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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Seems like a waste of money to replace, and this is coming from someone that wouldn’t mind if we switched to metric here in the states. The Fahrenheit to Celsius conversion is the only one that fucks me up

Oh and Japan uses both 50 and 60, so we’re not even the craziest grid setup

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de -5 points 2 months ago

Yeah ofc now its kinda too late. But there was a time where it was easily foreseeable that it would make sense to switch, but wasnt done.