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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (36 children)

I'm not sure I agree with the take for farenheit. It's an arbitraty choice, and to me who grew up in a country that uses celsius, I find that far easier to understand and farenheit may as well be random numbers to me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Whatever your grew up with will always seem more intuitive for most people. But given that I grew up with Fahrenheit, the whole “0 is cold as fuck, 100 is hot as fuck” thing works for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Farenheit is asking Americans how hot they feel.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

Fahrenheit is our broken clock being right once a day

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Do Americans feel heat differently or something?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Outside of the USA noone knows what idk, 50°F feels like. Probably around room temperature since you say it's based on how humans feel but I have no idea.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

They're one of only 3 countries in the world who still use °F, and represent 98% of the population who do so. So it's basically just America.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, pretty much. I figured it was probably implied that I’m in the states. :)

I mean, SI units are objectively the best, and align with metric in most cases, but my brain is conditioned to accept Fahrenheit and miles per hour natively. Celsius and km/h have to go through an interpreter to convert them.

I have to say though, km/h has that “0 to 100” thing going for it that Fahrenheit does. 100 isn’t the fastest you’ll go, but it’s a typical highway speed.

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