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[-] FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 37 points 8 months ago

Nah, the brits have it even worse, I don't think even they know what system they use. Like the US just uses the imperial system but brits use like every system randomly plus some stuff that no one else uses, like boulders or some caveman shit like that.

Also brits got like nothing left to make fun of at this point: They fucked their healthcare system bad enough they may as well be in the US, they got 2 viable parties that are even more the same than the US and they left the one thing that kept the country economically relevant to name a few things.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 11 points 8 months ago

The US is officially metric, they signed the metre convention 149 years ago

[-] pissedatyall@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 8 months ago

Within the US government it’s still all metric measures, has been since Carter, but Reagan made a social cause and used it against the Dems (along with a secret “guns for hostages” negotiation) to win the presidency. And it’s been downhill ever since.

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