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

submitted 2 years ago by ParabolicMotion@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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[–] ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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[–] ParabolicMotion@lemmy.world [S] 2 points 2 years 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

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