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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"Fahrenheit is how people feel" only makes sense if said people have never used another scale. You know how 100F "feels" because that's what you use. If you used Celsius you'd know how that scale feels instead, and be used to using the more useful scale generally.

See also: people who think they don't have an accent.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You know what? I just enjoy being able to set a thermostat to a comfortable level by just using whole numbers instead of resorting do decimal places.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If half a degree Celsius makes the difference between being comfortable or uncomfortable for you, then you have bigger problems than being able to use whole numbers.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Spoken like a pleb that has no control over their life. No thermostat control.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

The irony of someone not wanting to use decimal points for their temperature setting isn't lost on me, when that same person has to resort to fractions to measure anything thinner than a door.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Europeans don’t have thermostats because they don’t have AC. You’re speaking elvish to them.

Edit: Relax Europeans, it’s a snarky comment

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Fairly sure the thermostat in my European house is in fact a thermostat. AC may not be common in homes here but heating sure is and needs a thermostat.