If I didn't believe you shot that, but I do, I would say it's a calendar page, WOWOW!!!!!

As a Washingtonian, also biased, but Oregon is always a treat 💚

Puget Sound

I’m put off by the term “metrication”.

World already went there.

NO.

Second this. Uwajimaya is a great old Japanese American local business, dating back to pre-internment days. Much better place for a tourist than a budget grocery store chain.

No. Im not doing anything that will require even the slightest bit of effort. Even writing this post was a bit of a drag...

Was his show in seattle? May have just been saying it for the crowd. I never believe the comments artists give when they come to your city

I feel the same thing the other way around. Oregon is beautiful, but when I see it, I almost don’t like admitting it as a Washingtonian

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If we can ever make Cascadia a (political) reality, I’d be all for it.

Until then, I don’t think Congress would go for it, and the Constitution explicitly gives them jurisdiction over anything involving interstate commerce.

The Columbia river is a world famous windsurfing mecca for a reason

No, because it is expensive and unless the rest of the US joins in it is moot. I doubt the NHTSA is chill with sudden jumps between units between states.

Also most all kids learn both, everyone in the sciences is trained in metric already. It needs to be nationwide or not at all

I am in favor of the metric system and use it often. What I see happening during any types of conversion is that we lose something in the conversion. Same price / lower amount, however, you don't see it easily without a calculator. Examples:

We keep our rooms at 20°C, this is 68°F, a little cool for me.

2 dollars per liter, this is $8/ gallon ( rounded)

2 kilos would be sold in place of 5 pounds loosing (600 grams or 1.3 pounds)

Speed Limit 110 km/hr is 68 MPH (rounded)

We should do this and be educated so that we know what we are getting.

No

I just touch the little microphone picture on my phone & ask for the conversions.

Dealing in metric feels a lot like eating vegetables I hate. I know I should, I know it's good for me in the long run, but I sure don't like doing it.

If you’re in Seattle you should check out Uwajimaya. They have different hot food counters for different regions. It has been a. Couple of years. But they had over 7 different countries and regions food there. (https://www.uwajimaya.com/visit/seattle/)

Exactly

That could work, if it is actually followed through. The reason I suggest a fast conversion is to force people to adapt to the change without conversion efforts being stymied by resistance.

This place! Has a good food court area, spied a lot of great food. Lines were nuts.

It's the way the world is going. Why? Because it is the only thing that makes sense.

If the surrounding states also convert, it doesn’t really matter. Washington is isolated from the eastern U.S. and shouldn’t be beholden to their inability to progress.

I use metric a LOT and "rapidly" is the wrong approach, IMO. The change in signage isn't the hurdle, it's the mental shift in getting folks to understand the new units, rather than getting resistance of how they can't kilometers.

A law on the order of "Every [sign/marking] which includes Imperial must (upon its next replacement/update) include SI units of measurement, either in-addition-to or in-place-of, the Imperial units" would facilitate a gradual introduction, making SI prominent as signage naturally needs updating. And then let time take its course. We'll probably end up in a UK/Canada hybrid-units situation (minus body-weight in stone) but it's still progress.