• scarabic@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Americans: go pick up the closest consumer packaged good within reach. You will find it is labeled with metric.

    It would be nice to get highway signs in both units, though with Google maps obeying whatever’s selected in your settings, that matters less than ever. Some woodworking stuff is just too far gone down the imperial hole and will never come back. But other than such odd niches, you can live a metric life in the US without much trouble.

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      Americans: go pick up the closest consumer packaged good within reach. You will find it is labeled with metric.

      Yes, but that’s likely because they want to sell it in Canada without changing the packaging design, isn’t it? Even if they have to put French on the other side for Canada, it’s cheaper in terms of development to have a single English design for both the U.S. and Canada, so it will be labeled in both Imperial and metric.