• TooManyFoods@lemmy.world
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      I thought it failed because Rs in the senate said “wait no, we passed it by mistake, don’t vote on it please”, and democrats in the house have them what they wanted. A favor that would never be repaid, because they are stupid

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      11 hours 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.

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        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.

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        Exactly this. I don’t care where the permanent time lands. Just make it permanent and we’ll adjust.