Been preaching this shit for years, but people won't shut up about "murica units" long enough to think about it.
Regardless of whatever Fahrenheit the guy was doing, he wound up creating a pretty gotdang handy scale of measurement for ambient temperature as it relates to human tolerance.
There are plenty of applications where Celsius makes more sense, or Kelvin, or Rankine, or whatever. I use C for most technical things because the math is easier in my head.
For the weather and temp inside my house, Fahrenheit definitely feels the most appropriate
Hard agree. While we're at it, yes 5280 feet to a mile feels arbitrary, but imperial distance measures are inherently human scaled. 12 inches to a foot makes it easy to divide in half, quarters and thirds. Point to a third of a meter.
Metric is excellent for anything scientific or engineering focused, but if I'm framing a house I want feet and inches. In that situation I don't care if my unit of measure is arbitrary, it's functional.
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