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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

ITT: Europeans tie their personal identity to an arbitrary scale for the expression of mean entropy.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ah America, bigger is always a better isn’t it?

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[+] [email protected] -6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Fahrenheit is such a nice system. 0 is really, really cold and 100 is really really hot. So 50 must just be perfect, right?

Way more intuitive then Celsius.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It is intuitive because you are used to it.

Also isn't 101 also really really hot? Or what about 99? And how about 1, isn't that also really really cold? It is an arbitrary frame of reference you have set up in an attempt to make a non-intuitive system more easily accesible.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Celsius isn't all that different.

-30 is really really cold, 30 is really really hot.

0 is just about perfect.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

More like 0 is really cold and 40 is really hot, so 20 must be perfect, which it is.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Eh I can barely breathe at 30. 40 is certain death. Except in a sauna, where 100 is no problem and we throw water on the rocks to make it feel hotter.

I know, it's weird. I've got pictures of me lying around in a pile of snow in a t-shirt, trying to cool down. At -15.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

0 is just about perfect.

Okay Mr. Freeze

[–] [email protected] 60 points 7 months ago (1 children)

41°C sounds terrifying to me

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Where i live it can go up to 53°C in the summer. In summer when there is a streak of very hot days and there's like a 41°C day, you will hear people out saying " oh, today it's quite cool, that's nice!"

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 7 months ago (2 children)

it's not about what makes more sense: what makes more sense is what you use everyday and is natural to you. 40+ C is freaking hot because when you experience it, it's freaking hot. It's about what the entire rest of the world is using as a standard.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Metric system is best system, no exceptions.

Anything over 40°C is fuckin' hot, anything under 4°C is fuckin' cold.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Anything over 31°C on a humid day is torture. As someone without AC, being indoors is the worst. What do you? Play games? Your devices heat up too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

My PC kept my room warm all winter, I now dread the incoming sun. Thank God for AC. Sorry for your loss there sir.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Are ACs not viable for you? I don't know I could do without one, sounds scary.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I live in the UK, getting an AC is not a matter to be discussed in polite company. Doing so upsets the queen and brings the Yankees to the door.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Yankees are easy to deal with, I certainly don't want to be the reason her highness turns in her grave.

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