Not listing alternate units second, not converted on screen, not called “freedom units” and not hiding behind the excuse of “most our audience is in the US”

Mostly thinking YT channels like Wendover, Bluejay, sometimes Practical Engineering and even some European ones like TLDR News

The difference between a meter and yard is less than that of a measured vs “eyeballed” yard and everybody knows what 0 C and 100 C are so the learning curve is also massively (by at least 50 kg) exaggerated

  • lqdrchrd@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 months ago

    Disagree, I am from a non-us country and live in the US. Most people here genuinely do not have any idea what a centigrade or meter are, because they do not use them. For a content creator, you want your audience to be as broad as possible, so you can attract more views, and alienating so many people for a petty reason like ‘my arbitrary system is better’ (even if it is!) is a bad choice.