• Ender of Games@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    The Fahrenheit scale was built around human biology.

    Nope, it was built around the highest and lowest extremes some dude could create in his room. Not based on human biology in the slightest. Don’t repeat this false information.

    0C isn’t even that cold, and 100C is literally instant death.

    Yeah, but counter argument, who gives a shit? The “meme” doesn’t say anything remotely close to “from 0 to 100”. I don’t know why you are under the impression that these scales become inaccurate if you leave the 0-100 range. I live in a region that frequents -40C to +40C over a year- that’s centered on zero, so it’s already better for “how humans feel” than being centered on 32 and pretending there is some cosmic/celestial/god ordained reason for it.

    Kelvin is the most scientifically objective scale, but also the least intuitive for humans…

    Still no one giving a shit- the “meme” doesn’t remotely even suggest anything related to this.

    Be forewarned that I am willing to die on this hill

    I don’t know why you sign this off with “I’m an obnoxious twat”, but I’m perfectly happy with using the block function if the threat is real.

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      8 months ago

      A) Fahrenheit has an appropriate level of granularity for humans

      B) Fahrenheit has an intuitive frame of reference for humans

      Celsius and Kelvin do not.

      I don’t want to fight about this I just think it’s actually true, and I also think Europeans get insanely defensive about stuff like this for no reason.

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        Unlike Americans, celsius and kelvin users are not afraid of decimals, which fullfills all your graularity needs if you have them. But mostly it isn’t even needed because you literally cannot feel the difference.