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[-] theragu40@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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 -3 points 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.

[-] theragu40@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Why would you talk about metric as a whole in response to a question asking about Celsius in particular? I very openly stated that I understand why metric in general is used for measurements of length, weight, and volume and asked specifically why people argue that Celsius is superior when its weaknesses in comparison to fahrenheit are similar to imperial's weaknesses in comparison to metric.

I would have thought that was obvious.

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