Comment on What has he done to deserve this?

abfarid@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Capital owners that don’t want to retool for a bullshit reason like “common good”.

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It literally costs them more money to not use the global standards!

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    • DogWater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      In the long run, maybe. short term is all that matters. And short term it costs money

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• meliaesc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Relabeling is such a chore.

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  • RedEyeFlightControl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Replacing all your tools and machines is super easy, though. /s

    FWIW I only work in metric, SAE is utter trash, tbh.

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    • MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Why don’t you want to measure things by parts of a twelfth of a Roman foot?

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      • sparkle@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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