Exxxxactly...
> On Nov 23, 2020, at 05:11, Ressel, Howard R (DOT) <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Sadly with so much disagreement about so many things right now metric is not > a top priority. No need to give up just keep pushing on the grass roots level. > > Howard > > From: USMA <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Ezra Steinberg > Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2020 11:12 PM > To: Brian White <[email protected]> > Cc: USMA List Server <[email protected]> > Subject: [USMA 1602] Re: The SI and the new administration > > ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do not open attachments > or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected emails. > > > 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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