We’re taught both metric and US customary units in school. I prefer metric for most things, to the point I have a metric-only tape measure among other things.

However, I’ll die on the hill that Fahrenheit is superior for ambient air temperature. 0 degrees to 100 degrees neatly encompasses the range of average surface temperatures seen throughout the year in the contiguous US.

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    7 days ago

    Imperial system (or whatever the US system is called ) should go away. Let’s all just one standard.

    Unfortunately, since I’m from the US, I only really know this one, and it’s hard to switch when nothing else has switched. I’d put up with the pain of switching though.

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      6 days ago

      Sadly, the US system is not the same as imperial. As far as I know the main difference is the gallon.

      1 gal. Imp. = 1.201 gal. U.S.

      I also hate having lb.f. and lb.m (pounds force and pounds mass), which have different units and at sea level are different by a factor of about 32).