so 50 ought to be the perfect temperature.

also, decimals exist.

It's not any better than Celsius though - you are only saying that because you are familiar with Fahrenheit.

Celsius

• 0 - freezing
• 10 - cold
• 20 - room temp
• 30 - hot
• 40 - miserably hot
• 100 - boiling

No, that's ridiculous and arbitrary. 100 degrees Fahrenheit is already way past too fucking hot and zero is far below too fucking cold. Zero to thirty degrees Celsius is a solid cold-to-hot range. 100°C to boil water, a very common human activity, makes far more sense than 212°F, too.

Anything 0F or below is too fucking cold for humans. Anything 100F or above is too fucking hot for humans.

... Tell me you're a privileged US resident w/o using those words. 😶

I will never understand this argument, how could any temperature scale be more intuitive than "0 is where water freezes, 100 is where it boils"??

Those two things are utterly universal unless you happen to live high up on a mountain (in which case you'll be off by a couple degrees, oh the horror) and quite possibly the most relevant temperatures for us.

The only other objective and universal temperatures i can think of would be when skin burns and when you get frostbite or something, the latter of which is still questionably objective and both of which are.. impractical to use for calibration..

I agree, but I'm committed to the bit.

Agree. I will argue for this til the day I die

Nope, it isn't. The pipes of my AC are sold as 15cm, my monitor box said 68.5cm, my deodorant got 250ml in it and my E-Scooter tires show 2.5 bar on the pump's display.

For monitors US companies unfortunately managed to screw up the default sizes for everyone so now laptops got "15.6 inches", but both laptop and monitor packaging also usually says sth. like 40cm on it so that's fine I guess.

I live in Japan. Pressure is in Bars (or, for older things, other odd units that are not PSI). Bicycle tires, screens, etc. are called HoweverManyInch-type but also have measurements listed in mm/cm. Nothing here has only floz. I guess imported products may, but I think they technically must be labeled in sensible units for sale.

There is no rule that says you need to use the largest unit available, on the opposite the unit used often indicates the precision of the measurement taken. If you say something is 400mm, it's normal to assume that means 400±1mm. 4dm would be ±1dm.

That would be "4.00 decimeters". People tend to skip decimeters entirely tbh, large things are measured in meters, small things in centimers, tiny things in millimeters. It is true that my desk is 8 decimeter deep and 24 decimeter wide, but it was listed as 2.4x0.8m in the store.

All deci- are rare actually. I sometimes encounter deciliters in recipes, but they're just as likely to go for 10 centiliters or 0.1 liters.

anyone who has worked with blueprints has it hammered into them that you ALWAYS use millimeters to prevent confusion, go complain to the engineers who make sure the buildings you're in don't crumble apart.

Metric is wonderful scientifically and annoying practically.

It is annoying to you because you are not used to it. It is perfectly fine and very useful for the rest of us.

.. annoying practically

Said no one actually familiar with the metric system, ever.

i'm genuinely struggling a lot to figure out what your argument is here

annoying practically.

Strong disagree here. Maybe if you live in the US where the other units aren't frequently used yet, it's annoying. I grew up in the US but now live in Japan where most things are metric. The only big exceptions I can think of that require calculation are a couple of traditional units for property size, room size, and alcohol size (and some of those are slowly becoming less common).

I would love an explanation on how you find metric "annoying practically"

Without even looking it up, 86.4ksec in a day, and 30 megaseconds in a year (525600 minutes). Easy.

I like a 500ml beer. Good size tbh.