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Whatever. Metric is better in pretty much every other way, but Fahrenheit is demonstrably better for describing temperature as experienced by a human.
Which units are best doesn't matter: the point is, nobody else uses standard units anymore, apart from a couple oddball countries, and only one of them - North Korea - isn't trying to extricate itself from it.
Everybody else tries to be a part of the world's technical and scientific communities by speaking the same language, but of course America has to be different. Because of course it does... And it's tiring if you ask me.
You are calling that "standard units" ? When only 1 country uses them ? Oh the irony ...
That's just the name of US customary units: they're usually called standard. Just like the old British customary units were called imperial when there hasn't been a British empire for quite a few decades.