• HootinNHollerin@slrpnk.net
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    3 months ago

    As a mechanical design engineer in America having dual systems creates unnecessary complexity and frustration and cost for me all day, every day. I full force embrace switching to metric

    • WashedOver@lemmy.ca
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      9 months ago

      I ended up on this last year as I was exploring the South West. I found it confusing even as a Canadian.

      I then later was confusion when Google Maps told me to go 80 on Hwy 10 in Texas once I came up from Big Bend NP. I thought the GPS was confused. 80 kms on the highway in the US? It was then I realized I wasn’t in Oregon anymore with their 60 mph highways. Texas goes fast and even 80 mph isn’t enough for most people. Even the single lane highways with construction workers was 65 mph work zones in Texas.

      It was the most amount of road kill I’ve ever seen in all my travels. I think at one stage a herd of goats must of tried to cross the highway based on the carnage I came across. I finally understood the reason for the huge bumpers on the front of trucks in Texas now.

    • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      “Fuck me it’s hot today”

      “Yeah it’s at least four washing machines Celsius bro”

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    While we are at it, let’s all (as in the entire planet) switch to 24hour UTC and the YYYY.MM.DD date format.

  • Philharmonic3@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Look I get it, but also, I like fahrenheit and miles. They are more intuitive and closer to the ‘feeling’. 100 degrees is really hot. 100 mph is really fast. Maybe that’s my own bias from growing up with it though

    • Hubi@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Yeah, I think it’s mostly just a familiarity thing. To me 0°C is cold af, 10°C is chilly, 20°C is nice and 30°C is hot. 100 km/h is fast but not really fast, though I’m probably biased in this regard from regularly driving on the Autobahn lol

      • businessfish@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        9 months ago

        exactly! whenever anyone says imperial units are “more intuitive” and better reflect “how it feels to humans”, i can only think: obviously, you grew up with it. that’s what you know.

        no matter what measurement system you were raised on, it will feel intuitive to you and reflect how you as a human experience the world because you are used to measuring things in those units. having said that, i’d much rather we used metric if for nothing else than the ease of unit conversion.