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[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But really it is much better for human temperatures.

It's just intuitive, 0F is 100% cold, and 100F is 100% hot.

When the dry bulb gets above 100F, wind only cools you down by sweat evaporation, and when the wet bulb gets above 100F, even that can't cool you down, and you will die if you don't get to a cooler or drier environment.

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[-] jpablo68@infosec.pub 17 points 1 year ago

good point, but to us Celsius fans or "Celsilovers" over one hundred sounds like the apocalypse.

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[-] Facebones@reddthat.com 16 points 1 year ago

I hate that I agree with this lol

[-] KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago

Fuck it. I'm inventing a new scale.

Behold! "Disagree Degrees". We're going to combine the best traits of the other units. No more searching for the stupid little degree character in the character map. D for degrees or disagrees - whatever, I don't give a shit.

0D = 0K (Like Kelvin, no negatives! That's so dumb!) 0.4D = -40 C and -40 F 1D = Water Freezing point (Need a consistent point of scale) 10D = "Pleasant temperature" 100D = Kind of hot 500D = Really hot for people (>40C or >100F) "It's like 500 disagrees out there!" 1000D= Water boiling (To match the freezing temp) 1,000,000,000,000D = Surface of the sun

Good luck on the math converting to other units, this temperature scale isn't about being useful for nerd stuff, it's all about appealing to our emotions.

[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 14 points 1 year ago

celsius is the yelp of temperature ratings

[-] suzune@ani.social 14 points 1 year ago

What? 100°F is too mild. It doesn't even boil water!

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[-] socsa@piefed.social 14 points 1 year ago

ITT: Europeans tie their personal identity to an arbitrary scale for the expression of mean entropy.

[-] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 year ago

It's no just Wuropeans, but the majority of the world

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 13 points 1 year ago

“Bigger number is more better” also explains American sports where you get 3 points for running a bit and then play stops for an ad break and the national anthem.

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[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm gonna be honest. I love Celsius for the the whole perfect math reasons with calories and water based measurement...

But the curve on temps is a pain when all the nice temperatures require using a decimal place to decide just how slightly above or below pleasant it is but cold is basically everything from 16°C to -30°C And then decimals really matter when hotter than pleasant temps.

Whole rounded integers are just so vastly different depending how high or low you are in Celsius.

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