Freedom units 💯 : memes

[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 111 points 10 months ago

If those Americans could read they'd be very upset.

[-] MrShankles@reddthat.com 17 points 10 months ago

I'd take offense if I could; but you're right... I think... idk, I can't think. I'm not upset, you're upset!

What's an up set?

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[-] Cyberwitch_7493@lemmy.dbzer0.com 95 points 10 months ago

I just use

30°C is hot, 20°C is nice 10°C is cold, 0°C is ice.

Obviously that won't apply everywhere, but in milder climates it works pretty good.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 50 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

And 40°C is the melting point of the human brain.

Which goes some way towards explaining some of the decisions happening in Florida, Texas and Arizona during their ridiculously hot summers..

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[-] AsterixTheGoth@lemmy.ml 17 points 10 months ago

and 30C° is a typo

[-] linux2647@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 10 months ago

40 is dying 50 is dead

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[-] RyeBread@feddit.de 11 points 10 months ago

It's the best way to think about it because if you're always doing the calculation in your head you still always think in Fahrenheit first. Just get the feeling for Celcius instead of trying to shoehorn a worse system in (as a user of said worse system myself).

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[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 71 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

For the other Americans that came into the thread hoping to see a conversion:

10c = 50f
30c = 86f

Edit: I'd like to note that 10c is a very reasonable temperature for shorts. I'm a Minnesotan (basically Canada lite (please annex us)), people start raising eyebrows at around 0C

[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 37 points 10 months ago

F = C * 1.8 + 32

Just want to leave this here

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 34 points 10 months ago

Oh come on. Now you expect us to learn math too??

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[-] STUPIDVIPGUY@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

its true, legs are immune to cold. shorts and a jacket is a reasonable outfit

[-] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 15 points 10 months ago

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[-] Fosheze@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

0C? Fellow Minnesotan here and I've definitely seen plent of people wearing shorts at temps below -5C. But I'm also in a college town so that may change things.

[-] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

I once amusedly watched girls sunbathe in bikinis at St. Lawrence University with patches of snow nearby in, I think March.

Conversely, I personally wore shorts and a tee one fine vacation in Florida around Christmas. It was 60f, and everybody was running around in jackets looking like they were in Chicago in January.

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[-] Ertebolle@kbin.social 49 points 10 months ago

Paraphrasing an old meme:

Fahrenheit - how hot humans feel
Celsius - how hot water feels
Kelvin - how hot atoms feel

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[-] MoonMoon@sh.itjust.works 38 points 10 months ago

C° or °C bud?

[-] Fosheze@lemmy.world 31 points 10 months ago

Jokes on you. I'm an american who works with scientific equipment so I mainly work in Celsius. Also live in Minnesota so we get the best of both worlds. Last winter hit almost -30C at times meanwhile tomorrow has a high of 39C with almost 70% humidity.

[-] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 14 points 10 months ago

I was going to make the joke that Minnesotan kids definitely know what -40°C is.

I moved up here from Florida to get out of this kind of heat and humidity. Thanks Minnesota. This is miserable.

[-] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 11 points 10 months ago

Minnesota is just lower Manitoba, you get the same insane 80c temperature variance

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[-] AffineConnection@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago

Americans know about °C, but what the hell is C°?

[-] vinyl@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

It's °C, but the temperature increases exponentially with every higher number

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[-] SonicBlue03@sh.itjust.works 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Most kids don't get degrees.

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[-] StarkillerX42@lemmy.ml 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I certainly know what degrees Celsius are, but I have no idea what Celsius degrees are supposed to be.

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[-] dmm@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

I prefer free health care units

[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Fuck it, it's 8 o'clock and 28°C with 60% already. We are not used to this shit here.

https://www.meteoblue.com/en/blog/article/show/40238_Heat+wave+in+Europe

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[-] Roundcat@lemmy.ca 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Here's a rough C° primer for Americans

0° or below, fucking cold

1° - 10° cold

11° - 20° cool

21° - 30° warm

31° - 40° hot

41° or above - Jesus Christ I'm on fire!

