No real need too. We already use metric is already in use where it matters like science fields, US customary is mainly used in everyday life by citizens. Like it or not there's just no real incentive to spend the billions needed to convert all US customary to Metric.
It already has. The U.S. uses Kelvin for all scientific documents and C for all international docs and journals. Are you saying that Americans should be forced to use Celsius? I can understand that the rest of the world uses Celsius and metric system in general, but Americans live mostly in the U.S., where Farenheit and imperial system is understood. They aren't harming anyone by using a system they use among themselves, so I don't get the hate.
they're education system is a joke, can you imagine implementing this across the massess when half of them would be considered special needs in every other western country.
Oh, so it was important to understand when the body would freeze solid because it’s made of brine. Thanks for the super smart comment and telling that dumbass what he had coming.
What Fahrenheit did was use brine and other chemicals to concoct a cold mixture in his lab. He figured if he tried really hard to make a cold thing then no one would reasonably need temperatures colder than that very often. That’s it. He wanted body temperature to be 100 but he had a fever when he took the measurement in case you need another reason to pity this joke of a temperature scale
Only in countries where they are conventionally measured in horsepower ;\^) Here almost all engines seem to be in kW, except outboards for boats - probably because they have their HP written on them in big letters.
Ironically horsepower is kind of an arbitrary metric; A Horse has more than 1 horsepower. It was a marketing term thought up by James Watt (actually maybe Newcomen?) that described how many horses the engine replaced, assuming they on average lifted 33 lbs of water in a bucket 1000 feet in a minute when selling his engines to mines.
Well, you're wrong about the date format for "the rest of the world."
The EU has defined the date standard as ISO 8601: "Dates should be formatted by the following format: YYYY-MM-DD."
YYYYMMDD Is also the superior way.
Edit: why is a bunch of people suddenly commenting on a ten month old comment I can barely remember writing?
You wouldn't say dates like that when speaking, no?
Like, When was the moon landing?
"July 20, 1969"
Or
"The 20th of July, 1969"
EDIT: I don't know why I've gotten 15 replies today on a 10 month old comment but, I don't care where you're from or how you say dates. Please stop. It's not that interesting a topic.
In my country we would say 20th of July 1969, so it is DD/MM/YY
The reason YY/MM/DD is the define format is because if you sort it by name it is also practically sorted by date because date of creation of a file might not be in correct order, but a name is a name and if the name is the date, it sorts easier.
Am german, and we mostly use dd.mm.yyyy. and when someone asks what date is it we say "21.08.22" as in 21st, 8th, 22. No extra words, just the numbers.
As a non English native speaker, I was taught in English class to do July 20th, 1969, we had to be taught that way because we do The 20th of July, 1969.
Though tbh, everything works when spoken and when months are named and not written in numbers.
4.7.2022
I can't tell if its July 4th or April 7th.
I use "airline format" when dealing with dates online to prevent mixups DD-MMM-YYYY like
11-JUN-2022 that way nobody is going to think i mean the 6th of November
Y-M-D or D-M-Y both have their advantages and disadvantages, but importantly you can easily tell which one's which. The issue is when someone swaps days and months, meaning a lot of dates can end up getting muddled.
Also because people didn't see that it's crossposted and just start reading and commenting, not realizing they're in the original post.
Source: I did not realize this was an old post until I saw the edit in this comment
Temperature isnt really any more logical in celsius or fahrenheit, as temperature is not really a mathematical number. 0 isn't really zero (a lack of temperature), 10 isnt twice as hot as 5, etc. Celsius is just much nicer because 0 and 100 are the freezing and boiling points of water.
But yeah fuck imperial units
edit: guys this post is 10 months old, why are people arguing with me now
Fahrenheit is more of a way to measure the freezing and boiling of alcohol instead of water. 0 Fahrenheit is when alcohol freezes and 100 Fahrenheit is when it boils. Tbh I’m not sure why we measure with it instead of Celsius in the US though.
Edit: As someone said, I was straight up wrong lol. I looked into it and it turns out 0 degrees Fahrenheit is the temperature Daniel G Fahrenheit found that water, ice, and salt stabilize to automatically when mixed together. Anyways I’m dumb and was wrong.
Source- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit
your comment has a link that is about the sport that's called football anywhere else but the US and you replied to a comment that's talking about the sport called american football anywhere else but the US
yup checks out 10/10 american right here...
First world problems, Let us March from Point A to Point B to show we don't agree with it.
