Comment on 98 degrees upstairs, ac stopped working at 8am.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 2 days agoYou do realize the reason fahrenheit is set up that way, is based on the human perception of temperature. 0-100 is the general range or cold to hot. Of course some inhabited areas end up outside that range a bit, because humans are adaptable but generally speaking it allows for far more graduation in every day real world scenarios. Metric is good for science, but not ideal for casual everyday usage of hot and cold.
Your body doesn’t really care what the boiling point or freezing point of water is. But you should and generally do need to preemptively plan for environments outside the fahrenheit scale.
prex@aussie.zone 2 days ago
el_bhm@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Your body doesn’t really care what the boiling point or freezing point of water is.
Yes it does.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Maybe Fahrenheit is really for tardigrades. Those don’t really care about the freezing temperature of water.
lemmyng@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
No, the human perception of temperature thing is a myth. Originally 0F is the freezing temperature of a brine solution, and 90F was Fahrenheit’s estimation on the average human body temperature, and then the scale was adjusted so that it fit in better with Celsius reference points (freezing/boiling points of water).
Reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 days ago
So it’s all a hack.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Like half of the things American.
ramenshaman@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You do realize the reason fahrenheit is set up that way, is based on the human perception of temperature. 0-100 is the general range or cold to hot.
You do realize that Celsius is set up based on known, objective, & measurable data points instead of subjective things like “hot” and “cold”.
theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The 9 and 100 in F is a completely random range, where 0 is a random solution freezing point and 100 was an estimation. Tell me how it’s better than C, tied to water, the main stuff we all need to live in this planet and probably also for aliens in other planets.
Ziglin@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I personally would use Kelvin for science, Celsius is much more useful for everyday things like whether it will rain or snow, whether the paths will be icy, how hot it will be according to the weather report and how hot to make stuff when boiling water or cooking. Kelvin is great for not having negative temperatures which don’t make sense.
brax@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
If that was true, then we wouldn’t see people bitching about the cold while I’m out in a t-shirt and jeans in 50°F weather. Seems fucking stupid to base a measurement system on something so subjective.
breecher@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
That is not why fahrenheit works the way it does. This is something Americans have appropriated as a silly and poor excuse for using it. “cold” and “hot” are completely arbitrary and subjective terms, and the 0-100 range is as arbitrary.
That will come as a surprise to the billions of people using it every day for exactly that purpose. You are projecting your own ignorance over billions of people, because you yourself have no idea how it works.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You’re entirely right, but it’s fun to trigger people like you with a couple words that ultimately mean nothing.
You mistake ignorance for simply not giving a fuck. I know what Celsius is, I know how it converts, I just don’t care.
It’s very entertaining to be able to trigger people at will to crawl out of the like bugs and talk shit online, wasting their time on a topic that doesn’t matter in the slightest. It’s usually the Europeans, they seem to have a superiority complex about this specifically for some reason and love typing at length about it. Most other countries outside the EU region don’t bother, probably because it doesn’t matter.
breecher@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Epic projection comment. How little your multi paragraph novel screams “I don’t care”.
meekah@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You sure write a lot for someone who just doesn’t care
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Lots of downtime at work at 3am. Might as well poke the Europeans since they’re awake.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Hey. Remember when the beagle spacecraft totally slammed into the Martian countryside because someone used imperial units? 2 year wait for some good times.
timroerstroem@feddit.dk 2 days ago
At least it avoided the Martian urban areas.
sucius@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Uhhh so edgy
ramenshaman@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Ah, well here’s another one of those down votes you were looking for.
Side note, I’m American. After getting a mechanical engineering degree is was clear to me that metric is just better. Maybe it doesn’t matter to you, maybe it doesn’t matter to most people, but if you actually have to spend time thinking about this stuff then it starts to matter.