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

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    11 months ago

    I agree with the exception of temperature. Fahrenheit is superior for non-scientific purposes. It’s more specific.

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      11 months ago

      I can count on zero hands the times i have needed daily temperature to a greater precision than 1C.

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        11 months ago

        I think it’s more that Fahrenheit captures the range of temperatures that humans experience from “very cold” to “very hot” in a rough 0-100 scale, whereas Celsius’s 0-100 is instead based on the phase changes of water, which doesn’t actually overlap with weather temperatures very well, being “decently cold” to “you are basically a burning corpse”.