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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Tell me that you are American without telling me you are American

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Now, now you get your People pass cancelled.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (32 children)

Americans always regurgite the "Fahrenheit is how people feel" nonsense, but it is just that: nonsense. Americans are familiar with fahrenheit so they think that it is more inituitive than other systems, but unsurprisingly people who are used to celsius have no problems using it to measure "how people feel" and will think it is a very inituitive system.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (20 children)

Can confirm. Moved from the US to Canada and maybe a year of using Celcius revealed to me just how fucking stupid and convoluted Fahrenheit is. My dad spent three weeks out here and started using Celcius on his phone. Now I only use Fahrenheit when dealing with fevers or temping cases of suspiciously overripe produce.

Fellow Americans. Celcius is superior and more intuitive for those who take a moment to adjust to it. It is okay to accept this as fact without developing an inferiority complex. USA not always #1. USA quite often not #1 and that is okay. It is okay for USA to not be #1 without developing an inferiority complex.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Kelvin is for scientists.

Celsius is for people.

Fahrenheit is a translation layer between Celsius and Americans. All their weather stations have been Celsius for ages, it's a societal decision to use an arbitrary unit instead. The "69F censoring" which turned out to be a rounding artefact illustrated that nicely. Their government could change that, power to them that they decide not to 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

fahrenheit is literally defined by celsius at this point, afaik celsius is literally the official standard of the united states but everyone just.. keeps using fahrenheit anyways

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

Nah, it doesn't make any sense, and isn't deep or insightful at all.

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

Honestly? I’ve only lived in countries with Celsius and Celsius is how I feel. I know exactly how hot or cold a day is gonna be if I look up the temperature. Thats how I know what clothes to wear!!! But Fahrenheit confuses the shit out of me. Every time I visit the US, I always convert the temp back to Celsius when someone tells me the temp.

I know Fahrenheit has more degrees and that can give you more datapoints. But cmon. The temp only goes up to, like, 50 C anyways lol. How many degrees do you need 🤣. Can you really differentiate between 61 and 62 F? Now, 60 to 65 F might be believable, but that’s like 15 to 18 C so, that much difference is shown even in Celsius.

I’m not saying Celsius is better, or that Americans should convert to it. Actually, if I was God-Emperor, I’d force us all to use Kelvin,, given it begins with Absolute Zero and I’m a sucker for shit like that.

But variety is the spice of life. For Americans, Fahrenheit is how they feel. For most of the rest of us, it’s Celsius.

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

"Human scale". Snort. What bollocks.

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

At this point, there’s no harm in using Fahrenheit. We can convert it to celcius. But please use a sane date format.

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

Celsius can be used in place of all three, the others cannot.

The freezing point of water is also a great place to zero the scale.

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

Plus 100 is boiling it's a perfect scale.

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

i love this idea that water is completely irrelevant to humans, as if it's not like 60% of our mass and vital to living

yeah no let's base the temperature scale around what some english dude felt was comfortable

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

Fahrenheit isn't how people feel, it's how brine solutions feel.

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

How can you manage to spell Fahrenheit right but Celsius wrong?

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

I don't get it...people freeze at 0F and boil at 100F?

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