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• Aljernon@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The only temperature system that isn’t arbitrary would tell you how spreadable butter is. Zero degrees butter is utterly not spreadable while 100 degrees butter is the maximum spreadability it could achieve before melting.

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• moopet@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The stupidest thing about this that I always go on about is that they’re saying the better scale is the one that goes from 0 to 100. i.e. metric. So why not use that for other measurements?

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  • PugJesus@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Switching hard 😔

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• ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Retard units go brr.

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• RBWells@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I would prefer Celsius if it was smaller degrees, so 0 = freezing is great logic but boiling needs to be 1000 not 100. There just aren’t enough degrees between freezing and boiling, Celsius is too inexact.

  And no way is 50 medium in F, it is cold. We might actually put the heater that low because the HVAC system we have is built more for cooling, but that is very, very cold feeling. 0 in F is beyond cold, that is 32 degrees (or 18 of your civilized degrees) below freezing. Hellish cold.

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  • Leomas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Have you heard of decimals?

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    • Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I don’t want to mess around with punctuation. It’s the same with height. Six foot? Great! 1.91 meters? What even is that!

      Let’s remember where we are here everyone.

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    • RBWells@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I have never heard the temperature expressed with decimals - my phone says “it’s 14, today’s high will be 20 and low of 4” or whatever. Do oven settings have decimals in places that use Celsius?

      Is the temperature expressed beyond whole numbers?

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    • KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I think its called a gaggle of decimals.

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• sundray@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This scale presumes the non-existence of the state of “supa hot”.

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  • MagnyusG@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    but it’s not a rapper.

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    • sundray@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      OOOOHHHHHH!

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  • kboos1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Don’t confuse it with wicked hot

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• tomiant@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  B… B…. BAKA!

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  i could have sworn it had something to do with the automobile

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• Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  what does it mean when it breaks 100% , like in phoenix? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Phoenix

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  • Dogyote@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    110°F = 110% hot. It still holds up.

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  • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s like the difference between being in the blast radius of a fission bomb vs a hydrogen bomb. Does the size of the blast really matter glfrom ground zero?

    When it’s 100 degrees outside, I avoid the outside as much as possible. If it’s 120 degrees outside, I avoid the outside as much as possible.

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• WraithGear@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  100% hot would leave the measured medium superheated and possibly fissioned… so a measurement scale more extreme then kelvin

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• alsimoneau@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Except 100F is the temperature of a horse, so does that mean you find horses to move maximally hot?

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• sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  These threads always make me laugh. Maybe because of the way/where I was raised I really don’t care at all what anyone uses.

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  • Lemmythings@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Posting your message wouldn’t be able without standardization, even the language you are typing is a standardization. Anyway i envy your simple world

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    • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You, and I, typing this, in a thread about non-standardization certainly blows a hole or two in your simple thinking. It’s weird to think of flexible thinking as simple. I would say I envy your rigid comprehension, but I don’t. It would be awful to be lost when someone says N Celsius instead of N Fahrenheit or vise versa. What a miserable, difficult way to try to make it through life.

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• mudkip@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This is actually true

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• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I hate that this makes sense.

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• BallShapedMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I read somewhere that 0F is roughly the freezing temperature of sea water where 0C is the freezing temperature of fresh water. As England is an island I see the value in the freezing temperature of sea water at the time.

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  • Deme@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Sea water varies in its salt concentration a lot. And no seawater has ever been recorded below a temperature of 27.3°F (-2.6°C). Fahrenhreit used his own concontion of high concentration brine.

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    • BallShapedMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Interesting! Thank you!

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