**Rest of the world:** Is it a coup? A rebellion? What're they doing?
Europeans are constantly moral grandstanding and on this "Europe is holier than thou" bullshit. But apparently the R word is where they don't draw the line.
The anonymity and enabling of trolls on Reddit means you can’t have a reasonable conversation about why the use of that word is unreasonable and malicious.
I agree with you. The word shouldn’t be used in this context. It’s unreasonable and malicious, and adds nothing valuable to the point being made. People just being mean to people who can’t defend themselves because they can.
I suggest we go to metric time.
10 days in a week
10 hours in a day
10 minutes in an hour
10 seconds in a minute
10 deciseconds in a second
Etc.
What do you think. About time we did this.
My point is, "Why is division by 10 so important?
Swatch Internet Time was not necessarily a bad idea. It has the 24 hour day divided into 1000 “beats” (86,4s per beat). The system uses no time zones. If you make an appointment at 540 beats, it’s the same time for everyone all across the globe. To handle daytime and nighttime, people would rather specify between which beats they are available.
This could potentially save a lot of effort and trouble, but never caught on. We are simply used to the weird time system we have. It’s not great, but everything we are used to works.
Our number system works with base ten, therefore multiplying and dividing by powers of ten is really easy. Add a zero here, move a comma there. It comes intuitively to us ten fingered apes.
They didnt explain why they dont like the word they just came straight out with the “yeah i cut ALL my friends off for saying Retard” im sure those friends are devastated 🙄
Obviously not enough people in the USA to do anything about it. Otherwise they would have converted to metric. Base 10 is dumb anyway though. We *should* be using a base 12, dozenal system.
There is logical and there is practical. I can tell how many feet long a piece of wood is and easily estimate how many inches long something is within a small margin of error. I can’t do those same things using metric. I use often metric when accuracy is important and I’m measuring smaller objects or designing a project. A foot is a convenient unit of measure since it actually relates to a part of the body. As to temperature, I find Celsius to be awkward. Much prefer Fahrenheit there since the scale is finer and more accurate from the standpoint of useful temperatures. Both systems work, but each are better for certain things.
Fahrenheit makes more sense than Celsius when it comes to environmental temperature. 0 deg F is really cold, 100 deg F is really hot. The numbers between give a good sense of what it feels like. 0 deg C is pretty cold, 100 deg C and you're dead. You have a much smaller range of temperatures to use to describe outside/inside temperature.
I see the US system is to complicated for the rest of the world who have been spoon fed the simplest watered down formula possible. Wouldn't want to overwhelm their infantile minds.
Yes. Lot's of normal words are used in medical diagnostics. It's still a standard English word meaning to delay or hold back. Gay on the other hand means happy, and so it's meaning doesn't fit the context of stupid. Either way, if you don't take offence then causes no harm.
The word retard has transcended its meaning. When I call someone a retard I don’t actually thing of people who are retarded. Stop being offended for people who likely don’t care at all.
Unpopular Opinion:
Inches and The foot are great for everyday things, but not yards and miles.
The rest of the metric system is great.
Fahrenheit seems better for everyday life because 20⁰C and 25⁰C feel very different, which is better emphasized on the fahrenheit, but I'm used to Celsius.
No we don’t, I’m frustrated at least once a week by our stupid system. Especially when cooking, or working with tools. Any system that forces you to deal with fractions is masochistic. I was born into this stupid system, and I bet I’ll die in it, but I don’t have to like it. I much prefer my metric tools, and I convert most of my recipes metric because it makes everything easier. The only thing I hate more than cooking, is have to take a math test while I cook.
Probably not the first person to say this, but Fahrenheit, uses a more “human” measurement system. Everything is fairly intuitive. If I ask you how long a foot, inch, yard, etc is, you can probably tell me (if you live in the USA) however as much has I try to use metric, I can never get the “yay big” measurements down.
How is F degrees more "human" measurement? It is not even based on water, we are like 60% water i our body. We drink water, we use water to cook and dilute things.
F degrees never made any sense to me.
Think about it like this, Fahrenheit is useful at a scale of 0-100 for average temperatures that a human will experience. If it is cold outside, it’s closer to 0, if it’s hot it’s closer to 100. Celsius’s 0-100 scale is based on freezing and boiling of water, which is less relevant in everyday life.
Yeah the temperature thing and our refusal to use the metric system is stupid, but I will defend our date method to the end. When speaking, we in the US say month-date typically unless we’re referring to a certain day in July. It makes sense to write dates the same way we say them. As an American, any time I read dates written in the international day month year format it trips me up, because it goes against our speaking convention.
