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if you see an American (me) whining about it being -8 degrees just know that -8C is warm in comparison

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[-] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 3 months ago

"Stupidly unrelateable" lol. lmao

Americans stop universalizing your experience challenge (impossible)

[-] microfiche@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

ITT:

The exact same shit you're hollering about but from the other side. It's almost like it's all pretty fucking lame and you should just log off.

Celsius is more useful

reason: it's the unit people use

sidenote: a small, disadvantaged 3-4% minority never learned it, because of failures in their education system

[-] Euergetes@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago

SI is not "relatable" it is based on universally observable constants. no one has to ask another country "hey what's a kilogram" or "how long is a meter" you just do some math

[-] into_highest_invite@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 3 months ago

to be fairrrrrrrrrrr, us units are all defined through metric units. so same

[-] microfiche@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago

Justifying why it's not reallllly the same kinda bellyaching.

This web forum is a good source of consistency and intelligence at all times.

[-] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 months ago

I never said anything about Celsius being better. I was pointing out that "Fahrenheit is more human" - a take I see all the time from Americans - only seems to hold water if you are familiar with Fahrenheit. But then it just reduces to Fahrenheit is good because it's familiar. Which... yeah lol.

Celsius isn't better for regular people with the sole exception of telling you what kind of precipitation is falling based on the minus sign. But it's not worse either

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