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

  • Hexboare [they/them]
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    2 days ago

    Fahrenheit is dumb as fuck

    realistic temperature

    Burgerlander unable to conceive of other countries

    higher resolution

    Burgerlander unable to conceive of decimal points

    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"

    • imogen_underscore [it/its, she/her]
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      2 days ago

      yeah fahrenheit sucks lol it's hilarious when Americans are like "it's so intuitive" my friend that is not what intuitive means you just learned it since the age of 4

      • Hexboare [they/them]
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        19 hours ago

        I think it highlights how temperature is a uniquely underused scale in ordinary life, with anything that gives some decent from -50 C to 550 C being enough

        Whereas millimetres and kilometres are still useful despite being many orders of magnitude apart

      • Krem [he/him, they/them]
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        2 days ago

        centigrade is cool because the 0 point is something that makes sense, if it's negative degrees out you could see snow, you need to be super careful when driving, and if you have frost sensitive plants outside you need to take them inside. what happens at 0 degrees fahrenheit? nothing? what happens at 100 degrees? the outside temperature is the same as body temperature? ok good, cool and useful scale.

        like everything else in burgerland it's completely based on nothing, impossible to convert to normal scale, and also it's only used by burgerites.

    • Bobson_Dugnutt [he/him]
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      2 days ago

      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"

      Poppycock! Next you'll be saying that it doesn't make sense for 100 degrees to be defined by the body temperature of a horse.

    • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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      2 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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        7 hours 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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        19 hours 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