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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shalafi@lemmy.world 3 days agoFahrenheit has nearly double the resolution of Celsius.
rbos@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 days ago
The arguments for Fahrenheit get stranger and stranger. For vibe designing measurement systems and now it’s got more resolution
Dabundis@lemmy.world 2 days 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
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 5 hours ago
This system was literally defended as “feeling right” versus SI
Dabundis@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
The thing that makes any unit useful is being an agreed upon standard, which is true of both F and C. the “feel right” part is just how it got there. When Celsius stuck a thermometer in freezing water and marked its position, he called that 100 degrees based on vibes. Later on, a french academic decided that actually freezing should be 0 and boiling should be 100, and that decision was based on vibes. Why is it any different when Farenheit made a vibes based decision to put 0 in a different spot than celsius?