Trump says the United States does not need oil, gas, vehicles, or lumber imports from his allies to the north.

Trump made the comments Thursday, in his first speech to world leaders since returning to the White House for his second term.

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    2 months ago

    Then I guess Canada can just switch lumber production and construction standards over to metric now.

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        Every country that transitioned had some difficulty l, and it is a good idea for a metric country to use metric in construction … but it would make for good political ammunition.

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      A 2x4 stopped being a 2x4 so long ago, and keeps becoming less, we might as well measure them in metric now

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          Part of my work is with manufacturers and dimensional drawing info. Inches can be precise but some North American industries insist on fractional rounding on drawings (as a tolerance signifier). Then they chase QA stuff on why the assembly doesn’t go together per the print. It frustrates me…guys just used decimals!