early_riser6d ago

My fellow 'Muricans, do you prefer metric or standard measurements?

https://lemmy.world/post/44373030

My fellow 'Muricans, do you prefer metric or standard measurements? - Lemmy.World

We’re taught both metric and US customary units in school. I prefer metric for most things, to the point I have a metric-only tape measure among other things. However, I’ll die on the hill that Fahrenheit is superior for ambient air temperature. 0 degrees to 100 degrees neatly encompasses the range of average surface temperatures seen throughout the year in the contiguous US.

Show threadDevadander
Fahrenheit for temperature until the day I die. The rest I don’t really care, the mental conversions are easy enough to get close enough. But F for temp as a human being is vastly superior
Mar 17 at 1:07pmWeb
Show threadQuilotoa6d ago
How is it vastly superior? 0 is freezing. 100 is boiling. 25 is comfortable human temperature.
Show threadresipsaloquitur6d ago
Thermostats and other temperature displays with three digits for Celsius are a tacit admission that Fahrenheit is more useful.
Show threadQuilotoa6d ago
They are an admission that the U.S. market is large. 99 % of the world’s countries using Celcius is a blatant admission that celcius is more useful.
Show threadDevadander6d ago
Precisely. You get it
Show threadDevadander6d ago
I’m not a cup of water
Show threadcepelinas5d ago
Tbf you are water, just really impure.
Show threadDevadander5d ago
The meat is going to be very uncomfortable long before the water freezes or melts