• theragu40@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    How often do you convert temperature to different units? Isn’t that what we are stupid for doing?

    And I would like to know why precision is irrelevant for temperature but relevant for other things.

    I’m being genuine, I’m not trying to shit on you. I’m pretty open about liking the metric system, and I think the reason we don’t use it is largely the extreme administrative costs of doing so more than anyone thinking imperial is actually better. I think most agree it’s pretty clearly worse.

    But I legitimately don’t understand how people can argue Celsius over fahrenheit when the arguments for fahrenheit largely match those for the metric system.

    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      How often do you convert temperature to different units? Isn’t that what we are stupid for doing?

      I was talking about Metric as a whole, where the units of measurement for distance, mass, etc. are easily convertible and the unit for temperature has sensible zero- and 100-points. I would have thought that was obvious.