[knoebber]

we don't want to: 12 is more divisible than 10

[brink]

I prefer Fahrenheit too.

I don't care that 0°C is freezing for water, and 100°C is boiling for water. I am not water, I am a human. I would rather have a system that is human-centric, even if it is "arbitrary". 0°F is about as cold as you can go outside comfortably with a decent coat, and if it's 100°F, that's about the limit of what humans can tolerate too. If it's 100°C outside, you're dead, it's useless to daily experience, and to me, daily experience is far more important.

[nemo44x]

> I don't care that 0°C is freezing for water, and 100°C is boiling for water.

The best part is that isn't even true at different elevations. It makes no sense as a reference point for many people that live at higher elevations. What a weird thing to base a system of measurement on since it isn't constant.

[zeitgeistcowboy]

Also, something I didn't know for a long time. There are exactly 180 degrees F between freezing and boiling by design. Half a circle. That's pretty cool!

[timbit42]

I find knowing water freezes at 0C helpful as that's about when roads become icy. Also, I live near sea level.

[zeitgeistcowboy]

This. The U.S. measurement systems work pretty well! And, we use metric where metric works well. The U.S. systems are sized to daily life and are based on 12 or powers of 2, which you could argue are more fundamental bases of measurement than 10. I never hear people argue for a 10 hour day.

[trgn]

Metric system sucks for day2day measuring.

[GalenErso]

I have no difficulty estimating sizes and weights in kilometers, meters and centimeters, in tons, kilograms or grams, or in assessing the weather in celsius.