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McDonald's workers in Italy declared a strike after being forced to work in sweltering kitchens in 104-degree temperatures with no AC (www.businessinsider.com)

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As Italy swelters under dangerous heat, McDonald's workers called a strike after their air conditioning broke in oppressively hot kitchens.

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[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or America could stop pretending to be special and just use the metric system.

[–] ilickfrogs@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right? You'd swear they invented the imperial system the way they latch on to it. Fucking ridiculous.

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I feel bad for american youth struggling in math and sciences. The imperial system has so much less connectivity between their units that the only way is to memorize all sorts of arbitrary numbers.