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[–] Gobbel2000@programming.dev 14 points 11 hours ago (9 children)

We need to collectively realize that both Celsius and Fahrenheit are mostly arbitrary and not more than practical conventions to assign numbers to temperatures. Kelvin makes more sense but is impractical for daily use. It's just US-Americans distracting from the fact that most of their units are objectively bad compared to Metric by pointing out that Celsius is only marginally better.

[–] ptu@sopuli.xyz 13 points 11 hours ago

If only there was a way to tie Kelvin to some naturally occurring, everyday phenomena

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[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 13 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

I'm in Finland. I sometimes say stuff like "oh it's -30°C today. It's getting just a little bit nippy."

A friend of mine in California is like "Jesus Christ what are you talking about" and yes, he can convert that

[–] Starski@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 hours ago

This is a really bad representation lmao, you're giving an example of Finland in like mid winter comparing it to the reaction of someone who literally never sees winter. My state has had around -30°c for the last 2 weeks, been chilling, I've definitely preferred when it's been getting closer to -20 to -10 which has been funny, actually enjoying temperatures under freezing, but I don't get what your comments trying to say. It's not like Finland is that temperature all year lol, the climate of my city is surprisingly similar to a lot of Finland and I gotta say being in the cold still sucks.

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[–] Brainsploosh@lemmy.world 16 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

ITT: Water requires over double of all the hot just to boil.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

all of the hot everywhere or just in this room?

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[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 3 points 10 hours ago

The % is for humans not water. Anything over 100 is too hot.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

I hate that this makes sense.

Add humidity as a “hot modifier.”

[–] vaderaj@lemmy.world 45 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

How is freezing cold, 32% hot? What am I missing here?

[–] offspec@lemmy.world 21 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Because I can still walk to the mailbox in shorts at 32

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[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago (9 children)

I would prefer Celsius if it was smaller degrees, so 0 = freezing is great logic but boiling needs to be 1000 not 100. There just aren't enough degrees between freezing and boiling, Celsius is too inexact.

And no way is 50 medium in F, it is cold. We might actually put the heater that low because the HVAC system we have is built more for cooling, but that is very, very cold feeling. 0 in F is beyond cold, that is 32 degrees (or 18 of your civilized degrees) below freezing. Hellish cold.

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[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 27 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Celsius is percentage boiling.

[–] Lemmythings@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

only at 1013,3mbar and if it's boiling water

[–] lefixxx@lemmy.world 29 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

i tell them i use a 100 hour clock. Day starts at 0 at ends at 100. They see how much better it is and they have an existential crisis. And then everyone clapped

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

Technically, 1000 beats per day - but yes, Swatch tried this back in ‘99:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

Thanks, I hate that I love it

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Fuuuuck. That's the coolest thing I seen all day! I'm in. On .beat time now!

[–] akfdmfckwrl@feddit.dk 11 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

In that case, you should change the scale to match how hot/cold it actually gets outside. In many parts of the world, and even in North America, it regularly goes below 0F or above 100F.

"How hot it feels" is highly subjective. I would absolutely melt at 100F but feel fine at 0F, and nothing feels colder than those rainy windy days when it's 5C outside.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Going above/below the scale just means that the weather is too hot/cold to do anything.

[–] akfdmfckwrl@feddit.dk 2 points 8 hours ago

I do outdoors stuff even when it's -20C but find it difficult to get anything done at 25C, never mind 37C.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 4 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

but feel fine at 0F

Granted electricity is more complicated than a coat, but you absolutely need tools to feel "fine" at either temperature. Humans don't survive at 0F without fire or clothes, whereas 100F just needs a water supply. In the modern world this translates to a shelter with heating vs AC

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

100F also needs a hat

[–] akfdmfckwrl@feddit.dk 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, I wear clothes to feel fine at 0F, and I also need to wear clothes to feel fine at 50F. 85F is unbearable, and I would seriously consider moving north, if it regularly got that hot where I live.

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Wow people are so different. I grew up in Florida, without air conditioning until I was 25. 85F is so nice outside in the shade, and 80 in the sun is fine for working outdoors. In the shade, with a fan going, and something to drink, I am comfortable to mid-90s at least, just not moving so much, relaxing. Hot yoga at 103 is sweaty but not dangerous for me.

There are not enough clothes in the world to make me comfortable at 0 F, there is not gear for that, I don't generate that much internal heat.

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[–] moopet@sh.itjust.works 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

The stupidest thing about this that I always go on about is that they're saying the better scale is the one that goes from 0 to 100. i.e. metric. So why not use that for other measurements?

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 1 points 9 hours ago

Switching hard 😔

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 6 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

And if you only ever used it for describing weather, that would be an argument to make. But you use it everywhere, I mean just search for the term "cooking temperature" on Google images and you'll see a bunch of nonsense.

But even using it just for weather, this is still not a good argument, as the perspective of hot and cold is very very subjective, and changes constantly. To me, an outside temperature if 10C feels freezing cold in September, but it's reasonably warm in January. Or an inside temperature of 24C will feel amazingly cold on a 42C July day, but super warm on a -10C December night.

[–] wabasso@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 hours ago

I mean you could still do “Feels Like” with a humidity fudge factor in F.

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 15 points 16 hours ago

Ummmm? Well technically you can describe celsius as 0 being 0% boiling and 100 being 100% boiling with water. And it actually works pretty well because the hotter it is, the more it evaporates. Tho pretty sure its not linear and also thats a stupid way of saying it anyways.

[–] MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 31 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

Except what is cold/hot varies from person to person.

Water is more consistent.

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[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 55 points 21 hours ago (5 children)

I like how they claimed Fahrenheit made sense by relating it to a scale between 0 and 100 because a grade divided into 100 pieces (centigrade) is a system that is easy to handle. If only there was a unit of measurement that was already like that.

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[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 77 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

and then theres Kelvin, where 0 literally is 0% hot

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 62 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Chrobin@discuss.tchncs.de 47 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I have to be that guy: it's K, not °K.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 14 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Thank you for your service.

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