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Yeah, 100°C is pretty warm

100 warm

Yeah, I suppose that's one way to describe 100°C

C is even more intuitive than the graphic.

0 = water's frozen 100 = water's boiling

Calling the boiling point of water simply "warm" is a bit sus.

As a European living in the US now for many years the temperature scale is the least of my annoyances. It's easy enough to memorize be ranges for what to wear. Fahrenheit is more granular, which is nice sometimes but really doesn't matter.

No, let's convert all the ridiculous weight/volume measures first. Having two kinds of ounces makes no sense. Measuring solids by volume (mostly) doesn't make sense. Having different units for different magnitudes doesn't make sense.

Fortunately things are often labeled in both metric and customary units so I can convert way easier.

Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to have my 12 fluid ounces of coffee and a 1/3 cup of oatmeal.

My water does not describe 100°C as "warm"

The original Fahrenheit system was actually pretty clever. It set 0° at the temperature of brine and 96° at internal body temperature. That made marking a thermometer really easy. Like, ridiculously easy. 96 is divisible by two many times before reaching a decimal.

Because the freezing temperature of water was really close to 32°, the later Fahrenheit system set that as the lower temperature and 212° as the boiling point instead of using body temperature. That made marking a thermometer more difficult, and basically took away Fahrenheit’s only advantage. It was more consistent though. Now Fahrenheit is formally defined based on Kelvin.

Centigrade was originally marked as 100° at the freezing temperature, going down as temperature increases to 0° at the boiling temperature. Obviously that didn’t last long. The downside is that marking a Celsius thermometer depended on atmospheric pressure. Now Celsius is defined based on Kelvin by -273.15° being absolute zero and a degree corresponding to a very specific amount of heat energy increase.

So yeah, Fahrenheit hasn’t made any sense for many many years.

Soon it won’t matter anyways. Isn’t AmericaUS like..done now? We can move on with our normal shit and chuckle at it like a museum piece.

The US could have switched to the world-wide standard years ago but under Reagan the switch was abandoned.

The one thing that bothers me about the metric system is how much of it is never actually used. No one says "1 megameter", for example. They say "1,000 kilometers". When you think about it, most metric prefixes are never used with most metric units.

Metric time ❤️

Tbf as someone who grew up with the imperial system due to being raised by a British boomer its fairly easy if you're familiar with it, I still often cook in imperial due to a load of old cook books I have.

Having said that anyone who wants the imperial system in the modern day is a absolute idiot, metric is objectively superior.

212 warm / 100 warm
warm

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in this thread: USAians consooming epic amounts of copium.

Never got this. I saw one fucking dumb american actually defend the rrtarded system by saying "It's actually more precise" - what a fucking stupid thing to say, when you don't even have a smaller unit than freaking Inches. Atleast we have mm. You guys use 1\4 Inch. Wtf is that??

Yes... Thank you British Empire, French Empire, and Spanish Empire for your contributions to the system.

-British: Mile, Foot, Inch, Yard

-Spanish: Dollar, from the Spanish Pieces of 8

-French: You know what you did

If you think Imperial is a better system, you're the perfect example of the American education system at work.

In case those were too many words...

You stupid.

Celsius makes most sense in places that experience proper winter.

Is it above 0? Then the snow is melting. Is it below 0? Then the melted snow has turned into slippery ice. Have fun!