As for Fahrenheit for the rest of the world, on a scale from 0 to 100, how hot is it? Assume anything below zero is really fucking cold, and anything above 100 is really fucking hot.

[-] Hyperi0n@lemmy.film 11 points 10 months ago

-10° - -1° very cold

0° Water freezes

1° - 5° Cold

6° - 10° cool

11° - 16° warm

17° - 25° hot

26° - 30 very hot

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[-] regalia@literature.cafe 18 points 10 months ago

Why does the US live rent free in so many European's heads all the time?

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 33 points 10 months ago

Because each time we look for some English content, they use some dumb fantasy metrics based on the size fo the feet of a king for some reason, and we need to look up a converter to change it to a metric used in 195 different countries.

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[-] RoquetteQueen@slrpnk.net 14 points 10 months ago

I didn't know Canada and Australia were in Europe

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[-] sentore@beehaw.org 11 points 10 months ago

I love that the meme is about Canada, Australia, and the US(ish), yet it's the Europeans that get called out by this guy. Who's living rent free in whose head? ;)

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[-] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 16 points 10 months ago

Kelvin gang

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[-] theragu40@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

I was taught both.

Just like I was taught both metric and imperial.

I use both temp scales, though fahrenheit is more common.

I use both measurements scales, though imperial is more common.

One thing I've never understood though. Metric is more precise for measurements (at least without needing to involve fractional measures). I totally get why it's superior for a lot of things, and indeed it is used in many places for this exact reason.

Why would anyone say Celsius is better? Apart from freezing and boiling temps seeming somewhat arbitrary with fahrenheit, does it not allow for much higher precision with regards to temperature identification without resorting to decimals? Isn't this the same rationale used with metric vs imperial? It seems like a double standard to me, because remembering two temperatures (for boiling and freezing) seems like a small price to pay for a more precise system.

[-] LukeMedia@lemm.ee 12 points 10 months ago

I've always thought Fahrenheit was the better measurement in regards to weather. 0 F is uncomfortably cold, 100 F is uncomfortably hot. It makes so much sense for the weather. 0 C is freezing, 100 C you are dead. Of course, for most things Celsius makes more sense, and even though I live in the US I don't even know how to measure computer temperatures in F, it just sounds crazy. When it comes to weather though? Fahrenheit is where it is, in my opinion.

Please guys, I know plenty of you will disagree with me, that's okay, this is just my opinion. Please don't get upset I know metric is generally better!

[-] seejur@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I always found fahrenheit a lot more arbitrary: in Celsius 0 is the freezing of water, so if you are driving/walking, that is a very important temperature to look out for. Also 30 being hot or 100 being hot outside does not really make a difference. Some people find 30 hot, some other find it OK, since its subjective anyway

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[-] Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 10 months ago

Celcius is better if you didn't grow up drinking the USA koolaid

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[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Because precision has nothing to do with it and it's all about being easy to convert between different units and having sensible zero and 100-points for temperature?

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[-] Tedrick02@lemmy.today 13 points 10 months ago

Shorts in 10C is standard practice for me. Really not that cold for us in the NorthWest. Now if we're talking Southern Californians 10C is heavy winter jacket weather.

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[-] ilex@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Double Celsius and add 30. It'll get you close enough for environment temps.

10*2 is 20, plus 30 = 50.

(10°C × 9/5) + 32 = 50°F

30 doubled is 60, plus 30 is 90.

(30°C × 9/5) + 32 = 86°F

10°C is mild af. Who tf doesn't wear shorts when it's 50F?

If you want to sound more metal, tell people how cold it is in celsius. Was it kinda cold or was it in the negatives?

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[-] ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago

American here. Always knew C temps.

10 c cool 20 c perfect 30 c ok I need shade and a body of water 40 c wtf 50 c I’m dead

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[-] cogneato@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

30 is hot 20 is nice 10 is cold 0 is ice

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 points 10 months ago

Me, an American, laughs in PC temperatures always being in C

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