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[–] ObsidianZed 29 points 2 months ago (56 children)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (12 children)

What annoys me about that phrasing, is that "how water feels" is quite relevant to how humans feel.

The obvious example is that if it's below 0°C, it starts freezing, which causes slippery sidewalks, snow, dry air, all that stuff.
But just in general having a feeling how much water will evaporate and later precipitate at certain temperatures, and even stuff like how hot beverages and cooking temperatures are, it's all still relevant for humans...

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 months ago (10 children)

The obvious example is that if it’s below 0°C, it starts freezing, which causes slippery sidewalks, snow, dry air, all that stuff. But just in general having a feeling how much water will evaporate and later precipitate at certain temperatures, and even stuff like how hot beverages and cooking temperatures are, it’s all still relevant for humans…

that's an interesting idea, BUT, the boiling point for water also exists under f as well, it's just 212 f, which if you want to round for convenience, is 200f. 100f is just about half the boiling point of water.

I guess you celsius folks might be more water pilled than the average US citizen, but it's not like it's impossible.

[–] andshit 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In Celcius water boils at exactly 100°C, and you don't have to round, and 50°C is exactly half the boiling point of water.

Yes, Celsius users are waterpilled: the whole system is based on the temperature at which water freezes and evaporates at 1 atm pressure.

(You're just fucking with us right? Like Celsius is has a coarser base unit, and the range applicable to human temperatures are not such pretty numbers, but you can't be seriously thinking Fahrenheit makes more sense for when we talk about water?)

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

In Celcius water boils at exactly 100°C, and you don’t have to round, and 50°C is exactly half the boiling point of water.

unless you're doing literal chemistry, the specific boiling point of the water doesn't matter, especially for any subjective referential experiences you might have, such as, going outside.

(You’re just fucking with us right? Like Celsius is has a coarser base unit, and the range applicable to human temperatures are not such pretty numbers, but you can’t be seriously thinking Fahrenheit makes more sense for when we talk about water?)

i'm not saying it's better, i'm just saying you're having a failure of imagination to conceptualize the usage of the fahrenheit system if you so pleased to use it in such a specific manner, which almost nobody here does. You could still do it though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Cooking is basically water based chemistry, so it makes a lot of sense to use Celsius.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

idk man, there's a lot of temperatures in cooking that are like, kind of close? Not that close, but like, kind of close. Even then, the one case where i consider it genuinely mattering is boiling water which like, you can just kinda know.

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