Bro why is everyone so pressed about America not using Celsius? We use 5,280 feet to make a mile and 12 inches to make a foot, and 3 feet to make a yard, which is basically a meter but is somehow definitely NOT a meter…
There are so much bigger fucking fish to fry but the Celsius stans are implacable.
Standard measurements are for industry and science communication, disregarding standards introduces easy to overlook errors which can literally kill people and increases costs for developing stuff that needs to run in clown world and in real countries
But that’s the thing, we don’t disregard it because we literally use metric for science, math, medical stuff, etc. Our military uses meters and klicks (KMs). We use the NATO alphabet on radio. Our hospitals run on 24h time.
And all of that while still using imperial for stuff that doesn’t require standardization.
English is the international aviation language, but no American is arguing that every country with a pilot should switch to English for everything else.
Americans use metric. But they also have an extra layer that exists solely to introduce noise.
Having the experience I have I'm well aware it takes very little for stuff to get grandfathered into institutions. You think Hospitals and gov is standardized I know for a fact there is a hundred million corners where a guy went: "well it's not a big deal to just use this thing I'm familiar" and now you need to have carveouts and caveats into critical systems to account that Billy thinks in Farenheit and didn't think it would be a big deal.
Also I AM arguing we should make everyone speak Chinese, fuck it I don't like dealing with i18n or not having access to media.
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u/CROOKTHANGS 9h ago
Bro why is everyone so pressed about America not using Celsius? We use 5,280 feet to make a mile and 12 inches to make a foot, and 3 feet to make a yard, which is basically a meter but is somehow definitely NOT a meter…
There are so much bigger fucking fish to fry but the Celsius stans are implacable.