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> Maybe it helps to push for Murica to finally adapt SI units. Nitpick: Celsius is not an SI unit. Answering the substantive point: it’d be nice if we switche
by School-Cotton 3y ago
> Maybe it helps to push for Murica to finally adapt SI units.
Nitpick: Celsius is not an SI unit.
Answering the substantive point: it’d be nice if we switched to SI units (plus Celsius); personally my phone is already set to display those and I wish we’d join the rest of the world and do standard stuff. However, I think it’s extremely unlikely to ever happen. The deadlocked US political system makes it impossible to enact any reform on any topic that anyone can create controversy about, and that includes switching to international standard units.
- Moru 3y agoIt's on the way :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_Stat...
- School-Cotton 3y agoSome stuff in the US is metric, and some isn’t, but as far as I can tell the situation of metric units in daily life is static and not changing much.
- katbyte 3y agoAnd it was ok the way and if regan hadn’t canceled it America would have switched around the same time Canada did
- rendaw 3y agoPer wikipedia > The degree Celsius is ... one of two temperature scales used in the International System of Units (SI), the other being the Kelvin scale. Edit: To expand, within SI Celsius is defined as a derived unit, and Kelvin is a base unit.
- School-Cotton 3y agoIt seems you’re absolutely right and my nitpick was not correct.