Comment on xkcd #3001: Temperature Scales
Krauerking@lemy.lol 3 weeks agoYeah well obviously wasn’t planned for a global scale and you can thank European mindset 300 years ago for that so it is definitely scaled for arable land in higher latitudes.
It wasn’t very technical cause I mean they just weren’t back then. Heck ask a baker what a pinch is.
But for trying to come up with a scale to give people a way to talk about the temperature in Poland was the point and it’s just stuck for people that are using it same as those using other methods. It wasn’t and isn’t about you.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
This was about “scale makes sense for human experience of weather” in comparison to Celsius though. What I’ve wondered is how does it make any more sense than Fahrenheit.
Krauerking@lemy.lol 3 weeks ago
Yeah and it’s been explained and you avoid it by saying it doesn’t work for you.
So the conversation is over.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I didn’t avoid it, I was just hoping that there’d be an explanation that would make sense. “Well you know, this weather is around this degree and this around this, or maybe not, very natural and intuitive” wasn’t very convincing lol. No offense.