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[–] [email protected] 117 points 1 year ago (88 children)

I'm not sure I agree with the take for farenheit. It's an arbitraty choice, and to me who grew up in a country that uses celsius, I find that far easier to understand and farenheit may as well be random numbers to me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

100 F is roughly a human's body temp. (Actually 98.7 avg, but close anyway)

0 F is goddam cold. (This one's pretty arbitrary ngl)

That probably isn't very helpful.

Fwiw, Celsius isn't much better if you didn't grow up with it. 0 C is pretty cold, 100 C can give you severe scalds. The actual range the people will encounter in weather in their day-to-day lives is all over the place regardless.

Perhaps we are destined to stay divided

[–] Pok 1 points 1 year ago

Why does it have to be based on weather? There's plenty of other reasons to measure temperature. Some with handy reference points that lots of people are familiar with.

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