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[–]Node 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

the standard that's preferred by most of the world

Although they're falling rapidly, we've had higher standards here in the US. Our human-scale measurement systems and other high standards led the United States to do pretty well for ourselves on the world stage.

I'm personally fine with other countries hanging on to their dystopic standards. But now that American Exceptionalism has faded as the mud-flood continues, the effects of Fahrenheit are little more than a historical relic at this point.

Still, giving up Fahrenheit now would be like the UK turning moslem, or France becoming a negroid country.

[–]LarrySwinger2 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Don't be silly.

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There's simply no defence for using Celsius outside of a laboratory.