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  • MuhammadJesusGaySex@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Ehhh I know my metic system!!! Check this out.

    Kg is 2.2 lbs a good roundish number.

    Cm is almost half an inch.

    Km is just over half a mile

    Celsius kinda throws me but I know 36c to 37c is body temp and 0 is the freezing point of water, and 100 is the boiling point of water. Sooooo I can guesstimate from there.

    See there rest of the world. Your metric system doesn’t scare me!!

  • kingludd@lemmy.basedcount.com
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    1 year ago

    Decimilization legit sucks though. We should just move everything to base 12, and standardize imperial measures to base 12.

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    1 year ago

    Imperial is trash but, listen, Fahrenheit is the superior system for describing weather on Earth and I will die on this hill. 0 is very cold, 100 is very hot. Below or above either, respectively, is a very bad time.

    Celsius is obviously superior for basically any other measurement of temperature, of course.

    • Sekoia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      In C, 0 is cold, 10 is mild, 20 is comfy, 30 is hot (european climate). And sure, Farenheit is more granular. But you can’t actually measure down to the Farenheit (say in weather forecasts, but even in a thermometer it’s iffy), so that granularity is useless (and in fact adds noise). Also, having “negative numbers might freeze” is really convenient for weather.

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        1 year ago

        I can happily confirm the granularity is not useless. I can definitely tell when my house is 73 and when it is 74. And I live where it is very hot. There is a very noticeable difference between like 89 and 91. The actual degrees of difference are pretty useful. The vast majority of terrestial weather also fits nicely into this very simple 0-100 typical range, and you can still easily summarize by describing weather in the 50’s or the 80’s, for example. It’s just better imo.