After the 2019 revision of the SI, this definition [of the metre] was rephrased to include the definition of a second in terms of the caesium frequency ΔνCs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre

Right. So they’re already:

wildly unpopular

impossible to vote out

What does this incident do to change that? Nothing

October 7 massacre

vs

detained Palestinians

Completely ignoring the starved, bombed, and shot ones not in detention (they are dead)

If you want to be even more pedantic you could say no metre stick is exactly 1 metre long according to the current definition of a metre. If you want to be scientific then all of them are within some reasonable range like 1.000 ± 0.002 m. If you want to be historic then at one time there was a perfect metre stick

In 1799, the metre was redefined in terms of a prototype metre bar. The bar used was changed in 1889, and in 1960 the metre was redefined in terms of a certain number of wavelengths of a certain emission line of krypton-86. The current definition was adopted in 1983 and modified slightly in 2002 to clarify that the metre is a measure of proper length. From 1983 until 2019, the metre was formally defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum in 1/299792458⁠ of a second.