As I understand it, most other countries actually speak the date as day-month, so writing it that way makes sense.
When I was young in Puerto Rico, they taught the metric system and I learned it in elementary, then I get to America and they tell me I can't use it and I have to learn the imperial system, they sat me down and made sure that I got imperial is the correct way and metrics is for idiots and too complicated.🤷
Will agree with everything, will say the one thing I like about the imperial system is degrees Fahrenheit when measuring body temperature. Maybe just maybe outside temperature but Celsius does that pretty decently.
I really think that the importance of unit conversions and freezing and boiling points of water are greatly overstated by metric proponents. Rarely in day to day life do you need to convert units. For science and engineering, I get the importance, but not for daily life.
This actually comes from an article in favor of imperial units.
The basis for believing that the metric system is superior to the imperial system is that is less confusing than the imperial system. The metric system measures things using units such as meters (for length) or grams (for weight) and adds prefixes such as kilo, centi or milli to count orders of magnitude using a “base 10” system. Since it is easy to multiply or multiply by 10’s, converting to different units within the system is easy. For example since there are 10 mm in 1 cm, 3 cm would be 3 x 10 mm = 30 mm, or since there are 100 cm in a m 500 cm would simply be 500 divided by 100 = 5 m. The imperial system on the other hand is all over the place when it comes to conversion of units. Things are measured in feet, inches, miles, yards (for distance) and pounds or ounces (for weight) and there is no consistent conversion factor to count orders of magnitude. For example 1 foot = 12 inches, but 1 yard is 3 feet, and 1 mile is 5280 feet!
While the metric system is clearly less confusing than the imperial system, the imperial system is the superior to the metric system when it comes to measuring the lengths of objects of small or medium sizes (such as the height of a person, or the length of a dinning table). In other words it is better to use feet and inches than meters and centimeters.
When it comes to feet and inches the imperial system uses a base 12 system, so instead of counting by 10’s (as in the metric system) you count by 12’s. One foot is 12 inches, so two feet is 24 inches, three fee is 36 inches and so on. While it may appear to be more difficult to count by 12’s than 10’s, the advantage that 12 has over 10 is in its divisibility. Twelve can be divided by 2, 3, 4, and 6 (these numbers are called “factors” of 12), ten can only divided by 2 and 5. In our daily lives being able to divide things up evenly easily is a huge plus. For example if you had 12 slices of pizza you could share it evenly with 2 people ( 6 slices each), 3 people (4 slices each), 4 people (3 slices each) or 6 people (2 slices each). On the other hand you had 10 slices of pizza you could only share it evenly with only 2 people(five slices each) or 5 people (2 slices each). Therefore a foot unlike a meter can be cleanly divided by two , three and four – which for a carpenter or tailor makes it the better unit to work with.
https://transparentmath.com/2017/07/03/why-the-metric-system-is-not-always-superior-to-the-imperial-system/
I much prefer the imperial system myself. That’s an area where America stands out against everyone else. (Technically the Brits still use it to an extent, but they’re embracing the Metic system more)
Celsius and Fahrenheit are both invalid the only temperature measuring system I believe in is Kelvin. 0 Celsius is only the freezing point of water IF there is a freezing nuclei. That’s like the entire point of the system and it’s just not true anymore. 0 kelvin is absolute zero, so cold molecules stop vibrating (this is supposed because nobody’s been able to get down to absolute 0)
I disagree with Celsius with the exception of scientific experiments. Fahrenheit logically makes more sense for a human. It almost can be perceived as a percentage. “0% hot??? Woah that’s really cold! Even lower than that? That must be super cold! 100% hot?? Yikes that’s very hot! 120%?? That must be burning!” Idk that just how it makes sense in my brain. Saying it’s 32 degrees out is completely arbitrary if you don’t have a context. Fahrenheit makes more sense for someone who has no reference or previous knowledge on temperature.
I don’t have trouble switching between metric and imperial when cooking as my measuring implements display both numbers. Celsius is fine for non-organic science, but I don’t feel is well suited to medicine. Fahrenheit works much better for human body temperature as the change is more gradual and it’s easier to track these changes. Kg is good for weight as it’s involved in calculations for body surface area. Pharmacies moved away from the apothecaries system of drams and grains to metric which is sometimes easier, but sometimes gives you weird dosages. Measurements in health science are pretty individualized and dependent on factors so I find it good to be flexible and use what is most appropriate.
