• ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Fahrenheit is vibe temperature. It just feels good use bigger numbers to describe being very hot. “It’s 30 degrees outside” sounds hot but “it’s 100 degrees outside” is more expressive, like built in exaggeration. That could be why it is preferred by Americans.

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      5 hours ago

      This is an argument that gets rolled out a lot but the argument is also based on vibes.

      Celcius having zero at freeing is actually useful with weather.

      100 being boiling, is also nice for cooking.

      The rest is arbitrary, and cope from US customary users who can’t accept that metric is the same or better in every single way.

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      2 days ago

      Farenheit isnt a vibe temperature, its just a bullshit unit of measurment that stuck around in the US.

      If you wanted a vibe temperature, why not have 0 be comfortable room temperature and then negatives be colder and positives be warmer?

      Or just use Celsius like the rest of the world.

    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      No, it’s just because the US never really converted to the metric system. Degrees Fahrenheit are zeroed at the freezing temperature of brine, and there are exactly 180 degrees from freezing to boiling water because that was an easy number to divide (like the 360 degrees in a circle).