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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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I think you're confused about what I'm getting at. This would be more of a "You know what? Since you're unilaterally crashing the global economy and betraying all of your allies, and the gloves are off, we're sick of your shit." Point of view.
As in keep your "that's what we've always used" to yourselves, and forget attempting to export anything that conforms to something other than metric. As in, adding cost to production to appease the strict anti-SAE, anti Imperial everything market. Sorry, can't import that; Fahrenheit has been referenced.
Everything. Every commodity, ingredient, finished good. If it has anything other than SI attached to it, the rest of the world shuns it.
The purpose would be to make it very irritating for American companies to bend to the rest of the world's standard, simply because you're being complete Dickheads on the global stage.
You understand nothing.
I'm talking about trade using the ISO standard exclusively, and being punitive to any entity from the US that merely uses SAE guidelines in their production and QA.
If any reference to non SI weights and measures can be found in the production process, there's an embargo against it.
But go on, explain to me the concept of relabeling stuff, as though I'm unfamiliar with the concept.
That would be ridiculously difficult to enforce. Also, most manufacturing, American or not, is already done in metric. It would be trivial for companies to swap units. There are many, many better ways to tariff American goods.