• WoodScientist@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    In the US, we should make things even more confusing to anger the metric folks. I propose we redefine the “foot” every four years. The length of the foot will always correspond to the actual measured foot length of the current US president.

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      4 days ago

      the fact that you think this will anger metric folks who already don’t make sense of your dumb system rather than ruin many aspects of your country … uh … never mind, you’re already ruining many aspects of country. ignore what I was going to say. carry on.

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      What if we defined a foot such that a cubic food of some good, say potatoes or something, is a specific amount of money. So it’s tied to inflation.