Imagine a world where freezing was -32 degrees, and boiling was 212 degrees, instead of the infinitely more logical 0 & 100 degrees.
That world is here in the U.S. Don't forget to bring your own healthcare, we don't do that here.
@shawnp0wers Lately I've been trying to immerse myself in metric (have weather reports default to it, use it for measurements/temps when brewing beer) so that I can develop a better intuitive sense of it.
Many of my coworkers are not in the US so I try to share measurements in metric when chatting with them to be considerate.
My son is currently learning fraction math in school and I realized the primary practical use for it is dealing with silly Imperial measurements.
@kyle It's temperature that just kills me. The non-linear conversion is so difficult for my brain. I STILL have to mentally compare what a temperature means in Fahrenheit in order to grok the "feeling"
@shawnp0wers That is exactly why I set my weather app to Celsius. I'm slowly (I've been doing this for over a year) developing an intuitive sense for it. I still don't think in Celsius, but I'm having to switch back to Fahrenheit to understand temperatures less.
@shawnp0wers Basically I set 0, 10, 20, and 30C as mental guideposts with their relative Fahrenheit equivalents and use them as reference points for readings between the posts.
@kyle @shawnp0wers I use every 5 C point since F increases by 9 for each.