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I'm really hoping that's in Fahrenheit
Nah, really?!?
At least they were nice about it and didn't make some colonial ass slur about "civilized society"
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