• adeoxymus@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I understand this logic, but since growing up with Celcius I just can’t intuitively convert the numbers. If I find a recipe where the oven needs to be at 350 (or whatever, I don’t know Fahrenheit), I automatically Google or ask ChatGPT to convert 😂

    • 🔍🦘🛎@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      since growing up with Celcius I just can’t intuitively convert the numbers

      Aaaand that’s why Americans don’t want to switch~

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        So Americans reject logic because… feelings?

        Get with the program, every other country historically used different ways of measuring things and eventually managed to make the switch.

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          Yup and that it wouldn’t be that useful for most people. It’d be a huge pain in the ass to reeducate the country too. Fools are proud. As long as the can buy milk they don’t care if it’s in liters or gallons.

          I try to try to remember the conversions, but it’s tricky and tedious. Iirc a mile is about 2.2 kilometers. A foot is shockingly close to 1/3 of a meter. 28°C is 82°F.

          I don’t care for the imperial system, I’m just forced to use it. Empires are bad in all forms.

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          So I was going to say that Fahrenheit has a better range of numbers to know when going from 68 is comfy to 70 is too warm, but 20c to 21c is basically exactly the same. Fuck your logic though, -50f is colder than -50c and that’s all I care about.

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      Also growing up with Celsius, I also don’t have any idea how temperatures in Fahrenheit should feel like. (except that 98°F is the human body temperature?) By the way, please don’t use ChatGPT for math stuff, not even for converting temperatures. It can be really wrong at times.

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      Welcome to the club. I can’t even deal with recipes from other countries because I don’t have a kitchen scale lol