Every time a right wing pundit talks about the left wing hive mind it's a clear tell that they have no understanding of their political rivals at all..
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The left is criticizing him but his base doesn't care.
The right is falling in line, as they tend to. In fairness, it's waaaay too late for them to do anything about it now.
Is it? Only pure water will actually freeze at 0c. Rain, puddles, lakes, etc aren't all that pure... And we're talking about ambient air temps here. The air can be below freezing and it can still rain. And you can get snow/hail above freezing...
Knowing the freezing point is just one factor. Knowing it's generally around 30F is pretty much always close enough (not that remembering 32 is actually very difficult)
Edit: also water only freezes at 0c if it's at sea level... I really don't think 0°=freezing is the huge advantage that celcius stans think it is.
I can't spell it properly without autocorrect
This is genuinely the most inconvenient thing about Fahrenheit
In point of fact Americans have gotten impressive results out of far more complicated metrics than metric. It's not a matter of understanding, it's a matter of pride. And of not having to buy all new tools.
Which is the closest thing to a legitimate criticism of celcius that exists. The entire top half of the scale (everything over ~50°, that is) is pretty much useless as far as judging the weather is concerned.
I'm pretty sure that wasn't actually Fahrenheit's intention, more a happy accident. Also if your body temp is 100°F then you're running a mild/moderate fever.
As is typically responded to this 'response': there are a large number of people-many European-who would unironically say that 50°F (10°C) is, in fact, the ideal temperature.
They're wrong, of course, but they exist.
But you're also assuming that the exact middle of the range is where the ideal sweet spot should be. That's wrong. People generally can better handle larger temperature deviations that are colder than their ideal than hotter deviations.
Yeah, but it hits different. Smaller number is smaller.
That's why I use Kelvin. THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN DEGREES?!!
I think Microsoft tried that, actually
So... Still unacceptably low. Got it.