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Farenheit is set up such that temperatures between 0 and 100 convey the subjective feel. 0F is really cold, 100F is really hot. Obviously cold and hot feel is subjective, but what could be more human than subjectivity?

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shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Fahrenheit has nearly double the resolution of Celsius.

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- Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  The arguments for Fahrenheit get stranger and stranger. For vibe designing measurement systems and now it’s got more resolution
  
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  - Dabundis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    If you take issue with defining units based on vibes i have terrible news about the second, the meter, and the kilogram. Basically any unit is arbitrary until it becomes a standard
    
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- rbos@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  That is a weird argument. TBH there are only like six ACTUAL temperatures: fucking hot, hot, warm, cool, cold, fuckin’ cold. Everything else is paperwork and doesn’t really inform your day to day. The difference between say 30 and 29C is maybe undoing a button on your shirt.
  
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rbos@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
One quibble - it fully ignores humidity, as does C. The subjective feel of a climate doesn’t depend only on temperature. 50% humidity at 10C is very different from 50% at 30C.

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- Dabundis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  And celsius fully ignores the effect pressure has on the boiling/melting point of water. Turns out temperature units only measure temperature
  
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Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
The subjective feel? The fuck lmao

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