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    Tell me that you are American without telling me you are American

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      Ok.

      “Hey. Come over and get some BBQ and food that doesn’t look like sad beans. We can talk about how boring a soccer game is when one team leads and they just play keep away for 40 minutes. Man, this corn on the cob is so good. Sure glad my teeth are straight so I can eat it super easy. Anyone else enjoy having a complete global dominance on movies, tv, and pop culture? How about the internet?”

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    Americans always regurgite the “Fahrenheit is how people feel” nonsense, but it is just that: nonsense. Americans are familiar with fahrenheit so they think that it is more inituitive than other systems, but unsurprisingly people who are used to celsius have no problems using it to measure “how people feel” and will think it is a very inituitive system.

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      Can confirm. Moved from the US to Canada and maybe a year of using Celcius revealed to me just how fucking stupid and convoluted Fahrenheit is. My dad spent three weeks out here and started using Celcius on his phone. Now I only use Fahrenheit when dealing with fevers or temping cases of suspiciously overripe produce.

      Fellow Americans. Celcius is superior and more intuitive for those who take a moment to adjust to it. It is okay to accept this as fact without developing an inferiority complex. USA not always #1. USA quite often not #1 and that is okay. It is okay for USA to not be #1 without developing an inferiority complex.

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        Fahrenheit has a fine granularity that is lost in cold climates. It’s why the Bahamas/Belize use it as well.

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          Well you know that you can use the decimals?

          How is - 40.000001°F more fine than - 40.00000000001°C?

          23°C is a nice room temperature.

          18°C is a bit chilly but still a comfortable temperature.

          If you want to go for a finer destinction then we cann say 18.5°C is warmer but I personally can’t feel the difference.

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            I can feel the difference between 71 and 73 in my house.

            At 73, my kids room is uncomfortably hot. At 71, it has a perfect chill for sleeping.

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              What is your point? That people who use Celsius can’t feel the difference between 21.7°C and 22.8°C?

              If you’re worried about your thermometer, you’ll be happy to hear that metric ones usually have finer precision than Fahrenheit ones, since they go in .5°C steps. Since +1°F means +5/9°C, you have less precision!

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                The point was they need that extra decimal because C isn’t good for human temperature sense.

                It’s not like you are prohibited from using decimals in Fahrenheit. It’s that you don’t need 3 digits because it works better for people.

                And fuck you for making me defend the most ass backwards measurement system on the planet.

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                  It’s just an incredibly weak defense. Why is it worse for C to use an extra decimal for these differences? I can just as well argue that C is a more accurate representation, because small differences in temperature are smaller. Just like your argument, this is purely an opinion - until you can show me that not needing the extra decimal is objectively better, or until I can show you that smaller differences being represented as such is objectively better, neither of them holds any weight.

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            Our bodies are mostly water why not use a system that reflects this?

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              The universe is mostly empty space with an average temperature of like… 4 Kelvin or some shit. Why not use a system that reflects that? Oh, we do? Right. Celsius is Kelvin + 273.15.

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          Save yourself before it’s too late.

          Do not say anything positive about Fahrenheit in this thread… the Temperature Scale Inquisition is watching closely for any dissent from the party line.

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      Both are equally arbitrary. You just have to know a handful of temperatures that you use in your day to day life either way.

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          Hum… Around here water boils at ~96°C (some labs measure that). And it seems to not freeze at 0°C anywhere on Earth, as it’s never pure water, with never an homogeneous freezing point.

          It is repeatable, it’s not very arbitrary, but “intuitive” doesn’t apply in any way.

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      I mean, you’re 100% wrong. Fahrenheit isn’t “how people feel” arbitrarily, it’s almost literally a 0-100 scale of how hot it is outside. You need no prior knowledge to interpret a Fahrenheit measurement. Which really reflects poorly on everyone who says “Fahrenheit doesn’t make any sense” because if they were capable of any thought at all they would figure it out in 2 seconds, like everyone else. I’m a lab rat that uses Celsius all day every day, I’m just not a pretentious stuck up tool about alternate measurements just because I refuse to understand them.

