Any unit of measurement is going to be pretty arbitrary in and of itself. The advantage of metric distance is that the relationships between units of different magnitude are not arbitrary. The US really should switch to metric distance, volume, and mass
I will defend Fahrenheit (for non-scientific purposes) until my dying breath though.
Imo the real advantage of Fahrenheit's extra precision is that the temperatues naturally found in inhabited parts of the Earth cover much more of the scale -- including both 0 and 100!
fahrenheit sucks I learned celsius and forgot fahrenheit because it sucked so much. The temperatures said on tv and in my neighborhood mean nothing to me anymore. Oh it was 80° today? nope you're wrong, it's the high 20s. I am the water and my molecules innately know when we hit freezing = 0 degrees outside. Subzero operations every winter, arctic commando shit, the international standard, you'll never see me coming while you're looking at your broken thermometer. :brace-cowboy:
fahrenheit sucks I learned celsius and forgot fahrenheit because it sucked so much. The temperatures said on tv and in my neighborhood mean nothing to me anymore. Oh it was 80° today? nope you're wrong, it's the high 20s. I am the water and my molecules innately know when we hit freezing = 0 degrees outside. Subzero operations every winter, arctic commando shit, the international standard, you'll never see me coming while you're looking at your broken thermometer. :brace-cowboy:
If only we had dozenal metric, with a smaller meter, basically a metric inch and metric foot, because those are actually useful and something you can picture much easier than meters. you get the benefits of standard measurements, y'know being able to actually count and divide, as well the equal magnitudes of metric
Also fahrenheit is better and i will agree with that, celsius is how water feels and I'm not fucking water, I need to know how hot I will be
Any unit of measurement is going to be pretty arbitrary in and of itself. The advantage of metric distance is that the relationships between units of different magnitude are not arbitrary. The US really should switch to metric distance, volume, and mass
I will defend Fahrenheit (for non-scientific purposes) until my dying breath though.
0°-100°
Fahrenheit: Really Cold - Really Hot
Celsius: Cold - Dead
Kelvin: Dead - Dead
Exactly. I speak human, not water.
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100 Celsius doesn't mean reasonably hot to any human anywhere
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No temperature system could ever line up with everyone's perception of hot and cold, but Fahrenheit is about as close as you can get.
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No but you see, instead of #logical numbers I have to memorize arbitrary numbers! Checkmate, world
Memorize? You have no idea how baked-into Fahrenheit-users' collective memory the number 32 is. There's nothing to memorize, that just *is* freezing.
Same for metric. You just know what -30, -20, -10, 10, 20, 30 is and there's nothing to memorize. You just know the temperature.
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I learn in American community college a simple rule: 0 - Freezing (32F) 10 - Cold (50) 20 - Cool (68F) 30 - Hot (30F)
Keep in mind that heat being a number is largely cultural. If you and I grew up with a different system, that system would make more sense.
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Imo the real advantage of Fahrenheit's extra precision is that the temperatues naturally found in inhabited parts of the Earth cover much more of the scale -- including both 0 and 100!
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Wow, I am so confused. And dead.
fahrenheit sucks I learned celsius and forgot fahrenheit because it sucked so much. The temperatures said on tv and in my neighborhood mean nothing to me anymore. Oh it was 80° today? nope you're wrong, it's the high 20s. I am the water and my molecules innately know when we hit freezing = 0 degrees outside. Subzero operations every winter, arctic commando shit, the international standard, you'll never see me coming while you're looking at your broken thermometer. :brace-cowboy:
Thank you for the glorious pasta, I will spam it at Celsius snobs who respond to my comments
:side-eye-1: i use celsius tho :side-eye-2:
fahrenheit sucks I learned celsius and forgot fahrenheit because it sucked so much. The temperatures said on tv and in my neighborhood mean nothing to me anymore. Oh it was 80° today? nope you're wrong, it's the high 20s. I am the water and my molecules innately know when we hit freezing = 0 degrees outside. Subzero operations every winter, arctic commando shit, the international standard, you'll never see me coming while you're looking at your broken thermometer. :brace-cowboy:
You put the Brace emoji there but when I read "arctic commando shit" I only heard Cuno's voice from Disco Elysium.
If only we had dozenal metric, with a smaller meter, basically a metric inch and metric foot, because those are actually useful and something you can picture much easier than meters. you get the benefits of standard measurements, y'know being able to actually count and divide, as well the equal magnitudes of metric
Also fahrenheit is better and i will agree with that, celsius is how water feels and I'm not fucking water, I need to know how hot I will be