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[–] akfdmfckwrl@feddit.dk 2 points 3 minutes ago

In that case, you should change the scale to match how hot/cold it actually gets outside. In many parts of the world, and even in North America, it regularly goes below 0F or above 100F.

"How hot it feels" is highly subjective. I would absolutely melt at 100F but feel fine at 0F, and nothing feels colder than those rainy windy days when it's 5C outside.

[–] vaderaj@lemmy.world 25 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

How is freezing cold, 32% hot? What am I missing here?

[–] offspec@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Because I can still walk to the mailbox in shorts at 32

[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Or pull the trash cans to the curb!

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 10 points 1 hour ago

Celsius is percentage boiling.

[–] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 hours ago

Americans using the word propaganda for "something I don't understand because my school system failed me so now I overcompensate by making up factoids that make me look even more uneducated by the rest of the world"

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 hours ago

Ummmm? Well technically you can describe celsius as 0 being 0% boiling and 100 being 100% boiling with water. And it actually works pretty well because the hotter it is, the more it evaporates. Tho pretty sure its not linear and also thats a stupid way of saying it anyways.

[–] lefixxx@lemmy.world 15 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

i tell them i use a 100 hour clock. Day starts at 0 at ends at 100. They see how much better it is and they have an existential crisis. And then everyone clapped

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Technically, 1000 beats per day - but yes, Swatch tried this back in ‘99:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time

These threads always make me laugh. Maybe because of the way/where I was raised I really don't care at all what anyone uses.

[–] MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 17 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Except what is cold/hot varies from person to person.

Water is more consistent.

[–] lauha@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

37 isn't really hot yet. It's warm. It's around 50 degrees when it starts feeling too hot to touch.

[–] Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

37 isn't really hot yet.

Tell me how you feel when your body heats up just a bit, from 37 to 40. Sweating? Shivering? Hot and cold waves?

As always, it depends on the context and on the individual

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 33 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I like how they claimed Fahrenheit made sense by relating it to a scale between 0 and 100 because a grade divided into 100 pieces (centigrade) is a system that is easy to handle. If only there was a unit of measurement that was already like that.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

No they're relating average earth temperature/weather to a centigrade scale, instead of relating liquid water to one.

[–] uienia@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

It is not average Earth temperature though.

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 3 points 2 hours ago

Average is one number, not a range. Do you mean standard deviation?

[–] Randynippletwist@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 6 hours ago

That fear is them realizing they are trapped talking to a clown who proudly is grinding 100 hours at work every week.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 45 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

and then theres Kelvin, where 0 literally is 0% hot

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 27 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Chrobin@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I have to be that guy: it's K, not °K.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Thank you for your service.

[–] Klear@quokk.au 13 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

We need a new scale where 0 is 0K and 100 is the temperature of the big bang.

[–] Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

May I suggest calling it the Morphius scale?

"The temperature will be 1 °M today"
"In the beginning it was 100 degrees Morphius"

[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 24 points 8 hours ago

Another balmy day of approximately 0 degrees out.

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 44 points 9 hours ago (14 children)

0 hot? So what about when it’s -40?

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 21 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

that's when the two scales collide...

-40FC...

'fucking cold'

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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 55 points 9 hours ago

-40% hot, that's pretty damn cold!

[–] hoch@lemmy.world 32 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

0% hot = 100% cold

so

-40% hot = 140% cold ❄️

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 13 points 9 hours ago

If it gets hot this year I'm going to go off to my partner about how its almost 0% cold.

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[–] harmbugler@piefed.social 13 points 9 hours ago

Is reading this what having a stroke feels like?

[–] realitista@lemmus.org 16 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

I mean, he's not wrong. Celsius is about how hot water is. As someone who has lived half my life on each continent and uses Celsius for everything, I do still think that Fahrenheit is a better unit to use for weather (except 0 not being freezing) while Celsius is better for everything else. But using 2 units is dumb so Celsius it is.

[–] uienia@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

They are indeed very wrong. Their percentage is gauged for a very specific climate, and is entirely subjective. You may personally and subjectively think it suits you, but it is not objectively a better unit to use for weather in the slightest. It would make no sense where I live for example.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 25 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Fahrenheit is about how hot water is, and how cold brine is, and how 180 is highly factorable. Celsius is about how hot water is and how 100 is nice in base 10.

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[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 9 points 8 hours ago (9 children)

Ummm... doesn't this description actually fit better with celsius? 0% hot is frozen. 100% hot is boiling. No?

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