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Yesterday, the temperature was in the 80's. (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by ParabolicMotion to c/mildlyinteresting

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[–] ben16w 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm really hoping that's in Fahrenheit

[–] ParabolicMotion -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nah, really?!?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

At least they were nice about it and didn't make some colonial ass slur about "civilized society"

[–] ParabolicMotion 2 points 5 months ago

It wouldn’t be colonial, though. Britain didn’t start its switch to the metric system until 1965. The colonists wouldn’t have been using metric, seeing as they came from Britain.

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/mo/st-louis/weather/2023/02/20/the-change-to-celsius-in-u-s--remains-stalled--here-s-why