• @Deca@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    So Americans reject logic because… feelings?

    Get with the program, every other country historically used different ways of measuring things and eventually managed to make the switch.

    • Zoot
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      11 year ago

      So I was going to say that Fahrenheit has a better range of numbers to know when going from 68 is comfy to 70 is too warm, but 20c to 21c is basically exactly the same. Fuck your logic though, -50f is colder than -50c and that’s all I care about.

    • @flucksy_bango@lemmy.world
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      11 year ago

      Yup and that it wouldn’t be that useful for most people. It’d be a huge pain in the ass to reeducate the country too. Fools are proud. As long as the can buy milk they don’t care if it’s in liters or gallons.

      I try to try to remember the conversions, but it’s tricky and tedious. Iirc a mile is about 2.2 kilometers. A foot is shockingly close to 1/3 of a meter. 28°C is 82°F.

      I don’t care for the imperial system, I’m just forced to use it. Empires are bad in all forms.