Relabeling is such a chore.
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abfarid@startrek.website 3 months ago
What was the point for this propaganda? To keep products incompatible somehow?
meliaesc@lemmy.world 3 months ago
RedEyeFlightControl@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Replacing all your tools and machines is super easy, though. /s
FWIW I only work in metric, SAE is utter trash, tbh.
MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Why don’t you want to measure things by parts of a twelfth of a Roman foot?
sparkle@lemm.ee 3 months ago
of an approximation of a Roman foot in metric*
The Roman foot was between approximately 0.96 and 0.99 British imperial/US customary feet. The modern foot is defined as exactly 0.3048 meters, by international agreement.
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
Well we already deal with a mixed system, so they could relabel where possible and just phase out any machines where not, and in the interim just hand out slide rules with conversions on them.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Capital owners that don’t want to retool for a bullshit reason like “common good”.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 months ago
It literally costs them more money to not use the global standards!
DogWater@lemmy.world 3 months ago
In the long run, maybe. short term is all that matters. And short term it costs money