Actual poster from 1917 that made me laugh. A lot.

Also, those motherfuckers are measuring the weight of those balls in kilograms, aren’t they?

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
    3·
    3 months ago

    It’s corporations, really, that seem to insist on having their products and tools still defaulting to US customary units…

    I am no corporate fan, but this one is not on them. They already sell the same products in metric everywhere else. If the US switched to metric, most corporations would be able to switch overnight.

    • Stovetop@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 months ago

      Not likey, the production lines used to service other countries are probably not the same used to supply the US.

      New equipment would have to be obtained, new processes developed based on differences with regional suppliers, different regulatory standards on the production process would have to be adhered to, and they’d lose out on the generations of compatibility with older standards that they are intent keeping as cost saving measures.

      Overnight is a stretch, but could they switch given enough time? Almost certainly. But it’s a major unnecessary expense that doesn’t immediately benefit shareholders.