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alt textComic strip of a ghost and a person with the American flag pasted on the head. The ghost repeats "Boo!" in the first three panels without getting any reaction, but when it in the fourth panel says "kg, cm, km, °C" the American gets scared and screams "AHHHH!!!".

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The heck is 50% hot out? How is that even helpful lmao

28°c is a nice weather but 82.4°f(or 82.4% hot) sounds unlivable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lol 82.4°F is hot af. Depending on the humidity it could be quite uncomfortable.

Truly unlivable would be anything over 100.

50 is fairly mild. Cool, but not really cold at all. Long sleeves, pants, maybe a light jacket weather.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Truly unlivable would be anything over 100.

Sauna

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you trying to say people can live in a sauna? The whole point is they're so hot you can't (safely) stay in them too long.

I'm obviously not saying that people spontaneously combust above that temp.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You can for a while

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

No it's not, as i live in the equator, and that's the issue i have with fahrenheit. The whole thing is devoid of context and people think it makes sense naturally.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

82.4°f is pretty decent weather. Unlivable is more like 100°f+, hence the "100% hot" scale. Nice weather would be 75°f, which makes sense when you think of it in terms of the "0-100% hot" scale.

I agree that other things like distance, volume, etc are better in metric. I really wish the US would just standardize metric UOM in general. But I do think fahrenheit is better for temperature.