As an American I used to use a variation of this phrase.
Then I decided to experimentally switch to using Celsius. Took a few weeks/months to really internalize it and stop having to do on-the-fly conversions, but honestly I love it.
It’s remarkable how useful having 0 be freezing is for weather. It makes understanding sub-freezing temperatures much easier. Which also helps reinforce what a degree Celsius means.
I wish other Americans would try it. I haven’t gone back, all my devices are still on Celsius over five years later.
I might be alone on this but the freezing point of water is almost irrelevant in daily life. Any precipitation from 30°F (-1°C) to 35°F (1.5°C) results in some mix of snow/slush. Less than that and it’s snow/ice.
However if you live somewhere where they use salt as a de-icer, knowing the freezing point of saltwater (0°F, -17.7°C) is very, very important.
The arguments Fahrenheit’s defenders make are not objective, they vary from person to person. Does a hot summer’s day feel like 100%? Yes, no, maybe? For me it doesn’t, I’ve been in a sauna. Does an arbitrary distance below freezing feel like 0%? Or does 0% come earlier, i.e. once you can no longer exist without clothing?
If the defenders made arguments like “it’s neat to have 100° at body temperature” I wouldn’t say anything. But the arguments they make (see my quote) are not factual.
My brother in Satan, this is the dumbest shit I’ve ever seen on the fediverse. Your assumption that someone else is your brother in a superstition you were groomed into is offensive ignorant and regressive.
Bro… It’s a reference to a meme about subway sandwiches. Literally “Brother in Christ” was written over a scribbled out n word. I think you’re being a little overly heated over a meme phrase.
They say they’re Christian but don’t seem to like Christ.
May our dark lord illuminate the path to enlightenment and freedom from the oppression of superstition. In his name we invoke power to ourselves, hail Satan.
Americans shaking that 20-25C is more obvious than 68-77
Above 30 you just complain
25-30 you wear shorts
20-25 you wear whatever
15-20 you wear a t shirt and jeans
10-15 you consider a light jacket or a long sleeve
5-10 you firmly wear the light jacket or long sleeve
0-5 you bring a heavier coat
Below 0 you complain
Beautiful 5 degree increments that perfectly describe what to wear in C
Where with Fahrenheit you end up with weird numbers like 86 degrees
I tried going pretty general with the first one but my personal is between
0 to -5 I wear a coat
-5 to -10 consider gloves
-10 to -15 wear gloves
-15 to -20 wear heavy gloves
-20 to -30 wear glasses and a buff/mask
-30 to -40 add glove liners and question why I live in a place that gets this cold
Haven’t gone below -40 but I imagine it’s just complaining
“Fahrenheit describes the level of comfort for a human. From coldest to warmest that you may experience outside.”
0 is freezing. Can’t really get much easier than that.
It needs some adjustment. 0 is fine, but 68 should be the new 100. We shouldn’t have to exist in climates warmer than that.
50 degrees is just ok to me. Not cold, not hot
As an American I used to use a variation of this phrase.
Then I decided to experimentally switch to using Celsius. Took a few weeks/months to really internalize it and stop having to do on-the-fly conversions, but honestly I love it.
It’s remarkable how useful having 0 be freezing is for weather. It makes understanding sub-freezing temperatures much easier. Which also helps reinforce what a degree Celsius means.
I wish other Americans would try it. I haven’t gone back, all my devices are still on Celsius over five years later.
Make way for empirical chad.
I might be alone on this but the freezing point of water is almost irrelevant in daily life. Any precipitation from 30°F (-1°C) to 35°F (1.5°C) results in some mix of snow/slush. Less than that and it’s snow/ice.
However if you live somewhere where they use salt as a de-icer, knowing the freezing point of saltwater (0°F, -17.7°C) is very, very important.
Best response to this is to ask whether 50°F is a comfortable room temperature.
Actually, no. The best response is no response.
It’s a comfortable outdoor temperature.
