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.

  • gramie@lemmy.ca
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    5 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).