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[–] 53 points 1 month ago (13 children)

It’s like people making these memes don’t understand that intuition is learned. One is not universally more intuitive than the other

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (5 children)
  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Not at all. I find Celsius much more intuitive but I’m not trying to argue that that is universally true.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    You're right, Rankine is clearly the best.

    (Anyone actually know what Rankine even is outside something ddg told me exists?)

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    Mechanical engineer from a power plant here. Rankine is the best, can confirm. Room temp is like 530 degrees. Now that makes sense.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    God I love it when I walk inside when its hot and the temperature is just under 530. The best feeling ever.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    You made it sound so nice I set my thermostat at 530 too. The solder melted out of my TV and the magazines on the coffee table spontaneously ignited. On the plus side I can cook a pizza in the living room now instead of getting up to go to the kitchen.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Isn't being intuitive the whole point of metric?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    Not really. Easy conversion is the whole point. One litre of water weighs one kilogram (depending on temperature) and fits into a 10x10x10 cm cube.

    Compare that with: one quart of water weighs 2.086 pounds and fits into a 3.86 × 3.86 × 3.86 inch cube.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    The math and prefix conversion is intuitive (because most of the world uses base-10 these days). There is nothing particularly intuitive or handy for either of them with respect to temperature - you just learn what it means and work with it. I've been using metric since I was 6, so like a good Canadian weather is metric and baking is Fahrenheit. When I talk about combustion points, melting points of metals, boiling point of water, back to metric. See? Intuitive.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 month ago (1 child)
  • [–] 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    ah, 50 degrees, the perfectly average temperature

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  • [–] 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    The fuck is a Fahrenheit

    Sounds like a disease

    Keep that shit away from me

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    when it's 112F outside so you are 12% hotter than maximum

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    When everyone else is 65% warm, I am 100% warm

    Manipause is real

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago
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    Mf probably thinks the frequency of cesium is naturally intuitive

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Works unless it actually gets to freezing.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)
    1. Remove everything to the left of the video ID, the "?is=xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" part is just there for tracking.
    2. As for the claim itself, it is dumb to argue what temperature scale is better to use outside of scientific/technical applications, it is just down to personal preference, what you are used to.
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  • [–] -3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

    I don't ever see people bring up the fact that Fahrenheit contains more whole numbers.

    20c -> 68f

    21c -> 69.8f

    22c -> 71.6f

    23c -> 73.4f

    A lot of people notice the different between 68, 69, 70, 71, and 72 Fahrenheit. But Celsius has massive gaps in the measurements of these temperatures. Which is ironically very important to the average American, due to the use of thermostats and air-conditioning.

    Of course a computerized system will use the decimals to get the correct temperature.

    But conversationally, you'd have to include the decimals, which is too complicated for casual chit chat.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Brother I can’t tell the difference between 22 and 24c, how the hell will I the difference between 69 and 70?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    I find this comment funny as fuck because I regularly get too cold at 69 and put the thermostat at 70 to be comfortable.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    A home thermostat will commonly have a multi degree range for turning on and off to avoid excessive cycling and then individual rooms can have multi degree differences from the thermostat and then even in an individual room you can get multi degree differences from the ceiling to the floor

    So while changing the actual setpoint can change it from comfortable to uncomfortable you still likely can’t tell the difference between a 1F difference

    That is before even accounting for humidity or airflow which can make even bigger differences

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