Yep, there’s definitely nowhere it goes below 0 F. /s
Actually, the Persian Gulf gets above 100 regularly as well, if I have what that is in Celsius roughly correct.
Fahrenheit is cooler name than Celsius.
Disagree, ain’t nobody got time for that potatoe tumble
Why is that stupid? It’s based off salt water. You’re mostly salt water.
The arguments Fahrenheit’s defenders make are not objective, they vary from person to person. Does a hot summer’s day feel like 100%? Yes, no, maybe? For me it doesn’t, I’ve been in a sauna. Does an arbitrary distance below freezing feel like 0%? Or does 0% come earlier, i.e. once you can no longer exist without clothing?
If the defenders made arguments like “it’s neat to have 100° at body temperature” I wouldn’t say anything. But the arguments they make (see my quote) are not factual.
Oh, yeah. All temperature experience is subjective. It’s just that F is closer to “big round numbers” than C for our experiences.
Combined with the trite “Fahrenheit is for humans, celsius is for water”.
My brother in Christ. You are 70° water.
And what is a Major factor in weather? Water.
Yikes.
My brother in Satan, this is the dumbest shit I’ve ever seen on the fediverse. Your assumption that someone else is your brother in a superstition you were groomed into is offensive ignorant and regressive.
Bro… It’s a reference to a meme about subway sandwiches. Literally “Brother in Christ” was written over a scribbled out n word. I think you’re being a little overly heated over a meme phrase.
Maybe. All the same, I prefer to keep people’s icky superstitions from being normalized as “just meme phrases”
There used to be a lot of those that people would say that they don’t anymore.
I’m 100% allowed to hate Christianity and not want it pointed at me in any way. I’m allowed to be overly heated about it too.
In my country Christians have made my daughters the first generation of American women to have fewer rights than their mothers did.
So “my brother in Christ” is the same to me as “my brother in the acceptable oppression of others”
Fuck that shit.
oh god, it’s just a saying, chillax
Never.
Can’t tell if serious.
That’s how I feel about every Christian
They say they’re Christian but don’t seem to like Christ.
May our dark lord illuminate the path to enlightenment and freedom from the oppression of superstition. In his name we invoke power to ourselves, hail Satan.
Okay, so you are serious.
Dude, it’s a meme quote. OP is statistically very likely an atheist, since this is Lemmy.
I find it offensive
In the parlance of our time : it’s a micro-aggression
Like using “Jew” as a verb
This is lemmy shouldn’t we be more enlightened?
Well, you can feel that way I guess, but good luck getting anybody to care.
Europeans shaking and crying at the realization that the difference between 70° and 75° is more obvious and meaningful than 21.11° and 23.88°
Americans shaking that 20-25C is more obvious than 68-77
Above 30 you just complain 25-30 you wear shorts 20-25 you wear whatever 15-20 you wear a t shirt and jeans 10-15 you consider a light jacket or a long sleeve 5-10 you firmly wear the light jacket or long sleeve 0-5 you bring a heavier coat Below 0 you complain
Beautiful 5 degree increments that perfectly describe what to wear in C Where with Fahrenheit you end up with weird numbers like 86 degrees
I like that scale, but Ottawa exists: can you give us the various levels of lament from 0 down to -40 or -50?
And is there a bonus wind scale to add to the suck?
I tried going pretty general with the first one but my personal is between 0 to -5 I wear a coat -5 to -10 consider gloves -10 to -15 wear gloves -15 to -20 wear heavy gloves -20 to -30 wear glasses and a buff/mask -30 to -40 add glove liners and question why I live in a place that gets this cold Haven’t gone below -40 but I imagine it’s just complaining
Take your scale and bump it down by 5 degrees C and you have my personal scale.
I don’t understand why the difference between 70 ad 75 is more obvious than 21 and 24. Can you explain it?
*Europeans, Asians, Africans, southamericans, australiaandoceanians and 23/24 of northamericans
*21.11°