Comment on Burning Up
smooth_tea@lemmy.world 3 months agoYou’re missing the point. The issue with Fahrenheit is not about the conversion from Celsius, most Europeans don’t need to do that anyway. The problem is Fahrenheit in itself, it’s just not elegant or scientific and therefore comes off as arbitrary and only makes sense when you grow up with it.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
yeah but why does that matter? It’s all relative, the only good thing about celsius is that it happens to line up nicely with one specific elements boiling point. If you’re doing science the only redeeming quality is that it maps linearly to kelvin, which is nice.
some of the relative math is nice, for certain units. But outside of that, for like, temperature, and cooking where none of that matters?