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[–] 47 points 7 months ago (7 children)

I always preferred metric and Celsius. When I lived in South Korea, I was able to adapt immediately. Now I live in Europe and it makes all of the conversions easier.

Americans resistant to metric, in my opinion, are not very smart.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago* (6 children)

    Murican' here. The only place I prefer Fahrenheit is in weather mainly for how ironically base 10 it scales for human related comfortability for outdoor activity.

    100°+ dangerous heat

    90s very hot, drink lots of water

    80s shorts weather

    70s comfortable

    60s long sleeves

    50s jacket weather

    40s bring a coat

    30s coat and hat (water freezing is here at 32°)

    20s layers

    10s insulated layers

    0s very cold, protect exposed skin

    -0s dangerous cold

    Everywhere else I'm fine for C°

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    You can just scale it down and have the same experience. It's all just habit and familiarity

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    The whole point is that it is ironically base 10. I thought that was the goal?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (1 child)

    That's incidental:

    he adjusted the scale so that the melting point of ice would be 32 degrees, and body temperature 96 degrees, so that 64 intervals would separate the two, allowing him to mark degree lines on his instruments by simply bisecting the interval 6 times (since 64 = 2⁶).

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