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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.

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.

Metric is good for science, but not ideal for casual everyday usage of hot and cold.

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.

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halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

That is not why fahrenheit works the way it does

You’re entirely right, but it’s fun to trigger people like you with a couple words that ultimately mean nothing.

You are projecting your own ignorance over billions of people, because you yourself have no idea how it works.

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.

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- breecher@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Epic projection comment. How little your multi paragraph novel screams “I don’t care”.
  
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- meekah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  You sure write a lot for someone who just doesn’t care
  
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  - halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Lots of downtime at work at 3am. Might as well poke the Europeans since they’re awake.
    
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    starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Oh, just can it, American.
    
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- sucius@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  It’s very entertaining to be able to trigger people at will to crawl out of the like bugs and talk shit online
  
  Uhhh so edgy
  
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- 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.
  
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  - timroerstroem@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    slammed into the Martian countryside
    
    At least it avoided the Martian urban areas.
    
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- ramenshaman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.
  
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