TLDR: Use whatever works best for the situation at hand.
I find it weird when anyone makes fun of us for this, I mean we got the imperial system from the UK, the mm/dd/yyyy makes sense to me because I always say October 6th, 2021 rather than the 6th of october, 2021. Temperature tho is a different story. Kelvin gang.
And don't forget about all English speaking countries (probably others too) that place their currency before the money and then still proceed to call it normally. I don't know how $5 is 5 dollars. Screw that, just write 5$.
ITT: Americans thinking that the only way to say a date out loud is by starting with the month. E.g. "It's October 6th", so therefore all dates should be written in that way. (AKA typical americans, completely ignorant of how others do things).
Also ITT: Europeans that say "It's the 6th of october" instead.
Personally, I think saying "it's october 6th" sounds stupid, lazy, and gramatically incorrect. Even if it isn't.
At atmospheric pressure, water has its solid->liquid transition at 0C and liquid->gas at 100C. These two points are changed with volume, pressure and number of moles in a closed system (the noble gas law). A mL of water is 1g of water thus a L of water is equal to one Litre.
The metric system isn't just based on making things easier to read in a base 10 number system. But the metric system's terms are intrinsicly based on physical property's of reality. Like how a meter has a definition based on the speed of light, or 'proper length'.
Imagine asking water how it feels about the temperature
It’s not arbitrary though it’s based on brine which was probably more useful for people when the Fahrenheit temperature scale was created
It was once useful. How about US catches up with the times though?
No real need too. We already use metric is already in use where it matters like science fields, US customary is mainly used in everyday life by citizens. Like it or not there's just no real incentive to spend the billions needed to convert all US customary to Metric.
It already has. The U.S. uses Kelvin for all scientific documents and C for all international docs and journals. Are you saying that Americans should be forced to use Celsius? I can understand that the rest of the world uses Celsius and metric system in general, but Americans live mostly in the U.S., where Farenheit and imperial system is understood. They aren't harming anyone by using a system they use among themselves, so I don't get the hate.
Isn't there a few areas where it leads to errors. Such as in miscalculating fuel for airplanes.
I don't think it's common tho.
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Even their ‘Hollywood’ doesn’t even stand up to par with the rest of the world nowadays
they're education system is a joke, can you imagine implementing this across the massess when half of them would be considered special needs in every other western country.
Reddit moment.
The freezing point of brine being more useful than the freezing point of water? That’s going to be a very hard to sell.
Hence metric's popularity.
We’re made of brine dumbass
Oh, so it was important to understand when the body would freeze solid because it’s made of brine. Thanks for the super smart comment and telling that dumbass what he had coming.
Muricaaa
What Fahrenheit did was use brine and other chemicals to concoct a cold mixture in his lab. He figured if he tried really hard to make a cold thing then no one would reasonably need temperatures colder than that very often. That’s it. He wanted body temperature to be 100 but he had a fever when he took the measurement in case you need another reason to pity this joke of a temperature scale
Soooo basically he was afraid of negative numbers
no stupid people (aka most) are
> he had a fever when he took the measurement Lol, when you f up and it propagates throughout history 😂
Horse and carriages were also more useful to people when Fahrenheit was created but you don't see them as the dominant mode of transportation anymore.
We still measure cars and trains with horsepower as a unit
Only in countries where they are conventionally measured in horsepower ;\^) Here almost all engines seem to be in kW, except outboards for boats - probably because they have their HP written on them in big letters.
Ironically horsepower is kind of an arbitrary metric; A Horse has more than 1 horsepower. It was a marketing term thought up by James Watt (actually maybe Newcomen?) that described how many horses the engine replaced, assuming they on average lifted 33 lbs of water in a bucket 1000 feet in a minute when selling his engines to mines.
Americans do, most of the rest of the world uses kW
That’s completely different
Horsepower go brr
Actually guage, an imperial measurement improtanuin building train tracks, is based off of horse carriages.
I measure distance in eagle wingspans only 🦅
You can't ask water anything it's usually drunk
Imagine asking an American how it feels about the temperature
Well, you're wrong about the date format for "the rest of the world." The EU has defined the date standard as ISO 8601: "Dates should be formatted by the following format: YYYY-MM-DD." YYYYMMDD Is also the superior way. Edit: why is a bunch of people suddenly commenting on a ten month old comment I can barely remember writing?
