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Turn up the heat (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Fahrenheit measures how people feel, Celsius measures how water feels.
Kelvin measures how atoms feel.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

No, it's not. I'm people and I don't feel like Fahrenheit. Lower than 10°C is cold, lower than 0°C is freezing (quite literally) and warmer than 30°C is too hot. See? Easy to remember numbers. Almost as if people feel numbers they're used to.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Why do people "feel" 80, though

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Because they are accustomed to Fahrenheit. I have no idea how hot/cold 80F is, apart from knowing it's colder than human body temperature, and hotter than inside temperature, but that's just from knowing those numbers in Fahrenheit, via the internet. I have no relation to them, it's like a foreign currency, know what I mean?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

80F is 26.66667C

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Oh, I know what you mean. I'm sick to death of this debate, haha.

I do think the things people say are funny, though.