Well hell man, we can't ever go metric after we learned what a Royale w/ Cheese is. Branding! Fast food > NIST? hehe
LOL, Overnight coming on strong with one of the tops scenes of all time from one of the top movies of all time.
Your first assessment of shrinkflation is accurate, your second about lumber could include the distinction ‘rough cut.’
Go up in the attic in of those houses and try to pound a nail in one of the rafters. It can't be done.
I know this is not at the top of everyone's list. But if I could mandate one social change for the U.S., I would insist that we change to the metric system. The rest of the world uses it. We lose billions of dollars in export revenue because our machinery is tooled to the standard English system and not metric. Besides, it would bond us a little closer to the rest of the world.