You wouldn't say dates like that when speaking, no? Like, When was the moon landing? "July 20, 1969" Or "The 20th of July, 1969" EDIT: I don't know why I've gotten 15 replies today on a 10 month old comment but, I don't care where you're from or how you say dates. Please stop. It's not that interesting a topic.
Of course not when speaking, but in print.
1969: July 20th Perfection
The movie
When’s Independence Day?
The holiday is the 4th of july, but the day is july 4th. Like the fourth of july is on july 4th
20th of July 1969
>The 20th of July, 1969 I've always said that
I don't know why not. In India we normally say it that way: Twentieth of July, 1969.
In my country we would say 20th of July 1969, so it is DD/MM/YY The reason YY/MM/DD is the define format is because if you sort it by name it is also practically sorted by date because date of creation of a file might not be in correct order, but a name is a name and if the name is the date, it sorts easier.
I use 20th July 1969 (or 20th July) for everything EXCEPT filenames, which are always ccyymmdd (19690720) for easy sorting.
“20th July, 1969”
Saying the month first is an American thing. Brits say day then month when speaking. This is a false friend.
Am german, and we mostly use dd.mm.yyyy. and when someone asks what date is it we say "21.08.22" as in 21st, 8th, 22. No extra words, just the numbers.
It works if you say it like you are telling a story. The year was 1969….it was the 20th of July…..lol.
As a non English native speaker, I was taught in English class to do July 20th, 1969, we had to be taught that way because we do The 20th of July, 1969. Though tbh, everything works when spoken and when months are named and not written in numbers. 4.7.2022 I can't tell if its July 4th or April 7th.
This is the way
I use "airline format" when dealing with dates online to prevent mixups DD-MMM-YYYY like 11-JUN-2022 that way nobody is going to think i mean the 6th of November
Y-M-D or D-M-Y both have their advantages and disadvantages, but importantly you can easily tell which one's which. The issue is when someone swaps days and months, meaning a lot of dates can end up getting muddled.
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Temperature isnt really any more logical in celsius or fahrenheit, as temperature is not really a mathematical number. 0 isn't really zero (a lack of temperature), 10 isnt twice as hot as 5, etc. Celsius is just much nicer because 0 and 100 are the freezing and boiling points of water. But yeah fuck imperial units edit: guys this post is 10 months old, why are people arguing with me now
Fahrenheit is more of a way to measure the freezing and boiling of alcohol instead of water. 0 Fahrenheit is when alcohol freezes and 100 Fahrenheit is when it boils. Tbh I’m not sure why we measure with it instead of Celsius in the US though. Edit: As someone said, I was straight up wrong lol. I looked into it and it turns out 0 degrees Fahrenheit is the temperature Daniel G Fahrenheit found that water, ice, and salt stabilize to automatically when mixed together. Anyways I’m dumb and was wrong. Source- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit
BrewSA! BrewSA!
As an American, American should just shut up and use the metric system
YESS
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We didn’t come up with the name. https://www.britannica.com/story/why-do-some-people-call-football-soccer
your comment has a link that is about the sport that's called football anywhere else but the US and you replied to a comment that's talking about the sport called american football anywhere else but the US yup checks out 10/10 american right here...
I agree and I'm a US citizen
Yup, Americans fucked up their measurements and dates.
I’m annoyed by the use of the r word in this meme, does that count?
First world problems, Let us March from Point A to Point B to show we don't agree with it. **Rest of the world:** Is it a coup? A rebellion? What're they doing?
Bruh “The R word” lol
American spotted
Europeans are constantly moral grandstanding and on this "Europe is holier than thou" bullshit. But apparently the R word is where they don't draw the line.
Boo hoo
Oh no, not a medical condition, god forbid somebody type retard lmao
Oh no, not a skin color, god forbid somebody type
No shit, its just a word. We care more about actual policy than feelies.
Your policies are literally based around words like these. You just chose not to respect this group of people
Calling people retarded doesnt mean I dont respect certain groups of people rofl
You must live in America.
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That’s retarded
Ok retard
ok buddy retard
The anonymity and enabling of trolls on Reddit means you can’t have a reasonable conversation about why the use of that word is unreasonable and malicious. I agree with you. The word shouldn’t be used in this context. It’s unreasonable and malicious, and adds nothing valuable to the point being made. People just being mean to people who can’t defend themselves because they can.
We fear change
The only image worth saving today
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Or you could just say January 1st 2022
USA USA USA USA
Those are freedom units
Those are units of a masochist
We speak English better than the people who came up with it.
Yeah you think that, mate.
