I'm aware, but it's more fun this way.

you've got me, I don't know what C° is, I only know °C

For those who don’t know the quick and dirty conversion it’s double it and add 30. So both temps are ~50F and ~90F

Im one of the few people in America that uses C unironically

FYI this is like 283 and 303 kelvin

Does everyone ask you "whats that in Fahrenheit"?

What is that in Rankine?

Do Canadians also don't know why they did this as kids

if you been in stem in the US, you would use metric. people get wierd when you say kg, instead of lbs, or m/KM instead of miles.

You do realize that we're not ignorant to the metric system, right? Anyone with even the slightest interest in science and/or computing knows what celsius is.

Now that you pointed it out, this annoys me more than people who put the currency sign after the amount.

Welcome to Europa were we do exactly that, as the placement of the currency symbol is a locale thing not a universal.

You are one of the good ones..

Yeah I know, it drives me crazy.

It's also annoying when Europeans swap the comma and decimal on currency amounts too, especially given that you don't do that when writing sentences. Few things more infuriating than seeing an amount written out like 2.999,95€! Where are your manners!?

I dont know why that annoys me. It does annoy me but it shouldn't because at least it has a logic to it.

£2 Is spoken "two pounds" not "pound two"

To me putting it first feels funny. Euro 100, instead of 100 euros. While writing it you need to remember to put the symbol before writing the amount. Funny thing

American civil engineers still use a lot of customary units. 💀

USAian defaultism is always hilarious

509.4 and 545.4 °R respectively

Less quick and dirty is double it, take off 10% and add 32. So both temperatures are exactly 50°F and 86°F

manners? Where is your freedom, as you took that notation (0,000.00) from your british overlords.

I can't help that I was born here. FWIW I'm not a blind patriot, I just have autism.

Well like I said to the other person, it's not a "I think the US is superior" thing; very much the opposite. I simply have autism. (ADHD too but that's not relevant here.)

Where are your manners!?

That's alright, but "Where are your manners!?" comes off a bit hostile. But in any case, have a nice day.

I see, that's understandable. We all have pet-peeves. Mine is the date format in the US that has spread month-day-year. Most of Europe is day-month-year and it's very confusing when people start adopting US formats because they watch so much stuff from the US.

Where I live we...just use comma. So 2999,95. No reason to add useless separators in the middle, and if we do for clarity sake, we use space (2 999,95).

This is gonna irk you further, isn't it...? xD

That's not less quick and dirty that's clean and true.

IMO any date standard other than ISO 8601 is wrong too. Year-Month-Date makes the most sense from a chronological standpoint. Also makes sorting files by date easier.

We use, if needed, apostrophes or upticks. 2'999,95. No danger of messing up between . and , that way.

Also let's just wait until that person learns that not every country separates into blocks of 3 and how many options of mixing and matching there are in use.

Don't worry I'm just being cheeky. I inserted that bit to keep the comment lighthearted.

Something tells me that ISO was created to make programming easier. Time/date stuff on computers are a menace in general.

Australians totally wear shorts all the way down to 0 degrees.

Separators aren't useless; they help greatly in reading large numbers.

One of my favorite things about Lemmy is how many of us are in the autism/ADHD neurotribe, or at least have an understanding about it. We can read your response and be like, "Oh, okay. Yeah, I get where you're coming from" and roll along, without the need for senseless hostility.

Just another day, another misinterpretation - we've all been there. Carry on.

Just use Clicks. Then people will thank you for your service.

Yeah 10° isn't that cold, shit I've worn shorts when it's 10 °F

There's a lot of jackets in November with 20° weather, at least in Melbourne - I got so many chuffed looks for wearing a T-shirt in cloudy weather

Heatwaves in London are strange. You see a few people outside in light sweaters. It's like they don't know what to do. It's like they don't own t-shirts

It's not just Americans that use the comma as a spacer and a period for a decimal

Is because with it being before, you get to know that the number is for a currency immediately, instead of finding out it's a currency afterwards

Yup

Kiwis too, on the south island while wearing jandals in June.

I always wear long sleeved shirts, because I burn very quickly and don't want skin cancer and I really dislike applying sunscreen all the time.

Do you also say random words in foreign languages and then explain that "ライブラリー" means "biblioteca"?

RFC3339 is also acceptable

Thanccs :3

No but sometimes but my vocabulary randomly and sometimes for no reason at all contains some words that British ppl use and sometimes Australian :3

(Although its extremely tempting to learn German just so I can randomly start speaking in German)

Get off our internet if you don’t like it 🇺🇸🔫💪

I can tell you, that as a native German speaker, deeply submerged in English media and programming languages, sometimes I don't remember the German word and just insert English words into my sentences and everybody above the age of 45 gets extremely angry about that, while everyone below that age will just blink, nod and then go along.

It's a really weird level of Zweisprachigkeit when you suddenly start to mix words.