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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 33 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 33 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Just start being that pedantic asshole that people hate, and insist on using it. When someone asks what the temperature is, give it to em in c and make them do the conversion.

I set all my stuff to metric years ago and use it pretty much exclusively. I don't actually make other people convert, I do it for em. But still.

[–] hallettj@leminal.space 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I use metric temperature when I talk to my kids. Now they give me a hard time when I give them a Fahrenheit value! Keeps me honest I guess. I've also got my oldest using a 24 hour clock.

[–] luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I never understood why people get their panties in a twist when I use 24h times. I get that it's confusing if I drop the colon and just write 1854, but 18:54 isn't that hard to figure out, is it?

Edit: Corrected 25h to 24h, thanks to MindTraveller for ~~mocking~~ pointing out my error

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

I'm never going to get used to twenty five hour times.

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 months ago

Temperature was the first thing that really clicked for me, and the only one I never have to think about to translate, I just "know" what the temperature is both. I learned it by thinking of it as percentages. 0 is freezing, 0% of boiling. 100 is boiling, 100% of boiling. Lol. 30-40% of boiling is hot, and pretty good for a bath. Haha

[–] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Cook in metric and use a scale!

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 3 months ago

Bake in metric and rejoice when recipes actually work!

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

wait you don’t use scales when cooking?????

[–] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 6 points 3 months ago

From what I can tell Americans used to use scales for dry measures (in ounces) but somewhere along the line, they switched to volume measures for everything.

As a Canadian, it’s really frustrating because often will get the American versions of UK cookbooks here which are both not metric and not weights.

I enjoy my Australian cookbooks with metric weights.

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah, it's sort of rare outside of, like, foodies and and YouTubers to use weight for cooking. We switched to it about a decade back, and it's been amazing. That's actually what got me to switch to metric for just about everything.

[–] Beaver@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Also state your height in cm.

[–] toothpaste_sandwich@feddit.nl 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Us metric people usually say it in meters. I'm one meter 86.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Leave off the word "metre" and it doesn't matter whether you're using metres or cm. You're "one eighty-six". Is that a lazy way of saying "one [hundred and] eighty-six", quite common when talking about numbers in the hundreds, or the lazy way of saying "one [metre] eighty-six [centimetres]", a common shorthand similar to shortening "six [feet] five [inches]"? The answer is it doesn't matter!

[–] fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Unless you’re reaaaally small

[–] toothpaste_sandwich@feddit.nl 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm one eighty six... kilometers!

[–] JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago

How do you manage to avoid the NSA satellites hitting your head?

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 months ago

I'm American and that's how I've started giving my height. I'm 191.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I’ve been doing that. I’m noticing it working. People around me may not like it, but they’ve figured out about how much a meter is

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 months ago

It works pretty good, and you eventually you figure out which of your friends don't actually like you! Lmao