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ricecake@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

People who use Celsius don’t typically casually refer to the temperature with a decimal place.

The comfortable range is more compressed, but just like you probably say 75 instead of 74.5, they say 24 instead of 23.889.

Fahrenheit does coincidentally line up nicely for subjective weather scales, so it’s not offensive for that use, similar to how pint is a good cup size, but in general consistency is king and you’re not loosing anything by compressing a scale, particularly when we basically already measure the temperature in five degree increments, and generally refer to in in units of ten.

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