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  1. Looking to boycott US based stuff?

    Start with the cultural imperialism: don't buy anything marked in gallons, feet, pounds etc. Even if it's dual marked.

    Send a message that it's time to stop bending the rest of the world to the desires of the USA.

    #BoycotUS #boycot #Imperialism #GoMetric #Canada #Australia

  2. Looking to boycott US based stuff?

    Start with the cultural imperialism: don't buy anything marked in gallons, feet, pounds etc. Even if it's dual marked.

    Send a message that it's time to stop bending the rest of the world to the desires of the USA.

    #BoycotUS #boycot #Imperialism #GoMetric #Canada #Australia

  3. Looking to boycott US based stuff?

    Start with the cultural imperialism: don't buy anything marked in gallons, feet, pounds etc. Even if it's dual marked.

    Send a message that it's time to stop bending the rest of the world to the desires of the USA.

    #BoycotUS #boycot #Imperialism #GoMetric #Canada #Australia

  4. Looking to boycott US based stuff?

    Start with the cultural imperialism: don't buy anything marked in gallons, feet, pounds etc. Even if it's dual marked.

    Send a message that it's time to stop bending the rest of the world to the desires of the USA.

    #BoycotUS #boycot #Imperialism #GoMetric #Canada #Australia

  5. Looking to boycott US based stuff?

    Start with the cultural imperialism: don't buy anything marked in gallons, feet, pounds etc. Even if it's dual marked.

    Send a message that it's time to stop bending the rest of the world to the desires of the USA.

    #BoycotUS #boycot #Imperialism #GoMetric #Canada #Australia

  6. Perhaps a way to get holdouts to accept the metric system would be to transitionally allow them to say unnecessarily complicated things like “12⅝ centimeters.”

    #GoMetric #MetricSystem

  7. Perhaps a way to get holdouts to accept the metric system would be to transitionally allow them to say unnecessarily complicated things like “12⅝ centimeters.”

    #GoMetric #MetricSystem

  8. Perhaps a way to get holdouts to accept the metric system would be to transitionally allow them to say unnecessarily complicated things like “12⅝ centimeters.”

  9. Perhaps a way to get holdouts to accept the metric system would be to transitionally allow them to say unnecessarily complicated things like “12⅝ centimeters.”

    #GoMetric #MetricSystem

  10. Perhaps a way to get holdouts to accept the metric system would be to transitionally allow them to say unnecessarily complicated things like “12⅝ centimeters.”

    #GoMetric #MetricSystem

  11. In the 70's, we learned both the Imperial and Metric Systems of Measurement and consequently are unfamiliar with either system.

    "The battle of the standards: why the US and UK can’t stop fighting the metric system"

    Metric units have conquered the globe, but in the US and the UK, their presence has become part of a culture war between ‘traditional’ and ‘progressive’ values.

    by @[email protected]

    theverge.com/2023/1/16/2350719

    #GoMetric #SellingEnglandByThePound #EU #MatterOfInches #UnitsOfMeasurement

  12. In the 70's, we learned both the Imperial and Metric Systems of Measurement and consequently are unfamiliar with either system.

    "The battle of the standards: why the US and UK can’t stop fighting the metric system"

    Metric units have conquered the globe, but in the US and the UK, their presence has become part of a culture war between ‘traditional’ and ‘progressive’ values.

    by @[email protected]

    theverge.com/2023/1/16/2350719

    #GoMetric #SellingEnglandByThePound #EU #MatterOfInches #UnitsOfMeasurement

  13. In the 70's, we learned both the Imperial and Metric Systems of Measurement and consequently are unfamiliar with either system.

    "The battle of the standards: why the US and UK can’t stop fighting the metric system"

    Metric units have conquered the globe, but in the US and the UK, their presence has become part of a culture war between ‘traditional’ and ‘progressive’ values.

    by @[email protected]

    theverge.com/2023/1/16/2350719

    #GoMetric #SellingEnglandByThePound #EU #MatterOfInches #UnitsOfMeasurement

  14. In the 70's, we learned both the Imperial and Metric Systems of Measurement and consequently are unfamiliar with either system.

    "The battle of the standards: why the US and UK can’t stop fighting the metric system"

    Metric units have conquered the globe, but in the US and the UK, their presence has become part of a culture war between ‘traditional’ and ‘progressive’ values.

    by @[email protected]

    theverge.com/2023/1/16/2350719

    #GoMetric #SellingEnglandByThePound #EU #MatterOfInches #UnitsOfMeasurement

  15. In the 70's, we learned both the Imperial and Metric Systems of Measurement and consequently are unfamiliar with either system.

    "The battle of the standards: why the US and UK can’t stop fighting the metric system"

    Metric units have conquered the globe, but in the US and the UK, their presence has become part of a culture war between ‘traditional’ and ‘progressive’ values.

    by @[email protected]

    theverge.com/2023/1/16/2350719

    #GoMetric #SellingEnglandByThePound #EU #MatterOfInches #UnitsOfMeasurement