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[+] -15 points 3 months ago (5 children)

But there is something inherently better in Fahrenheit! 0 is fucking cold. 100 is goddamn hot. It’s a measure that makes sense to the perception of us, human beings.

0 in Celsius is a little cooler than brisk, and 100 means you’ve been dead for a while. It’s a dumb system for humans to use.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    0 means water freezing, 100 means water boiling. This is actually quite helpful to know instinctively.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    You do realise water can fall from the sky, right? 100Β°C might not be too useful for outside temperatures, but knowing if there might be ice on the road or not seems like a useful thing to know.

    Also, as a maths teacher, having frequent negative temperatures makes working with negative numbers a lot more intuitive for students. The fact that Americans apparently use 1 for the ground floor means I’d lose out on both of my simple real-world examples of negative numbers.

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