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[+] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works -8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Fahrenheit is better at describing weather in reference to human interaction with temperature Celsius is better for everything else.

But that's the same for everything imperial. It's always better when it comes to actual human elements. How big is that stick? How many things in that piece of bread? How much weight is that rock? I need to move.

While metric is basically better anytime you have tooling you need to be extremely exact. You need to know something that is less human and more mathematical or abstract.

Well each system can do the thing. They're not great at it quickly falls apart. That's a big reason why people tend to say imperial sucks. Most people no longer actually interact with the natural world anymore. Everything is computers, exact measurements, quantifiable numbers from shops. The only thing left that most people deal with on a day-to-day basis is the weather and why Fahrenheit may be better than Celsius. It's only vaguely better since weather is already such an imprecise thing that really doesn't matter.

Well yes the granularity of Fahrenheit is far more useful. If you actually want to be like specific about things Celsius when it comes to weather it's close enough f****** does the job

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[–] Jiral@lemmy.org 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

That "better reference to human interaction" argument just doesn't hold any water though. The claim that using imperial means you are closer to nature is ludicrous and also horrendously US defaultist. Much of continental Europe was fully metric when people were still so much "closer to nature" and barely anything "was computer" yet, except for some room filling mainframes. Yet people here had no issue with all those metric units.

While imperial is absolutely atrocious at engineering and at scientific applications, SI units work perfectly fine for human reference interactions. Are there tiny differences, that give maybe imperial an edge in some circumstances? Possibly? In a way that it actually matters? Hardly.

This is certainly the case for °C vs °F. Anything finer than °C is below the precision of everyday thermometers and also hard to percept. While increments larger than that can be easily measured and are also perceptible. All relevant environmental temperatures are merely 2 digits, with boiling water at 100. That's perfectly adjusted to human interaction and reference. Most people don't need finer "granularity" in everyday life but if they do, they simply include the first position after the comma. This is optional and completely frictionless "ganularity", when you need it.

I am not saying that Fahrenheit is necessarily worse. It is one of the few imperial units that don't suck. But it is also not meaningfully better either, just different.

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[–] forestbeasts@pawb.social 1 point 5 months ago*

I mean, you can always use different units in different contexts. We use F for the weather but C for the kettle, personally! (C for the oven would probably also be better, but all the recipes are in F.)

-- Frost