• CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You do realize asshole Republicans reverted before it could be more than implemented on a couple of highways

    “Metric supporters argued the road signs were a crucial step in helping Americans get over any psychological blocks to switching measurement systems. But Republican Charles Grassley, then a congressman and now a senator from Iowa, killed proposed federal regulations that would have forced states to put up signs in kilometers.”

    They literally locked putting up signs in both metric an Imperial

    Also… remember my comment about old fucks raised on gas lead fumes…. Yea, the 70s……

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      1 year ago

      Given that the 70’s was 50 years ago, most people don’t know the details of what happened. Other than a metric conversion was attempted.

      It’s both surprising and not that it was killed by republicans. And given the current nationalist furor in the party, it doesn’t have a snow ball’s chance in hell of happening in the next decade. If it was proposed, again.