• fitgse@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    I’m 100% in on the metric system, but Fahrenheit is the best way to measure weather.

    0F is my freezing point 100F is my boiling point

    Fuck freezing/boiling of water!

    Celsius is great for science (except space science) or cooking, but weather should be based on humans.

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      5 months ago

      You only feel this way because you’re accustomed to Fahrenheit. I grew up with Celsius, and to me that feels like the perfect temperature scale. Fahrenheit feels weird and arbitrary to me.

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        5 months ago

        I grew up with Fahrenheit, but switched my weather app to use Celsius for a while, and I’ve internalized it pretty well. It works fine. The “human experience” angle doesn’t work anyway because that experience is very locale-dependent.

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        5 months ago

        It kind of is, but a good way to think of it is the percentage of hot it is. 70F is like 20C, which is a nice temperature. 0F is about -17C, which is very not hot, one might even say zero percent hot. 110F is about 43C, which is very hot, one might even say 110% hot

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      5 months ago

      -15f is my “freezing point” and anything above 75 is uncomfortably hot. See what you mean?

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      5 months ago

      0f is based on brine, but it just happens to correlate with it being fucking freezing for weather