• fitgse@sh.itjust.works
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    2 years 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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      2 years ago

      Fahrenheit isn’t “based on humans.” I can subjectively claim that 0°F is as unreasonably cold as 100°F is unreasonably warm; 30-90 is the only acceptable range. That’s arguably more arbitrary than 0-30.

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        2 years ago

        100, at the time the units were invented, was considered to be human body temperature

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          That would have made medical sense, making Fahrenheit actually useful for certain applications, and then they fucked it up.

          Fahrenheit is just more intuitive to me, but that alone makes me prefer Celsius

          and then you add all of the other benefits on top. We really need to get on the metric system.

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      2 years ago

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