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No, it’s just in response to the countless number of non Americans who constantly insult Americans because we have a slightly different measurement system that doesn’t effect the insulter in the slightest. It doesn’t help that anyone in the sciences in America do know metric, like fully, no one has a problem using it here and I know plenty of people even outside of the sciences that know enough metric to get by fine, you guys really need to get over your strange obsession with our measurement system.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
Starski@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
Oh no, I guess my one spelling error means my entire point now means nothing, oh dang
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
somebody has to obsess over hurrdurr dumdum murican
voodooattack@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I write fiction and use Celsius. So what I usually have to deal with is the exact opposite of what you’re talking about.
wabasso@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
I don’t disagree that people venting about F can get overzealous. I still think there’s a significant improvement with C though. Not saying it’ll make American scientists better, I believe you that they do fine with it. But that’s also contingent on the rest of the units being imperial.
I often see conversion constants with the unit conversion baked into them, so you lose info on what was the empirically derived constant and what’s just there to allow you to multiply temperature in F against other thermo quantities that rely on relation back to Kelvin.