• Condiment2085@lemm.ee
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    19 days ago

    This comparison makes Celsius look even harder to use hahaha.

    Only 10 degrees between 68 and 86? That’s either a very nice but chilly day or a hot day

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      19 days ago

      Where I grew up it was between 20 and 30 much of the year. Honestly a 10 point warmness scale is quite easy to adjust to.

      I have heard farenheit defenders point out that we’re not water - that farenheit cares about the temperatures that humans care about

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      19 days ago

      I’m born and raised in the US, so I grew up on Fahrenheit, but switched my phone to Celsius about 10 years ago because I wanted to better understand the scale and have stuck with it ever since. I really don’t need to know the exact temperature when I check the weather, just an estimate of whether I should dress for “hot”, “cold”, or “mild”. One of the “tricks” I heard early on was similar: 0°C is freezing. 10°C is cold. 20°C is comfortable. 30°C is warm/hot. 40°C is fucking hot.