Been thinking about a way to harness the US President’s penchant for issuing impulsive changes that burn institutions and tradition down for no reason. It may be time to trick him into forcing the US onto the metric system. Convince his son in law that “Brits were ripping us off when they forced it on us in the 1492 Treaty of Leicester” or “Imperial measurements are just a tool used by East Coast liberals to make fun of Jesus” or something.

@wordman You mean liberating the US from the shackles of yet another meaningless tradition.

He's much lighter in kilograms than in pounds.

@adamshostack He’s only two and half in gigaseconds.