Post #1649173
2026-04-24 10:06 UTC
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@panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2026-04-24 11:18
I had an American explain “well you just know that 68 is long sleeve warm, 80 is shorts” or something, as if people cannot memorize that 18 is chilly and 21/22 is usual room temperature, 26 is shorts. The only thing I dislike like about Celsius is that my thermostat supports both, but doesn’t allow half degrees Celsius, so it provides less granular control in Celsius than if you set it to Fahrenheit.
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@GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone 2026-04-24 13:53
Most metric units are designed around water in some way. Very easy to convert to different units because of this. 1mL of water is equal to 1g of water which is equal to 1 cubic cm of water, for example.
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@imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-24 12:37
And weight also revolves around water. 1L of water is 1KG which is 1000cm^3^ whereas 1cm^3^ is 1g. Super easy to calculate things. Edit: correction
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@Soggy@lemmy.world 2026-04-24 21:09
*at sea level, assuming pure water It's intuitive with respect to water. Applying it to anything else is exactly the same as the Fahrenheit scale: you associate various things with numbers.