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[–] saltnotsugar@lemm.ee 40 points 2 years ago (25 children)

Someone once told me it was 20 degrees Celsius out. I didn’t know if it was snowing, blazing, or if he was moving at 50 furlongs a minute.

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (15 children)

Not being used to F at all, it seems to me that C has at least least some very notable landmarks - 0 frozen, 100 boiling. I have zero landmarks for F

[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.sdf.org 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

There are people in the US who will fight tooth and nail to defend the imperial system, as if it's superior in some way. It just doesn't make sense to me. It's harder to learn, completely inconsistent, and unlike standard metric, there is no scientific basis for the measurements. They're just random distances that someone made up.

Tell me, what's easier to remember? 0°C or 32°F? 100°C or 212°F? 1000m = 1km or 5280ft = 1mi

[–] StenSaksTapir 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's actually kinda weird that they use dollars and cents and not pounds, shillings, pennies and farthings, because that feels much more compatible with the imperial way of thinking.

[–] Rambi@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You're right actually, when you think about it $1 being 100 cents is basically communism. $1 should be 57.93 cents

[–] StenSaksTapir 5 points 2 years ago

I think even using decimals like that seems un-American, because I've always been told that fractions are what makes imperial so easy. Everyone loves calculating fractions after all, so perhaps a cent should be 1/37th of a dollar.

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