americans are like fuck america until it’s time for fahrenheit-celsius discourse 😒 then you mfs basically pull out the pledge of alliance 😒 like ok fourth of july. didn’t know units of measurement had oil 😒
“it’s the superior system for the human experience” no it’s just intuitive to you because since you were a kid people around you would refer to temperatures in fahrenheit so you developed an understanding of what a certain number of degrees in fahrenheit means. also ‘human experience of temperature’ like yeah i’m sure a norwegian and a pakistani have the same human experience of temperature. or even someone from minnesota and someone from arizona but okay. “it’s better for colder areas” then why aren’t icelanders or siberians using it. maybe because they don’t see a negative number and panic cos that’s too scary for them. “it’s more precise for body heat” we have decimals. is anything that’s not a positive integer scary
Every time this comes up I’m so baffled by the sheer number of people in the notes who think that 84 °F is just an inherently comprehendable number that people understand intuitively and 29°C isn’t, even though thats like saying English is inherently more comprehensible than French. Like yeah, to YOU, because thats what you learned.
Also, as a somewhat northerly Canuck, the idea that the temperature at which water freezes is completely irrelevent to human life is VERY funny to me. Id go so far as to say that for half the year, whether the number is + or - is the single most important piece of information the forecast provides.
Oh my god thank you! Especially for the temperature in which the water freezes - this is very important to know if there’s a chance the rain that fell last night will be a nice, super slippery layer of ice today.