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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat -3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

K is however a more annoying scale to use for normal/human temps.

I just want you to ponder on that statement for a bit

Now imagine that you live on a planet where everyone outside your country uses Kelvin and swears it is normal

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That is fair, but we don't live on a planet like that.

So my argument stands for this planet.

However, lets look a bit closer at a world like that and it would be used.

In daily life I doubt that people would say:

Take it slow now, it is slippery, the temp just dropped to two hundred and seventy three point fifteen degrees out!

People would probably say something like:

Take it slow now, it is slippery, the temp just dropped to freezing!

Or during the summer, peeps would not say:

Perfect weather, two hundred and ninety six degrees, slow breeze and scattered clouds!

They would probably shorten it to:

Perfect weather, ninety six degrees, slow breeze and scattered clouds