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If it was Celsius the sea would be boiling.
Nothing to see here, just making a stew in the ocean.
That's in fact the brain of RDS in the ocean of idiocy.
USA and their fixation with imperial 😂
To be fair it is an American news story about something happening in the US. But it should be proper procedure to write "100 degrees F" or something similar, just to denote the unit being used (adding a parenthesis with the converted C units after the F is too much to ask, I know).
I really wish the US would put Metric numbers in parentheses next to any Imperial numbers. I really want to have a better grasp on metric in my head.
As a nurse in the US, it's a bit silly that we measure in Imperial and then have it converted to Metric for things like drug calculations. We have this awkward mix where we speak about mL in the same sentence as inches and feet.
I now can visualize about how much a few liters is, but still struggle with about how long a few centimeters is. I know Celsius only in reference to body temperature, but STILL have to convert to Fahrenheit if the Celsius reading is abnormal. Anything really above 38°C or below 36°C, and I start looking at Fahrenheit because I want a better understanding of how much trouble my patient is in. It's rather silly and inefficient
US Customary. Temperature is the same as in Imperial, but fluid volume isn't and the survey foot was different up until January 1st 2023 when the government changed to use the international foot.
TIL there's an international foot. Which is probably only used by the US, I suppose?
Yeah, and muricans wont admit their own issues