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[-] Thaumiel@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Hard agree with metric for the most part. I forever stand by Fahrenheit for temperatures you experience, and Celsius for science. I don't want to have to use decimals in my everyday life, but that's just me

And really, K is the ideal temperature unit for scientific purposes, since there's actually a hard starting point, rather than picking an arbitrary state change at an arbitrary pressure of a kind of arbitrary compound.

[-] adriaan@sh.itjust.works 35 points 7 months ago

The measurement for temperatures you experience really does not matter outside of what you're used to, do you think non-Americans get confused about how cold 6°C or 23°C is?

[-] Squirrel@thelemmy.club 9 points 7 months ago

Temperature scale doesn't matter in daily life, so I hate that there's always this argument about which scale makes more sense. Knowing what a given temperature feels like is no more difficult than remembering that water freezes at 32 degrees fahrenheit and boils at 212.

I'm all for a system based around multiples of 10, but for temperature, even Celsius isn't done that way, other than 0 and 100.

[-] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 8 points 7 months ago

Which is why Kelvin is superior.

[-] shrugal@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Every temperature scale in our usual range is pretty arbitrary at the end of the day, but you have to admit that the fixpoints of Fahrenheit are particularly useless in everyday life.