• ExtremeDullard@piefed.social
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    2 months ago

    Americans have compatibility issues with the rest of the world, and it’s not getting any better - in more ways than this one.

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      2 months ago

      Whatever. Metric is better in pretty much every other way, but Fahrenheit is demonstrably better for describing temperature as experienced by a human.

      • JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        2 months ago

        I don’t understand how this is the case. I feel like it would only be perceived as being true by growing up with the system. Like i guess I don’t know where you grew up so I shouldn’t really make this assertion but I feel like most people from countries that use Celsius have probably never thought “hey I think it’s weird that 30 degrees is considered really hot.”

        I guess you could make the same argument that people living in the United States don’t complain about water boiling at 212 degrees but that also doesn’t address the compatibility issue