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      I like that Fahrenheit has a narrower range for degrees. 1C is 1.8 degrees F. So, F allows you to have more precision without the use of decimals. Like, 71F feels noticeably different to me than 64F, but that is only a 3.8 degree difference in C.

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        But that also doesn’t matter because the granularity is meaningless if you don’t make decisions for differences between 71F and 70F

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          Not at those exact temperatures, but one degree matters in in grilling meat, making mash for beer, making candy, etc.

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            Where in the chicken I jam the thermometer makes several degrees difference. If you truly require that level of granularity whilst grilling, I’d wager reading a decimal figure isn’t the end of the world. Us normies can continue to bring chicken to 74 and call it a day

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        3 degrees celcius is easily noticeable too so that’s a bit of a moot point. If anything, 1 degree celcius is much harder to discern and therefore having an even more granular scale is unnecessary.

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      It is really easy to map onto human feel though. 0-100 pretty accurately maps onto our minimum and maximum realistically survivable temps, long-term, and the middle temperatures of those are the most comfortable. It’s far more round, when it comes to describing human preference and survivability, than Celsius is.

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        I wanna say that with this logic 50 should be right around the most comfortable temp… But for most people it’s closer to 70.

        I’ll try to explain how easily mappable Celsius is to people as well.

        -40 to +40… -40 being extremely cold, and +40 being extremely hot. 21c is the equivalent of 70f.

        It’s all the same stuff. Just matters what you’re used to.

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          0-150 is the better range, and 75 is right in the middle. 100 is just a hot air temperature most people don’t want to be in but it’s not an extreme.

          Saunas can get up to 200 degrees

          Hot tubs are usually at 100

          Freezers need to be at least 0

          You say 15°C. 6° cooler than room temperature. But how much is 6°?

          It’s 60°F.

          50°F or 10°C is where you need clothes to survive

          300, 325, 350 is where you bake cookies (149-176°C)

          Fahrenheit has a bunch of 5 and 10s

          Saying something like high 70s or low 70s for temp represents an easy way to tell temperature.

          21° to 26° for celcius

          I walk outside and say “It feels like high 70s today” someone using celcius would say, “Feels like 25°”. If it was a little warmer than “low 80s” compared to “Ehh about 26 or 27°C”

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            Why is it okay to say high 70s/low 80s and not high 20s? No one goes outside and says, “Ehh, it feels like 26.6 oC today.”, we just know it is a bit warmer than 25.

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            Yeah, I get your point. I think I’m just trying to explain that it all just matters where you grew up and what you used. I go outside today and I do say it feels like a 12 degree day. It’s not that much different.

            I must admit, the oven temps are nice, but they are a product of being written in Fahrenheit (if they were written in celcius, it would be round too, like 150c, 160c, 170c, 175c, etc)

            But the more I look at it the more I see it’s all just numbers. We put importance to these numbers but they’re all pretty arbitrary, except celcius using 0 as the freezing point for water and 100 as the boiling point- these are two very important measures that are just weird for Fahrenheit.

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              When do you use 0° and 100°C?

              This is also at standard pressure and most do not live at sea level.

              I don’t put a thermometer in my water to make sure it is boiling or one in my water to make sure it freezes.

              It can snow and roads can ice before it hits 0°C

              It has no real world applications

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            0-150 is the better range

            Depends on where you live. Someone in Siberia would probably disagree, as the temperature there can reach -40

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        I bet a lot more people know what 0°C feels like than 0°F. One is freezing point, one is a completely arbitrary temperature which only gets called “the lowest you’ll experience” as a post hoc rationalisation of Fahrenheit. Most people will never experience anything that cold, some people experience colder.

        I even bet more people know what 100°C feels like than 100°F. One is accidentally getting scalded by boiling water, the other is a completely arbitrary temperature which is quite hot but not even the hottest you’ll experience in America.

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          boiling water isnt necessarily 100c. if youre boiling water, it can be any arbitrary temperature above 100.

          thats like going to a geyser pit and saying thats 100c, when it isnt. when you cook and let water come to a boil, the chef doesnt care that its exactly 100c, only that its in the state above 100.

