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That's real 😂😂😂😂 (lemmy.world)
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[–] 12 points 3 months ago (16 children)

Which units are best doesn't matter: the point is, nobody else uses standard units anymore, apart from a couple oddball countries, and only one of them - North Korea - isn't trying to extricate itself from it.

Everybody else tries to be a part of the world's technical and scientific communities by speaking the same language, but of course America has to be different. Because of course it does... And it's tiring if you ask me.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

    America does speaks metric, especially the technical and scientific communities. They just also speak standard.

    Don't other countries get on Americans for not speaking more than one language? Why is that now a detriment?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    You are calling that "standard units" ? When only 1 country uses them ? Oh the irony ...

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  • [–] -2 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    And I agree with you, fully, except for temperature. “If everyone was jumping off a bridge”, right?

    The scale is stupid and I don’t give a fuck if it’s the “norm”. The norm is dumb.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    Norms may be dumb but they make everybody's lives easier when everybody follows them.

    As for temperature specifically, there's nothing inherently better in Celsius or Fahrenheit. It's just a choice. The only unit that is superior to all of them is the Kelvin because it has a true zero, but it's not commonly used in everyday settings.

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  • [+] -15 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    But there is something inherently better in Fahrenheit! 0 is fucking cold. 100 is goddamn hot. It’s a measure that makes sense to the perception of us, human beings.

    0 in Celsius is a little cooler than brisk, and 100 means you’ve been dead for a while. It’s a dumb system for humans to use.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    0 means water freezing, 100 means water boiling. This is actually quite helpful to know instinctively.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    You do realise water can fall from the sky, right? 100°C might not be too useful for outside temperatures, but knowing if there might be ice on the road or not seems like a useful thing to know.

    Also, as a maths teacher, having frequent negative temperatures makes working with negative numbers a lot more intuitive for students. The fact that Americans apparently use 1 for the ground floor means I’d lose out on both of my simple real-world examples of negative numbers.

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