My reasoning is that the period is a "stronger" punctuation mark than the comma, and it should be used for the more important separation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator

  • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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    3 days ago

    Burgerlander unable to conceive of other countries

    do you just not know anything about other countries? tropical countries have an even narrower temperature range so Celsius would give them even less resolution

    Burgerlander unable to conceive of decimal points

    if you're using this logic then we should all just use Kelvin and eliminate the middle man

    If you want a temperature range that is optimised for indicating the weather, you wouldn't use fahrenheit, you'd come up with something not based on "the freezing temperature of a solution of brine made from a mixture of water, ice, and ammonium chloride"

    absolutely based that that mixture just happened to produce such a great scale (which could be slightly tweaked to perfection, but is still pretty good at the moment)

    • kittin [he/him]
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      1 day ago

      The “resolution” argument is silly because there’s no way you walk out and think to yourself “I know the weather app says it’s 98 today but it sure feels like 99 to me.”

      I might maybe just be able to detect a difference of 2C or really more like 4-5C before it’s a difference I really care about in terms of how I dress or what activities I choose.

    • Hexboare [they/them]
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      2 days ago

      do you just not know anything about other countries? tropical countries have an even narrower temperature range so Celsius would give them even less resolution

      I've never known a time when it's important to say it's 27 degrees instead of 26.5 degrees.

      Air temperature matters even less in tropical places anyway because it's the humidity that will get you

      we should all just use Kelvin and eliminate the middle man

      If you hated Celcius you wouldn't go to kelvin, kelvin is what you get when you start with celcius and figure out absolute zero

      absolutely based

      cringe