• Makeitstop@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    We were so close a few years ago when the senate passed a bill with unanimous consent, only for the house to say fuck you and refuse to even consider it (can’t have anything useful getting done).

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        1 month ago

        This is any group decision making in a nutshell. All the arguing over the thing that matters least.

        They could’ve picked either and everyone would just adjust.

        • idiomaddict@lemmy.world
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          1 month ago

          Tbh, the US already uses imperial instead of metric, regardless of the difficulty coordinating with other countries. We could have just split the difference and been 30 minutes offset from other countries in the same time zones.