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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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Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
This system was literally defended as “feeling right” versus SI

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- Dabundis@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨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?
  
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  - Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I don’t know if you’re making a joke but this is about someone claiming Fahrenheit is better because “zero feels pretty cold and 100 pretty hot” lol
    
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