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I was going to write what you just wrote, so I agree. However, I also think to some extent the US is changing, it's just happening very slowly. I think a lot
by derbOac 4y ago
I was going to write what you just wrote, so I agree.
However, I also think to some extent the US is changing, it's just happening very slowly.
I think a lot of commerce and travel is part of it. If you buy something designed and produced overseas, and you have to get parts for it, it will be in metric. Lots of imports are in metric, if you travel you deal with metric, and so forth and so on. I've been to US hospitals that only keep charts and communicate in metric as a matter of policy, etc.
The only remaining things in the US that are hard for me to intuitively deal with are speed when driving and temperature, and temperature I'm starting to kind of fuzzily intuit.
- hattmall 4y agoTemperature should be easy. Don't try to convert it. Just know that it's based around people instead of water. Anything out of the bounds 0-100 is extreme and to be avoided. Maybe it's just so intuitive having grown up with it, but it just seems to make perfect sense that the numbers are based around how you feel in relation to heat.
- jb1991 4y agoThe idea that things are "out of bounds" for "people" up to 100 C is a little strange. Try stepping outside when it's only half that temperature outside, or even just one-third. It's much simpler than that, and has nothing to do with people; it's the range between freezing water and boiling water, and that's it.
- SketchySeaBeast 4y agoI think when they said "Anything out of the bounds 0-100 is extreme and to be avoided" they meant in regard to Farenheit.