early_riser4d 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 threadRhynoplaz4d ago

Celsius does seem like a horrible measurement for weather.

Otherwise, metric is the clearly the best, but it’s foreign to me. I honestly have no idea what 175 cm looks like or, how heavy 5 kg is.

Show threadelucubra4d ago
What is wrong with celsius?
Show threadXeroxCool4d ago
They probably just aren’t familiar. I’m not. I like the idea of 0-100F being what humans can safely and directly experience (+/-30) but I have plenty of contacts that intrinsically know what C means to the same degree.
Show threadraparperi11
Then again, as someone from a cold northern country, using celsius and having 0 as the temperature where water freezes is very handy when you need to think about driving conditions. Anything below 0 means the roads are probably icy and you should be careful.
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Show threadXeroxCool3d ago
I haven’t had to think twice about 32F being the freezing point since before I could drive. It’s just one of a thousand numbers I can remember. There’s no particular advantage between g being 9.8m/s/s or 32ft/s/s. Nothing round about pi being 3.14. Whatever you use becomes recognizable quickly. My car takes 87 octane gas, takes 5w30 oil, has a wheel bolt pattern of 5x108mm or 5x4.25in, has a 63.4mm center bore, 320mm front brake rotors… The list goes on.