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Trump says he will hit Canada with 25% tariff next week after month-long pause (www.cbc.ca)

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Fuck you Trump. Just fucking do it. Stop playing stupid games and get to the goddamn point.

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[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I guess it's because they use to nab people for way smaller amount of drugs so they used the same unit even in case of huge haul for consistency. Still weird tho, SI units are made to be completely consistent at all times.

[–] janNatan@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm making a joke. Americans know what a kilogram is.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

Well they did have some pretty embarassing mistakes even at NASA level, so it's hard to tell