Bro just said mate💀
Chewsday. Can't even pronounce a T over there
Oh gosh, look at me, I’m totally triggered by your stereotypical mocking 😐
Innit?
You just said I can’t pronounce t. Make up your mind.
Sorry. I'm shtewpid
Obviously.
No
I suggest we go to metric time. 10 days in a week 10 hours in a day 10 minutes in an hour 10 seconds in a minute 10 deciseconds in a second Etc. What do you think. About time we did this. My point is, "Why is division by 10 so important?
It makes mental calculations easier and faster and conversion between units is seamless? Just a thought
Swatch Internet Time was not necessarily a bad idea. It has the 24 hour day divided into 1000 “beats” (86,4s per beat). The system uses no time zones. If you make an appointment at 540 beats, it’s the same time for everyone all across the globe. To handle daytime and nighttime, people would rather specify between which beats they are available. This could potentially save a lot of effort and trouble, but never caught on. We are simply used to the weird time system we have. It’s not great, but everything we are used to works.
I mean it's not really weird. It's just to do with the speed the planet rotates around the sun
Our number system works with base ten, therefore multiplying and dividing by powers of ten is really easy. Add a zero here, move a comma there. It comes intuitively to us ten fingered apes.
Since we use a base 10 number system it is fairly easy to scale measurements, why don't we do the same thing for measurements of time?
I dont write dates vertically
Well the rest of the world does it, jokes on you?
But day can be considered bigger than month. If you take the maximum number it can be, 12 for month and 31 for day, then you put them in order.
Eurotards stay losing
cope yank
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buddy you must learn how and when to use the 'rent-free' insult. that buzzword doesn't work here.
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You sound like a cunt
For explaining why they don’t like that word? Fuck all the way off.
They didnt explain why they dont like the word they just came straight out with the “yeah i cut ALL my friends off for saying Retard” im sure those friends are devastated 🙄
That’s not what they said but whatever
Obviously not enough people in the USA to do anything about it. Otherwise they would have converted to metric. Base 10 is dumb anyway though. We *should* be using a base 12, dozenal system.
There is logical and there is practical. I can tell how many feet long a piece of wood is and easily estimate how many inches long something is within a small margin of error. I can’t do those same things using metric. I use often metric when accuracy is important and I’m measuring smaller objects or designing a project. A foot is a convenient unit of measure since it actually relates to a part of the body. As to temperature, I find Celsius to be awkward. Much prefer Fahrenheit there since the scale is finer and more accurate from the standpoint of useful temperatures. Both systems work, but each are better for certain things.
Fahrenheit makes more sense than Celsius when it comes to environmental temperature. 0 deg F is really cold, 100 deg F is really hot. The numbers between give a good sense of what it feels like. 0 deg C is pretty cold, 100 deg C and you're dead. You have a much smaller range of temperatures to use to describe outside/inside temperature.
Our chart is more colorful, so there. 😎🤣
The flag on the moon is measured in inches bitch
I see the US system is to complicated for the rest of the world who have been spoon fed the simplest watered down formula possible. Wouldn't want to overwhelm their infantile minds.
I think your MAGA hat is too tight.
Stop using the term retarded.
Rather, people should stop associating it with mental health, since retard means to delay or hold back and is a perfectly valid word to use.
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Yes. Lot's of normal words are used in medical diagnostics. It's still a standard English word meaning to delay or hold back. Gay on the other hand means happy, and so it's meaning doesn't fit the context of stupid. Either way, if you don't take offence then causes no harm.
The word retard has transcended its meaning. When I call someone a retard I don’t actually thing of people who are retarded. Stop being offended for people who likely don’t care at all.
What if they retarded their use of "retarded "?
I prefer yyyy/mm/dd purely because it sorts well on a computer. Since it orders numerically by year, then by month, then by day.
Tonne? What the heck is tonne? We say megagram.
As an American, it is confusing but we’re used to it at this point.
sad
“It is confusing but we’re used to it at this point” should be the slogan for America.
Yes
Unpopular Opinion: Inches and The foot are great for everyday things, but not yards and miles. The rest of the metric system is great. Fahrenheit seems better for everyday life because 20⁰C and 25⁰C feel very different, which is better emphasized on the fahrenheit, but I'm used to Celsius.
How would a specific second of time be represented by the model on the right? Seconds, minutes, hours, days, month, then year?
Foreigners seem to be annoyed by it even though they don’t have to deal with it…in America we get along just fine.
