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Hey I'm American and think we should switch to metric. While Celsius has a more objective basis than Fahrenheit, doesn't seem like the same slam dunk as the other measurements.
Are there applications where we're measuring in centicelsius or kilocelsius? There aren't weird non-base ten increments of Fahrenheit. In Fahrenheit 0 is cold and 100 is hot as well...
I'm still fine changing to it, just doesn't seem to have the same "in your face" value for this graphic.
We do use metric in America. All the time actually. It's taught in high school science classes. We use it in science, medicine, aerospace, military, and engineering.
Celsius makes most sense in places that experience proper winter.
Is it above 0? Then the snow is melting. Is it below 0? Then the melted snow has turned into slippery ice. Have fun!
Yes... Thank you British Empire, French Empire, and Spanish Empire for your contributions to the system.
-British: Mile, Foot, Inch, Yard
-Spanish: Dollar, from the Spanish Pieces of 8
-French: You know what you did
I'm so confused, you didn't have the room to write "calculator", but you had the room to write "(calc is short for calculator btw)"
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I think the implication was supposed to be that the Americans call calculators "calcs" and the image wants to ridicule them for that. I have to say I don't think I've ever heard of that outside of maybe software names, but I'm not from the US.
I believe that's in reference to a clip of a streamer saying that repeatedly. It's not supposed to make sense I think.
Milk bottles in the supermarkets in the UK are now using weird sizes like 1.136l, because apparently that easier for some old cunt to read.
I'm accustomed to the imperial system. But agree that metric is better.
Some metric stuff I have no trouble with. I have a good spatial sense of the distance of a mm, m, and km. And can do a rough miles to km (and vice versa) conversion in my head. I have a good sense of how much a kg is and similarly can do a rough conversion to and from lbs in my head. But while I understand that a gram is 1/1000 of a kg, if handed a small object and asked to guess how many grams it is, I'd fail miserably.
Celsius I can't ever remember the conversion, but I've had enough exposure to it that I understand if it means cold/cool/warm/hot weather.
There was something I read once upon a time that was like:
F is how hot/cold people are C is how hot/cold water is K is how hot/cold matter is
I feel like that's pretty accurate.