Time to just give up, i guess. 🙄 On Sun, Nov 22, 2020, 8:06 PM Brian White <[email protected]> wrote:
> If it's that easy, why wasn't it done 10 years ago, or 25, or 40? > > Won't happen. And if it's brought up, then it's an "us vs them" political > fight which actually then sets us back. > > On Nov 22, 2020, at 19:46, Ezra Steinberg <[email protected]> wrote: > >  > The good news is that Bill Nye (The Science Guy) hosted Senator Chuck > Schumer of NY the other day to talk about the need to move aggressively to > address the climate crisis, which Schumer wholeheartedly agreed with. > > At one point during the interview Nye implied how we finally need in the > USA to convert to metric by making a slightly snide remark about how > archaic Fahrenheit was, which gave me the strong impression he favors > metrication. (He may have even been more explicit in other appearances he > has made on TV over the years, which would not surprise me.) > > So, if both Senate races in Georgia go to the Democrats, Schumer becomes > Majority Leader. At that point we can contact Nye to see if he can prevail > on Schumer to get legislation passed to at least allow metric only labels > on products and maybe pass other measures to start easing the USA into > metric. > > Ezra > > > On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 11:06 AM Robert Price <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Sad to say, but I agree. Obama wasn't too warm to metric and I don't see >> why his former vice president will be any different. >> >> >> On Thursday, November 19, 2020, 9:30:56 PM CST, Brian White < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Not a chance anything will change. Sad to say but true. >> >> On Nov 19, 2020, at 19:04, J McClellan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>  >> >> So is anyone here at all even a bit more hopeful that there might be some >> forward metric movement in the US with a new (purportedly more progressive) >> administration? >> I've already got a letter ready to send out on the 26th of January :P >> Hope everybody here does the same!! >> >> >> GO METRIC, AMERICA! >> *Because the kings' foot STINKS.* >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> USMA mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma >> _______________________________________________ >> USMA mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma >> _______________________________________________ >> USMA mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma >> > _______________________________________________ > USMA mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma > >
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