• Squirrel@thelemmy.club
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    1 year 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.

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      1 year 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.