Winners of the 2024 Table Contest - Posit
Not the top winner, but let’s get people some water. Here's the real reason the U.S. doesn't use the metric system
Resistance was fueled in part by industrialists who argued the system was too complicated and expensive to implement, legislators suspicious of “foreign” influence, and controversies over whether wide-scale federal adoption might infringe on states’ rights.
The end result was confusion. Though the U.S. officially declared SI the nation’s preferred system through the 1975 Metric Conversion Act, even federal agencies were slow to adopt metric in industry, education, commerce, and daily life.
For generating a Star Wars intro of your commit history
Commendable to share things more openly and for collaboration potential.
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