Re: Americans: that clueless cretin you elected just killed the CVE program :-(

In article <vu8ci1$dn28$1@dont-email.me>,
David Wade  <g4ugm@dave.invalid> wrote:

On 22/04/2025 15:54, Dan Cross wrote:

[snip]
Officially, the US is a metric country; we switched back in the
70s.  Of course, most working scientists and many engineers here
use it professionally.  But it's never been _implemented_ on a
large scale for day-to-day use, and I suspect if you tried now,
the MAGA crowd would throw another temper tantrum.  They're
still holding onto cursive for similar, antiquated reasons.

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One of the suggested benefits of Brexit was that the UK could revert to
imperial measure.  The UK government ran a consultation. The results
were almost totally in favour of retaining Metric Measure...
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https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/choice-on-units-of-measurement-markings-and-sales/outcome/choice-on-units-of-measurement-consultation-response
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or
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https://tinyurl.com/3bpjjae9

Good.  It's nice to see some sanity prevail.

(I do think that Farenheit is frankly a better scale for human
temperatures: 0 is really cold, 100 is really hot, the
differences between degress are small enough that they're
meaningful without fractions.  Compare to Celsius, where at 0,
water is getting icy and 100 you're dead.)

>
Went on a trip across Canada. Interesting to see the Americans response
to Celsius - total bafflement...

Eh....  I mean, if one is around it enough one gets used to it.

... I was also bemused by the bafflement of some USA passengers who did
not know why the Holland America's flagship the Nieuw Amsterdam has a
light representing the New York skyline.. Pic here -
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https://www.tripadvisor.com.my/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g1-d15691662-i386593179-Nieuw_Amsterdam-World.html
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or
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https://tinyurl.com/2469rxu3

Clearly not New Yorkers themselves.  We are well aware of the
Dutch involvement in the history of NYC.  It's why the
basketball team is called, "The Knickerbockers", for instance.

        - Dan C.