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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Americans do understand Celsius, although it is unfortunately not as commonly used for weather/room temperature as Fahrenheit

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

As a Canadian who spent a few years of my youth in Australia: I can definitely confirm.

I spent most of my ozzy summers in a black hoodie for some god forsaken reason, and I also wear shorts in winter occasionally....

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The easy but not quite right conversion from C to F is to double it, then add 30.

F to C is subtract 30 and divide by 2.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've always learned 32, not 30

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Unpopular opinion time; the US already uses metric/Celsius where it matters; in science, engineering and the military. Where it doesn't matter, we use a weird hybrid system that makes intuitive sense to us and is accordingly perfectly functional and doesn't need to be changed.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I always wear shorts. 50f/10c isnt gonna stop me.

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