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            if youre boiling water, it can be any arbitrary temperature above 100.

            That’s not how boiling works. The water heats up to its boiling point where it stops and boils. While boiling the temperature does not increase, it stays exactly at the boiling point. This is called “Latent Heat”, at its boiling point water will absorb heat without increasing in temperature until it has absorbed enough for its phase to change.

            There is an exception to this called superheating

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          What? People experience 100 f regularly. It’s literally their body temperature.

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            100F is a fever; if you’re experiencing those regularly you should go see a doctor.

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        No it doesn’t, unfortunately.

        What makes 0F (-18C) special? How do you estimate survivability at such temperature? If I’d be out on the street naked, I would die there in a matter of minutes. At the same time, there is plenty of places where winter temperatures go -40F (-40C) and even below, yet people very much survive and live there.

        Similar with 100F (38C). There are places with higher temps in the summer, up to 120F (49C) in some places, yet people survive. Still, if you’re not equipped with anything, 100F (38C) will burn you alive.

        All that not to mention that 50F (10C) is actually cold, not comfortable.

        Fahrenheit is only intuitive and “feeling-descriptive” because you’re used to it. From a person born in Celsius country, it’s really not less intuitive. I know I can be comfortable in my birthday suit at around 25C. Less than 20 is chilly, less than 10 - cold, less than 0 - freezing. More than 30 is hot, more than 40 is deadly.

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          0F is the temperature a freezer needs to be to keep food fresh.

          50F is the point that you can’t survive without clothes, your body will not generate enough heat.

          100F (38C) will not burn you alive. You can survive for a long time in a sauna at 200F.

          100F is perfect hot tub temperature

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            Freezer normally operates at -4F

            You can’t survive without clothes at 55-60F, either.

            100F will not burn you in an instant, but the comment went into long-term survival, and good luck surviving at that.

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              Not sure where you got -4F from.

              USDA, United States Department of Agriculture, recommends 0°F or -17.8°C

              100°F in the shade isn’t extreme, and you’d be able to survive normally (With more water, everyone can use more water)

              100°F is hot tub water

              120°F is recommended hot tap water

              140°F water will pretty much burn you instantly

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                Guess what, Canada sets the freezer at -15 Celsius. The USDA just chose 0F because it’s good enough and a nice easy to remember number, there is nothing special about it.

                Same with all your other numbers, your just using whatever the closest even F value is that’s easy to remember there’s nothing special about any of them and we have equivalents in Celsius

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                  your freezer at -18 °C (0 °F) or lower. This will keep your food out of the temperature danger zone between 4 °C (40 °F) to 60 °C (140 °F) where bacteria can grow quickly.

                  According to Canada.ca

                  Every 2 F is basically 1 C. You have more whole numbers with F.

                  Like -15°C is 5°F

                  6°F is -14.4444°C

                  -14°C is 6.8°F

                  So 5, 6, and 7°F are about equal to -15, -14.5, and -14°C.

                  And it’s not just a random number. You know how much more energy would be used if everyone kept their freezer just a couple degrees colder? It’s the optimum recommended temperature.

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    Kelvin is for scientists.

    Celsius is for people.

    Fahrenheit is a translation layer between Celsius and Americans. All their weather stations have been Celsius for ages, it’s a societal decision to use an arbitrary unit instead. The “69F censoring” which turned out to be a rounding artefact illustrated that nicely. Their government could change that, power to them that they decide not to 🤷‍♂️

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      fahrenheit is literally defined by celsius at this point, afaik celsius is literally the official standard of the united states but everyone just… keeps using fahrenheit anyways

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        There’s also no such thing as an inch. It’s defined by the meter, there isn’t an official yardstick.

        The only reason the UK, Canada and USA used the same inch is because they needed to interchange parts for weapons and machines during WW1. Despite all thinking they used the same measurement system the definition had drifted between them. Metric was defined by enlightenment people with better methods of reproducing the standard. So it was easier to adopt a inch definition based on 25.4mm.

