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Comic strip of a ghost and a person with the American flag pasted on the head. The ghost repeats “Boo!” in the first three panels without getting any reaction, but when it in the fourth panel says “kg, cm, km, °C” the American gets scared and screams “AHHHH!!!”.

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  • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]@hexbear.net
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    If it’s 0 F, it’s 0% hot out. If it’s 50 F, it’s 50% hot out, if it’s 100F, it’s 100% hot out.

    It’s a more human measurement. Who the hell knows how long a kilometer or meter is? Everyone knows what a football field looks like and a yard is 1/100th of it.

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      I mean… I could say the same thing about Celsius and it would make the exact same amount of sense.

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          100°C is an acceptable sauna temperature. You won’t last much longer naked in 0°C!

          Edit: To make my point more clear, I know some crazy people who go directly from a close to 100 degree sauna to a close to 0 degree ice bath. I think that could be described quite well as going from 100 to 0 % within the human temperature tolerance.

          Also, that’s not my initial point. My initial point was that “percent hot outside” means nothing in Fahrenheit or Celsius.

          (whoops, pressed delete instead of edit)

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        It has never been literally boiling outside (except for when you’re in the middle of a forest fire or next to a lava flow).

        Besides, Fahrenheit is more scientific because it translates 1:1 to Rankine, where 0 is absolute zero.

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          Percent of what, exactly? It has been a lot more than 100 Fahrenheit and a lot less than 0.

          Edit: Kelvin is the scientific standard with 0 at absolute zero, and that translates directly to Celsius.

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              Are you just trolling? “100% hot out” literally doesn’t mean anything.

              Edit: Ah, I see :P

              But the human body temp isn’t 100 °F, though

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      The heck is 50% hot out? How is that even helpful lmao

      28°c is a nice weather but 82.4°f(or 82.4% hot) sounds unlivable.

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        Lol 82.4°F is hot af. Depending on the humidity it could be quite uncomfortable.

        Truly unlivable would be anything over 100.

        50 is fairly mild. Cool, but not really cold at all. Long sleeves, pants, maybe a light jacket weather.

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          No it’s not, as i live in the equator, and that’s the issue i have with fahrenheit. The whole thing is devoid of context and people think it makes sense naturally.

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            Are you trying to say people can live in a sauna? The whole point is they’re so hot you can’t (safely) stay in them too long.

            I’m obviously not saying that people spontaneously combust above that temp.

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        82.4°f is pretty decent weather. Unlivable is more like 100°f+, hence the “100% hot” scale. Nice weather would be 75°f, which makes sense when you think of it in terms of the “0-100% hot” scale.

        I agree that other things like distance, volume, etc are better in metric. I really wish the US would just standardize metric UOM in general. But I do think fahrenheit is better for temperature.

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      Who the hell knows how long a kilometer or meter is?

      Everyone outside of America.

      Everyone knows what a football field looks like

      You’re either trolling or a living embodiment of the ‘Americans think the USA is the whole world’ meme. Nobody outside of the USA knows how long a football field is.

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      I get what you’re saying, but only people who live in a country where (American) football is played would know how big a football field is.