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Fuck Fahrenheit (lemmy.world)
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[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Farenheit is set up such that temperatures between 0 and 100 convey the subjective feel. 0F is really cold, 100F is really hot. Obviously cold and hot feel is subjective, but what could be more human than subjectivity?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

One quibble - it fully ignores humidity, as does C. The subjective feel of a climate doesn't depend only on temperature. 50% humidity at 10C is very different from 50% at 40C.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

And celsius fully ignores the effect pressure has on the boiling/melting point of water. Turns out temperature units only measure temperature

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Fahrenheit has nearly double the resolution of Celsius.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The arguments for Fahrenheit get stranger and stranger. First vibe designing measurement systems and now it's got more resolution

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

If you take issue with defining units based on vibes i have terrible news about the second, the meter, and the kilogram. Basically any unit is arbitrary until it becomes a standard

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

That is a weird argument. TBH there are only like six ACTUAL temperatures: fucking hot, hot, warm, cool, cold, fuckin' cold. Everything else is paperwork and doesn't really inform your day to day. The difference between say 30 and 29C is maybe undoing a button on your shirt.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

The subjective feel? The fuck lmao

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