        The UK and US inch only match because of WW1. The imperial volumes are still different.

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          By that logic, there’s also no such thing as a meter either. It’s defined as a distance light travels in a time interval proportional to the inverse of a frequency related to the caesium-133 atom. Definitions don’t mean there’s “no such thing” as something, it’s just a matter of if the units are useful in a given context. And meters are more useful in most everyday contexts.

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            In timekeeping, there are so called stratums to describe how correct a clock is.

            Stratum 0 is a physical process, an inherent property of the universe. An atomic clock would be stratum 0.

            Stratum 1 is a clock defined based on a stratum 0 clock. For example, GPS clocks are usually stratum 1, so are timeservers at universities with atomic clocks.

            Stratum 2 is a clock defined based on a stratum 1 clock, for example, your router’s ntp server if it syncs its time based on gps or a university’s timeserver.

            So if we adopt this jargon for units:

            Meter is a stratum 1 unit, defined based on the stratum 0 properties of lightspeed and cesium resonance.

            Inch is a stratum 2 unit, defined based on the stratum 1 meter.

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      No, but those describe pretty well the range within people tend to do okay in. Anything lower or higher and you tend to need more specialized gear and have to seriously limit exposure.

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        You need specialized gear at less than 0F and more than 100F? So totally fine to wear t-shirt and shorts anywhere in between? Just face facts…F is a completely nonsensical system with no basis in any reality.

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    At this point, there’s no harm in using Fahrenheit. We can convert it to celcius. But please use a sane date format.

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      Which is a surprisingly good approximation for how people feel. 0-100 is pretty survivable, with the mid ranges being most comfortable, and things outside of that range starting to pose serious threats.

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        0-100 is pretty survivable

        I can tell you’ve never been outside when it was 0°F

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    Honestly? I’ve only lived in countries with Celsius and Celsius is how I feel. I know exactly how hot or cold a day is gonna be if I look up the temperature. Thats how I know what clothes to wear!!! But Fahrenheit confuses the shit out of me. Every time I visit the US, I always convert the temp back to Celsius when someone tells me the temp.

    I know Fahrenheit has more degrees and that can give you more datapoints. But cmon. The temp only goes up to, like, 50 C anyways lol. How many degrees do you need 🤣. Can you really differentiate between 61 and 62 F? Now, 60 to 65 F might be believable, but that’s like 15 to 18 C so, that much difference is shown even in Celsius.

    I’m not saying Celsius is better, or that Americans should convert to it. Actually, if I was God-Emperor, I’d force us all to use Kelvin, given it begins with Absolute Zero and I’m a sucker for shit like that.

    But variety is the spice of life. For Americans, Fahrenheit is how they feel. For most of the rest of us, it’s Celsius.

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        “Fahrenheit is how people feel” only makes sense if said people have never used another scale. You know how 100F “feels” because that’s what you use. If you used Celsius you’d know how that scale feels instead, and be used to using the more useful scale generally.

        See also: people who think they don’t have an accent.

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          You know what? I just enjoy being able to set a thermostat to a comfortable level by just using whole numbers instead of resorting do decimal places.

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            If half a degree Celsius makes the difference between being comfortable or uncomfortable for you, then you have bigger problems than being able to use whole numbers.

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                The irony of someone not wanting to use decimal points for their temperature setting isn’t lost on me, when that same person has to resort to fractions to measure anything thinner than a door.

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                Europeans don’t have thermostats because they don’t have AC. You’re speaking elvish to them.

                Edit: Relax Europeans, it’s a snarky comment

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                  Fairly sure the thermostat in my European house is in fact a thermostat. AC may not be common in homes here but heating sure is and needs a thermostat.

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    Celsius can be used in place of all three, the others cannot.

    The freezing point of water is also a great place to zero the scale.

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      i love this idea that water is completely irrelevant to humans, as if it’s not like 60% of our mass and vital to living

      yeah no let’s base the temperature scale around what some english dude felt was comfortable