• DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world
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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.