Jimmy Carter tried to mandate that we learn the metric system when I was in 5th grade. It lasted about a month before the administrators reported back to him…”yeah, nah, this shit ain’t gonna flush, Mr. President. Not with these kids.”
AlarmedSnek on
Freedom units….also, many professions do use the metric system so they have to learn and understand both.
j_p4_11 on
WOW
chinesiumjunk on
How about those metric ratchets 😂
Lanky_Information825 on
Just a few scragglers lol
Army_24_7_365 on
I am certain that US military use metric in some branches
GundamMaker on
“Every single nation on the earth except the U.S., Liberia, and Burma.” — Lana Kane
El_Mariachi_Vive on
It isn’t done because this country (I live in USA) is enormous, has a huge population, and therefore would be astronomically expensive.
Road signs. Packaging. Containers. Everything from IT to textiles to culinary. Recipes have to be rewritten. Whole machines have to be invented to accomodate for the new measures.
Imagine it’s your job to change *EVERYTHING* about the USA to metric. Where would you begin? Education? Sure that’s all well and good, but we already learn some metric in school. Any STEM college students end up learning metric fully, inside and out.
It’s a logistical nightmare, but why consider this when it’s easier to say “hahaha Americans dumb”.
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Jimmy Carter tried to mandate that we learn the metric system when I was in 5th grade. It lasted about a month before the administrators reported back to him…”yeah, nah, this shit ain’t gonna flush, Mr. President. Not with these kids.”
Freedom units….also, many professions do use the metric system so they have to learn and understand both.
WOW
How about those metric ratchets 😂
Just a few scragglers lol
I am certain that US military use metric in some branches
“Every single nation on the earth except the U.S., Liberia, and Burma.” — Lana Kane
It isn’t done because this country (I live in USA) is enormous, has a huge population, and therefore would be astronomically expensive.
Road signs. Packaging. Containers. Everything from IT to textiles to culinary. Recipes have to be rewritten. Whole machines have to be invented to accomodate for the new measures.
Imagine it’s your job to change *EVERYTHING* about the USA to metric. Where would you begin? Education? Sure that’s all well and good, but we already learn some metric in school. Any STEM college students end up learning metric fully, inside and out.
It’s a logistical nightmare, but why consider this when it’s easier to say “hahaha Americans dumb”.
myanmar and liberia for those wondering