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[โ€“] 13 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Which units are best doesn't matter: the point is, nobody else uses standard units anymore, apart from a couple oddball countries, and only one of them - North Korea - isn't trying to extricate itself from it.

Everybody else tries to be a part of the world's technical and scientific communities by speaking the same language, but of course America has to be different. Because of course it does... And it's tiring if you ask me.

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  • [โ€“] 12 points 1 month ago* (3 children)

    America does speaks metric, especially the technical and scientific communities. They just also speak standard.

    Don't other countries get on Americans for not speaking more than one language? Why is that now a detriment?

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    You are calling that "standard units" ? When only 1 country uses them ? Oh the irony ...

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  • [โ€“] -2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    And I agree with you, fully, except for temperature. โ€œIf everyone was jumping off a bridgeโ€, right?

    The scale is stupid and I donโ€™t give a fuck if itโ€™s the โ€œnormโ€. The norm is dumb.

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Norms may be dumb but they make everybody's lives easier when everybody follows them.

    As for temperature specifically, there's nothing inherently better in Celsius or Fahrenheit. It's just a choice. The only unit that is superior to all of them is the Kelvin because it has a true zero, but it's not commonly used in everyday settings.

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  • [+] -17 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    But there is something inherently better in Fahrenheit! 0 is fucking cold. 100 is goddamn hot. Itโ€™s a measure that makes sense to the perception of us, human beings.

    0 in Celsius is a little cooler than brisk, and 100 means youโ€™ve been dead for a while. Itโ€™s a dumb system for humans to use.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    0 means water freezing, 100 means water boiling. This is actually quite helpful to know instinctively.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Sure if we are cooking, doing chemistry or anything else that directly involves liquids and doesn't need extremely specific values that Celsius isn't equip to handle.

    The only real difference between f and c is how fine the scale is. That's it. Literally the ONLY functional difference.

    If you dont need a finer scale then F has no benefits over C and they are entirely equal.

    And realistically if your getting into precision just use fucking kelvin.

    Both F and C objectively suck ass equally. Honestly the only time in my life I've found F or C to better is when I need to set the temp on a thermostat. F on cheap thermostats is more reliable as it has less leeway before it kicks on/off. Resulting in a more consistent air temperature.

    C tends to drift more above and below the set point. But nicer thermostats tend to not have that issue anyways. So it's a moot point most of the time.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 month ago

    You do realise water can fall from the sky, right? 100ยฐC might not be too useful for outside temperatures, but knowing if there might be ice on the road or not seems like a useful thing to know.

    Also, as a maths teacher, having frequent negative temperatures makes working with negative numbers a lot more intuitive for students. The fact that Americans apparently use 1 for the ground floor means Iโ€™d lose out on both of my simple real-world examples of negative numbers.

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