• sarmale@lemmy.zip
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    7 days ago

    As an European I never understood what’s wrong with Fahrenheit besides no one else using it. Unlike feet/miles/pounds there is no need to convert them to anything else so… why?

    Water freezing/boiling point being 0 and 100 is neat but nowhere near being fucked like American distance units

    • Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works
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      6 days ago

      Check out Chicago: where you can ask for directions and ‘a couple blocks’ could mean 500 feet or 3/4s of a mile, depending on what part of town you’re in .

      I’ll still take a fairly straightforward grid over the spaghetti road map that many East Coast/European cities have.