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[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

would someone explain to me why whenever european people are confronted with the idea of the imperial system their brain seems to shutdown into a slow state of oxygen preservation? I genuinely don't understand it.

"40c in f is 104????" yeah, round it, its 100f, you think we specify to the Nth degree here?

"86f doesn't really make sense" yeah, round it. 90 is pretty close, and who boy 90s are pretty hot.

"why isn't 50f the perfect temperature" you're literally just applying an arbitrary point on something entirely arbitrary. But ok. (also it is the perfect temperature range between 50-70f)

"how is -17c and 37c cold and hot???" literally round it bro, -20 and 40c are right there wow look at that now it makes more sense! Im pretty sure this commenter is aussie or something, so in their defense, anything under 70f is cold for them. Either that or they don't wear clothes, ever, because they're calculating the coldness with no clothing. for some reason.

"yeah but we also think of things in relation to the temperature of water, like freezing is when shit is icy, and also the relation to the boiling point" brother, water boils in fahrenheit as well (212f, but again, you're going to shocked by this one, you can round it down to 200f, wow look at that, it's like, pretty close.) sure the freezing point is still higher, but you really only get freezes here at super prolonged periods of just under 30f weather, or really cold snaps that stick around a bit. generally snow in 30f weather is, not really a thing, the ground is still warm enough it melts. ice doesn't form unless it's like, close to 0.

guys, i promise, it's not this hard. Just, think about it a little bit, please. You're killing me here!

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

There's a reason why drug dealers and those who have huffed too much under the fume hood still know metric like the back of their hand.

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[-] eleitl@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Just use Kelvin. Problem solved.

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[-] xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

41° is "mild" to me as a Celsius user only because my country is too fucking hot in the first place.

[-] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

YOU'RE BOILING?!?

Oh, you're just an inbecile who likes to prove the movie Idiocracy is actually a documentary.

[-] Nurgus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

The real reason Fahrenheit will never die!

https://youtu.be/nROK4cjQVXM
(Finnemore's conversation between Farenheit and Celsius)

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