Raake

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@Raake

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lorenziniforce
@lorenziniforce

i think my number one ultimate mega pet peeve is Americans coming up with stupid "it just makes sense" justifications for why farenheit is better. No!!!! Water is an important part of daily life on this planet it's a perfectly good thing to base your standards on!!!! 'but 0 is cold and 100 is hot' just substitute the 100 for 40!!!! It's not hard!!!! For the love of the gods standardize!!!!!!!!!!

Raake
@Raake

what makes "0 feels cold, 100 feels hot" even more bullshit is that everyone has different tolerances. not to mention other factors like humidity contributing to how something FEELS... if F wasn't standardized (according to the whims of one person from 300 years ago) cookbooks would be telling you to "preheat the oven until it feels like burning". just! use!! celsius!!!

Raake
@Raake

and don't get me started on distance or volume either!!inches, feet, yards and miles; fluid ounces, cups, pints and gallons can all go in the bin if you ask me. weight doesn't get a full pass either because Why are Ounces Here Too, and What the Fuck is a Stone1 - but at least for that all i've ever really needed to know is that 1 pound =~0.45kg, so i'll let it slide

  1. small stone the weight of a large stone

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Exameter
@Exameter

The only American thing I can think of actually going to bat for is "MDY is in order of what you look up on a calendar for a date in the near future." But like, YMD is also that but still in a logical order. So the best defense of MDY is just "It's like YMD!"

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SomeEgrets
@SomeEgrets

im so bitter about this because i had to do data entry at one point and a bunch of businesses we had invoices etc. from were american

so it was a complete roll of the dice whether i got DMY or MDY, and like, if a form read 04/06/99 what the fuck is that, april or june? now i've gotta stop typing and solve an annoying pedantic mystery

i like YYYY-MM-DD because im a nerd who thinks about formats and ambiguity more than the average person (and i envy them) but at least D/M/Y still maintains significance order, low to high, and is the order you'd write it out in long form

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Raake
@Raake

nevermind having learned that seeing / as the separator usually means it's month first because nowadays browsers/websites sometimes know how to automatically convert that to your local date format - which is cool and all, except i can't always tell/remember if/when they do that!

us Finns exclusively use D.M.Y in writing so i'm biased against year or month first basically everywhere, save for in certain computing applications, where Y/M/D is great for sorting purposes (my only peeve about this is if there are no separators to make it easy to read...)

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alterae
@alterae

agreed on all counts except that (for me, personally, in the most subjective sense possible) 0f is like cold cold and 0c is just barely cold

(i work at a ski area so please do not take my sense of temperature seriously lol)

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irina
@irina

my experience working at the snow was that it didn't matter what temperature it was once it got cold enough to have snow, it mattered if i could see the sunlight

(i was a liftie so standing around in whatever the weather happened to be all day. we did not have cabins)

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effika
@effika

I just don't like thinking about the weather in terms of what % boiling it is. I use it often for most for everything else (thanks science degree for making me actually get used to metric), but I really don't like seeing that it's going to be 35% of boiling soon.

I agree it doesn't make sense, but I'm just whiny about the summer getting hotter and hotter here.

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