We’re taught both metric and US customary units in school. I prefer metric for most things, to the point I have a metric-only tape measure among other things.

However, I’ll die on the hill that Fahrenheit is superior for ambient air temperature. 0 degrees to 100 degrees neatly encompasses the range of average surface temperatures seen throughout the year in the contiguous US.

  • Quilotoa
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    2 days ago

    They are an admission that the U.S. market is large. 99 % of the world’s countries using Celcius is a blatant admission that celcius is more useful.