• Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca
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    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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      9 months ago

      Fahrenheit has a fine granularity that is lost in cold climates. It’s why the Bahamas/Belize use it as well.

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        Well you know that you can use the decimals?

        How is - 40.000001°F more fine than - 40.00000000001°C?

        23°C is a nice room temperature.

        18°C is a bit chilly but still a comfortable temperature.

        If you want to go for a finer destinction then we cann say 18.5°C is warmer but I personally can’t feel the difference.

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          Our bodies are mostly water why not use a system that reflects this?

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            9 months ago

            The universe is mostly empty space with an average temperature of like… 4 Kelvin or some shit. Why not use a system that reflects that? Oh, we do? Right. Celsius is Kelvin + 273.15.

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            So then we should use the system that reflects the freezing point and boiling points of water at nice round values such as 0 and 100 then? Sounds like Celsius is the better system

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          Slightly off topic, but 23°C is a nice room temperature? We have our thermostats at 20°C and I find it quite warm. In the sleeping room we have 18°C and so do I have in my office, which I find quite comfortable. I hate visiting my parents, they always have 22.5°C which I find uncomfortably warm.

          Well it’s all subjective after all, I’ll be happy about chilly 23°C inside when summer comes.

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          9 months ago

          I can feel the difference between 71 and 73 in my house.

          At 73, my kids room is uncomfortably hot. At 71, it has a perfect chill for sleeping.

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            What is your point? That people who use Celsius can’t feel the difference between 21.7°C and 22.8°C?

            If you’re worried about your thermometer, you’ll be happy to hear that metric ones usually have finer precision than Fahrenheit ones, since they go in .5°C steps. Since +1°F means +5/9°C, you have less precision!

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              The point was they need that extra decimal because C isn’t good for human temperature sense.

              It’s not like you are prohibited from using decimals in Fahrenheit. It’s that you don’t need 3 digits because it works better for people.

              And fuck you for making me defend the most ass backwards measurement system on the planet.

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                It’s just an incredibly weak defense. Why is it worse for C to use an extra decimal for these differences? I can just as well argue that C is a more accurate representation, because small differences in temperature are smaller. Just like your argument, this is purely an opinion - until you can show me that not needing the extra decimal is objectively better, or until I can show you that smaller differences being represented as such is objectively better, neither of them holds any weight.

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                  It’s the same reason we use abbreviations and contractions when speaking. A trivial simplification is still a simplification.

                  Why bother with Celcius at all when there is Kelvin. Even Kelvin is arbitrary. Best to use Planck normalized temperature. The scale would be absolute 0 to 100 where 0 is absolute 0 and 100 is 10^32 Kelvin.

                  So whenever you have to tell someone the temperature outside, you say it’s 0.000000000000000000000000015237 Planck

                  If 3 digits isn’t more a tiny bit more cumbersome than 2, then 32 digits is fine too.

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                    We don’t have issues with decimals in many places. For example, why are there pennies? Why aren’t dollars just scaled up 100? Generally speaking: why don’t people immediately shift to the lower unit when talking about e.g. 3.5 miles? If you’re correct, those should be simplified too - yet they aren’t.

                    Why bother with Celcius at all when there is Kelvin.

                    Because Celsius uses a scale that relies on temperatures you’re encountering in your everyday life.

                    Even Kelvin is arbitrary. Best to use Plank normalized temperature. The scale would be absolute 0 to 100 where 0 is absolute 0 and 100 is 10^32 Kelvin.

                    Why? That scale is still arbitrarily chosen.

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              I don’t know if my thermostat is just wrong or if the layout of my house makes it inaccurate, but 64-65 in my house is frigid.

              Plus we have a baby so 67-68 is really the lowest we could go at night I think.

              But I agree, I sleep better in general when the blankets are warm and the house is cold!

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        Save yourself before it’s too late.

        Do not say anything positive about Fahrenheit in this thread… the Temperature Scale Inquisition is watching closely for any dissent from the party line.