• yata@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, this gets repeated (by Americans) every time a discussion about temperature measuring systems comes up, but it is complete nonsense. The vast majority of Earth’s population are completely fine with measuring how hot they feel in celsius, it is only people who are unaccustomed to that system who thinks it is somehow unqualified to do that.

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      1 year ago

      American who lives in a country that uses C now.

      20=frickin cold 30=swampy ass 40=nope

      Not enough degrees of separation

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        1 year ago

        20 isn’t cold at all, it’s perfectly warm.

        10 is nippy, but you still warm up quick after a few minutes walking, and get sweaty if you’re working on something.

        0 is cold enough for a couple layers. Jumper + jacket so you can take one off if you warm up too much.

        -10 doesn’t feel that much different to 0.

        -20 is time to put on a thicker coat over the jumper.

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      1 year ago

      I lived for a third of my life in a country that uses Celsius, and the switch to Fahrenheit was not only seamless, it made much more sense to me intuitively. Whereas I was fine using Celsius, I don’t really want to go back.