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@rae@bne.social
2025-05-20 10:03:43

The metric system is 150 years old. The metre originated in the French Revolution, but its definition has changed many times since - ABC News abc.net.au/news/science/2025-0

The metre originated in the French Revolution, but its definition has changed many times since
The next time you pick up a bag of spuds from the supermarket or fill up the car with petrol, you can thank a treaty signed in 1875 for the metric system that underpins daily life.

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-06-18 04:43:03

Piketty on the need for a wealth tax, with a fairly hilarious French Revolution analogy – Le blog de Thomas Piketty lemonde.fr/blog/piketty/2025/0

Ultra-wealthy, the Senate beside the story
By opposing the 2% minimum wealth tax on the 1,800 French people whose net worth exceeds €100 million, after the measure was adopted by France's Assemblée nationale (lower house of Parliament), the upper house, the Sénat, has shown just how disconnected it is from the issues of our time. This is nothing new. Between 1896 …

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