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[–] Squirrel@thelemmy.club 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Ah, the "human scale" fahrenheit argument.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Not really, no. Some things are best for one thing, others are best for another, and Fahrenheit is ridiculous under all circumstances.

[–] thecrotch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

That's also the argument for metric, scaling by 10's is easy for us to calculate because we have 10 fingers