metric, and they're dying off now.