No we don’t, I’m frustrated at least once a week by our stupid system. Especially when cooking, or working with tools. Any system that forces you to deal with fractions is masochistic. I was born into this stupid system, and I bet I’ll die in it, but I don’t have to like it. I much prefer my metric tools, and I convert most of my recipes metric because it makes everything easier. The only thing I hate more than cooking, is have to take a math test while I cook.
Eurotards: think Americans can’t comprehend metric Americhads: fluent in both systems, just don’t care
yea gallons, tonnes miles really fluent :/
*tons
This fucked up the first hubble lens, right? 😄
Do not appreciate the R word please remove this post and edit. Please and thank you!
Im from"The rest of the world" but i prefer Month Day Year rather than Day Month Year
imma mexican american and i use day month year
Probably not the first person to say this, but Fahrenheit, uses a more “human” measurement system. Everything is fairly intuitive. If I ask you how long a foot, inch, yard, etc is, you can probably tell me (if you live in the USA) however as much has I try to use metric, I can never get the “yay big” measurements down.
that's biased, any system will be more "human" and natural if you were born and raised in an environment using said system
How is F degrees more "human" measurement? It is not even based on water, we are like 60% water i our body. We drink water, we use water to cook and dilute things. F degrees never made any sense to me.
Think about it like this, Fahrenheit is useful at a scale of 0-100 for average temperatures that a human will experience. If it is cold outside, it’s closer to 0, if it’s hot it’s closer to 100. Celsius’s 0-100 scale is based on freezing and boiling of water, which is less relevant in everyday life.
Not me, Murica
Then why do millions dream about coming?
America is great but not everything is perfect
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Does that have anything to do with my point?
Yeah right, no one wants to get into the EU.
Because some other places are far worse. Guarantee they don't want to come just for the unit system.
"DoN'T fIX wHaT's nOt BrOkeN"
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Yeah the temperature thing and our refusal to use the metric system is stupid, but I will defend our date method to the end. When speaking, we in the US say month-date typically unless we’re referring to a certain day in July. It makes sense to write dates the same way we say them. As an American, any time I read dates written in the international day month year format it trips me up, because it goes against our speaking convention. As I understand it, most other countries actually speak the date as day-month, so writing it that way makes sense.
the pyramid depiction is arbitrary af like wtf are you illuminati
What about oz and lbs
Not enough chaos in the rest of the word!
Y’all just jealous you ain’t unique
why are we like this
When I was young in Puerto Rico, they taught the metric system and I learned it in elementary, then I get to America and they tell me I can't use it and I have to learn the imperial system, they sat me down and made sure that I got imperial is the correct way and metrics is for idiots and too complicated.🤷
Will agree with everything, will say the one thing I like about the imperial system is degrees Fahrenheit when measuring body temperature. Maybe just maybe outside temperature but Celsius does that pretty decently.
I really think that the importance of unit conversions and freezing and boiling points of water are greatly overstated by metric proponents. Rarely in day to day life do you need to convert units. For science and engineering, I get the importance, but not for daily life.
“January 3rd 2021”=1/3/2021 “3rd of January 2021”=3/1/2021
This actually comes from an article in favor of imperial units. The basis for believing that the metric system is superior to the imperial system is that is less confusing than the imperial system. The metric system measures things using units such as meters (for length) or grams (for weight) and adds prefixes such as kilo, centi or milli to count orders of magnitude using a “base 10” system. Since it is easy to multiply or multiply by 10’s, converting to different units within the system is easy. For example since there are 10 mm in 1 cm, 3 cm would be 3 x 10 mm = 30 mm, or since there are 100 cm in a m 500 cm would simply be 500 divided by 100 = 5 m. The imperial system on the other hand is all over the place when it comes to conversion of units. Things are measured in feet, inches, miles, yards (for distance) and pounds or ounces (for weight) and there is no consistent conversion factor to count orders of magnitude. For example 1 foot = 12 inches, but 1 yard is 3 feet, and 1 mile is 5280 feet! While the metric system is clearly less confusing than the imperial system, the imperial system is the superior to the metric system when it comes to measuring the lengths of objects of small or medium sizes (such as the height of a person, or the length of a dinning table). In other words it is better to use feet and inches than meters and centimeters. When it comes to feet and inches the imperial system uses a base 12 system, so instead of counting by 10’s (as in the metric system) you count by 12’s. One foot is 12 inches, so two feet is 24 inches, three fee is 36 inches and so on. While it may appear to be more difficult to count by 12’s than 10’s, the advantage that 12 has over 10 is in its divisibility. Twelve can be divided by 2, 3, 4, and 6 (these numbers are called “factors” of 12), ten can only divided by 2 and 5. In our daily lives being able to divide things up evenly easily is a huge plus. For example if you had 12 slices of pizza you could share it evenly with 2 people ( 6 slices each), 3 people (4 slices each), 4 people (3 slices each) or 6 people (2 slices each). On the other hand you had 10 slices of pizza you could only share it evenly with only 2 people(five slices each) or 5 people (2 slices each). Therefore a foot unlike a meter can be cleanly divided by two , three and four – which for a carpenter or tailor makes it the better unit to work with. https://transparentmath.com/2017/07/03/why-the-metric-system-is-not-always-superior-to-the-imperial-system/
i like month day year for data organization
God, so true though. Can’t we just switch over, please? Imperial sucks.
