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ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔@beehaw.org to U.S. News@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago

Prepare to flick off your incandescent bulbs for good under new US rules that kicked in this week

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Prepare to flick off your incandescent bulbs for good under new US rules that kicked in this week

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ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔@beehaw.org to U.S. News@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago
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Thomas Edison's pioneering incandescent light bulb, which cast illumination by heating a filament until it glowed, is fading into history.
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    Converts American units like miles and ounces into normal units like metres and litres.

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      It should be bi-directional. We don’t need bots that are just pedantry disguised as “corrections”.

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      normal units like… bananas.

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