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Whatever your grew up with will always seem more intuitive for most people. But given that I grew up with Fahrenheit, the whole “0 is cold as fuck, 100 is hot as fuck” thing works for me.

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Farenheit is asking Americans how hot they feel.

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Yeah, pretty much. I figured it was probably implied that I’m in the states. :)

I mean, SI units are objectively the best, and align with metric in most cases, but my brain is conditioned to accept Fahrenheit and miles per hour natively. Celsius and km/h have to go through an interpreter to convert them.

I have to say though, km/h has that “0 to 100” thing going for it that Fahrenheit does. 100 isn’t the fastest you’ll go, but it’s a typical highway speed.

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I have to say though, km/h has that “0 to 100” thing going for it that Fahrenheit does. 100 isn’t the fastest you’ll go, but it’s a typical highway speed.

but we could be using meters per second

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Do Americans feel heat differently or something?

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They’re one of only 3 countries in the world who still use °F, and represent 98% of the population who do so. So it’s basically just America.

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Fahrenheit is our broken clock being right once a day

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Yeah after I discovered that sort of meaning for fahrenheit, it made a lot more sense to me. So no issues with fahrenheit, but imperial is still crazy to me

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As an American this is how I feel. I don’t mind Fahrenheit but for absolutely everything else I desperately wish we’d switch.

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This is the way.

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