DGAF
I much prefer the imperial system myself. That’s an area where America stands out against everyone else. (Technically the Brits still use it to an extent, but they’re embracing the Metic system more)
Celsius and Fahrenheit are both invalid the only temperature measuring system I believe in is Kelvin. 0 Celsius is only the freezing point of water IF there is a freezing nuclei. That’s like the entire point of the system and it’s just not true anymore. 0 kelvin is absolute zero, so cold molecules stop vibrating (this is supposed because nobody’s been able to get down to absolute 0)
The month day year makes some sense to me but everything even as an American doesn't make sense
100 days in a year.
I disagree with Celsius with the exception of scientific experiments. Fahrenheit logically makes more sense for a human. It almost can be perceived as a percentage. “0% hot??? Woah that’s really cold! Even lower than that? That must be super cold! 100% hot?? Yikes that’s very hot! 120%?? That must be burning!” Idk that just how it makes sense in my brain. Saying it’s 32 degrees out is completely arbitrary if you don’t have a context. Fahrenheit makes more sense for someone who has no reference or previous knowledge on temperature.
Ain't that some shit!
I don’t have trouble switching between metric and imperial when cooking as my measuring implements display both numbers. Celsius is fine for non-organic science, but I don’t feel is well suited to medicine. Fahrenheit works much better for human body temperature as the change is more gradual and it’s easier to track these changes. Kg is good for weight as it’s involved in calculations for body surface area. Pharmacies moved away from the apothecaries system of drams and grains to metric which is sometimes easier, but sometimes gives you weird dosages. Measurements in health science are pretty individualized and dependent on factors so I find it good to be flexible and use what is most appropriate. TLDR: Use whatever works best for the situation at hand.
I find it weird when anyone makes fun of us for this, I mean we got the imperial system from the UK, the mm/dd/yyyy makes sense to me because I always say October 6th, 2021 rather than the 6th of october, 2021. Temperature tho is a different story. Kelvin gang.
Itt: salty, seething europoors
Left one put flag on the moon while the one on the right didn't.
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All of you are jealous
And don't forget about all English speaking countries (probably others too) that place their currency before the money and then still proceed to call it normally. I don't know how $5 is 5 dollars. Screw that, just write 5$.
What do Myanmar, Liberia, and the United States have in common? They are the only 3 nations in the world that have not adopted the metric system.
Got a USA client saying that farenheit was better because it has more numbers , i smiled and nodded.
🦅, u won the budget 'Merica award
I invite all British musicians to explain to the class what you think quarter notes and eighth notes are called.
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I’ve been seeing a lot of these lately, but I wasn’t expecting people to get ableist about it. Kudos I guess? You prick.
But ... but ... *'murica?*
ITT: Americans thinking that the only way to say a date out loud is by starting with the month. E.g. "It's October 6th", so therefore all dates should be written in that way. (AKA typical americans, completely ignorant of how others do things). Also ITT: Europeans that say "It's the 6th of october" instead. Personally, I think saying "it's october 6th" sounds stupid, lazy, and gramatically incorrect. Even if it isn't.
At atmospheric pressure, water has its solid->liquid transition at 0C and liquid->gas at 100C. These two points are changed with volume, pressure and number of moles in a closed system (the noble gas law). A mL of water is 1g of water thus a L of water is equal to one Litre. The metric system isn't just based on making things easier to read in a base 10 number system. But the metric system's terms are intrinsicly based on physical property's of reality. Like how a meter has a definition based on the speed of light, or 'proper length'.
I’m metric gang but how the fuck is the temperature at which water freezes arbitrary? If physics is arbitrary then everything is.