• FatVegan@leminal.space
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    5 hours ago

    The funnuest argument for farenheit that i keep seeing is: celsius is good for scientific things, but in everyday life, farenheit is better, because it tells you how it FEELS. 60F feels pleasant while 40 is too cold.

    The delusion is real, even tge dumbest american can learn new numbers, i believe in you the same way you velive a pedo is gonna save you

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      5 hours ago

      This is the same level as “everyone has an accent except for me”

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      4 hours ago

      I think it’s sort of useful for weather, since in most places you’re not gonna see temperatures under 0F or above 100F much if at all, so the scaling seems a bit easier. Other than that though, yeah, it’s pretty terrible.

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        Where I live temperature in celsius is symmetric about 0. -40 to +40. I think that scaling is easier than -40 to +100.

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          Yeah, obviously isn’t the case everywhere, but I think such extreme temperature ranges are kind of rare (excluding random one-off days that are super cold or hot for whatever reason).

          For places that get super cold (like below 0F a lot), generally Celsius probably makes more sense in terms of scaling.

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      The delusion is real, even tge dumbest american can learn new numbers, i believe in you the same way you velive a pedo is gonna save you

      Do not overestimate US Americans: they didn’t manage to prevent him becoming president, twice - with all kind of insane justifications on all sides…