Celsius is the superior scale:
100° is the perfect temperature inside the Sauna.
0° is the perfect temperature of the water you jump in after the Sauna.
If only it was like that
Submitted 10 months ago by STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 10 months ago
YoorWeb@lemmy.world 10 months ago
namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev 10 months ago
I work with Americans and this hits home hard. It’s especially infuriating when they format their dates. “I had a meeting with so-and-so on 4/5” and nobody has any fucking clue what they mean.
The worst part is how hopelessly oblivious they are about it. It’s not even like they don’t care that nobody does things their stupid way - it’s the fact that they’re so insulated that they can’t even fathom that nobody does things the same way they do. It just goes to show how clueless they are about the rest of the world and how little they get out of their neighborhoods.
It drives me mad. At this point, it’s just offensive how ignorant they can be sometimes. If you have to work with other people, you should at least make an effort to be aware of the fact that others do things a different way and try to avoid situations like this, but they just refuse to do so.
Apologies… /rant
doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Isn’t basing a temperature scale on the freezing and boiling points of water a bit arbitrary in and of itself?
The reason they are arbitrary numbers in Fahrenheit is because they weren’t considerations when the scale was made.
Venicon@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
I would like to dump on America for this but as Scotland is in the UK we have some unholy abomination of in between when it comes to our measurements.
droog_the_droog@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Found the Finn, everyone
KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Perkele!
Resol@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’ve never been to a sauna before, but are you guys okay with boiling yourselves and then immediately freezing yourselves? Doesn’t that seem very painful? Are you guys used to being Wim Hof all the time?
Deme@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The thing to remember is that air is a great insulator. Air at 100°C isn’t nearly as bad as say water or metal at the same temperature against the skin. In fact, the air that comes in contact with the comparatively cold human skin will cool down rapidly, lessening the sensation of heat further.
sebsch@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
100°C is a quite hot one. It could hurt your nose and ears a bit, especially if they having a steaming session.
The cold water (normally ~10°C) does not hurt at all. The first minute your brain is not able to differentiate the temperature at all. After that it gets quite quickly into: ohh I should leave!
Btw: you should try sauna at some point. Especially with the steaming it’s amazing. There are also milder ones with ~80°C, I would recommend at the start.
DrMango@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yes. It’s wonderful. It feels great physically and mentally. Wim Hoff is a bit crazy tho tbh
Agent641@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Wim Hof, the guy who ahredded his intestines by giving himself an enema from a public water fountain while waiting to meet his estranged son?
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 10 months ago
You don’t actually start boiling at 100C lol
Asudox@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I object. Kelvin is the superior one.
Resol@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Hmm, I sure love adding 273.15 to literally every single temperature I encounter
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Found the Scandinavian
NaoPb@eviltoast.org 10 months ago
I’ve never heard Celsius be explained more perfect than this. Thank you.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Fahrenheit is like school grades: 60 is minimum tolerance and beyond 100 adds nothing but misery.
Zehzin@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Anything past 80F adds nothing but misery
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Is it bad that this association exists in my mind because of a Kids Next Door joke?
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Hell yeah C’s get degrees while perfect A students tend to burn up in the world
Infynis@midwest.social 10 months ago
I’d say 50 is perfect
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This guy fats
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 10 months ago
I diagnose you with “weak, non-Finnish blood.”
MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Put a coat on, loser
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Found the Canadian
DharmaCurious@startrek.website 10 months ago
Between 50 and 63 I’m in heaven. Anything higher than that and all i want to do is go swimming, which as an adult with responsibilities, i never get to. Anything lower than that, and i have to wear more clothes and look fatter than i am.
emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
What the fuck, aren’t most buildings kept at 72? How do you exist anywhere except in a walk in fridge?
bmsok@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I agree in Midwestern as I put on my shorts and tshirt
dingus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
As a former Midwesterner (grew up there and loved there for 26 years), I never got used to the cold so I eventually moved South.
But turns out now I get cold at anything below 70F lol.
0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Exactly! 👍
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Fahrenheit is the best human-focused temperature scale. 0 is super cold, 100 is super hot, 50 is the line between short sleeve and long sleeve weather (assuming no wind). Anything outside these bounds, it simply isn’t worth going outside. But then everyone at a latitude <|37| will say "that’s not that hot and everyone at a latitude >|40| will say "that’s not that cold, so really it’s the best Kansas-focused temperature scale
psud@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Because weather is simple, right?
Custoslibera@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“It’s snowing so climate change can’t be real!”
bjorney@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
“the perfect scale”
Proceeds to list completely arbitrary temperatures and link them to completely subjective opinions
I can make all the same points about celsius but they make even more sense
0 freezing 10 cool 20 room temperature 30 hot 40 very hot
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Yeah I guess I agree, 0 to 40 makes much more sense in the context of temperatures humans typically exist in than 0 to 100
Bleach7297@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Look, you’re entitled to your opinion but I think it’s a bit Kansocentric.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 10 months ago
“It’s the best scale if you happen to live in the perfect conditions for it”
Thorry84@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Not to defend Fahrenheit, it’s a nonsense scale, however: As with most subjective scales the entire scale can be split into good and not good. The top part is good and the bottom part is not good. The middle of the top part is seen as average good.
So around 75 degrees would be perfect, which is close enough for something as subjective as temperature.
This is why in things like movie or game reviews a 7/10 is seen as average. Like it’s good, in the good part, but right in the middle not anything special. A 5/10 or lower is seen as not good, not worth seeing, not worth your time etc. This works for reviews, grades, person attractiveness rating etc.
Norgur@kbin.social 10 months ago
Yet, Temperature is not a nonlinear star-rating by IGN, is it?
Thorry84@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Are you saying global warming is actually caused by the bias of IGN reviewers?
Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Can you prove that?
doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Why not? Most people only meaningfully engage with temperature scales when checking weather forecasts. It’s all pretty subjective.
If course there’s a need for Celsius or Kelvin in scientific applications, but that’s not for the overwhelming majority of people.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 10 months ago
75 perfect?
jenny_ball@lemmy.world 10 months ago
i appreciate your level headed analysis
EyesInTheBoat@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Every time someone brings this up, another decade gets added until the US switches to Metric
NaoPb@eviltoast.org 10 months ago
You mean another arm.
elscallr@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Weather/room temp wise we probably never will. I’d rather think of my environment in terms of 0 to 100 than in terms of -18 to 38. For science and engineering, Celsius is ideal, and I can convert between the two because I’m not an idiot who can’t do basic math.
Sanyanov@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s entirely a matter of habit. There is nothing special about 0°F or 100°F, you’ve been lied to.
We don’t think -18°C to 38°C, we think -50°C to +50°C, with 0°C differentiating between snow/ice, “wintery” weather, and rain/mud, “non-wintery” one. That’s how we know whether to take umbrella (no point if it snows, hat is your best friend), what kind of shoes are the best fit - cold-resistant or highly waterproof - or which kind of jacket is gonna fit the situation.
When it’s not winter, normal range is 0-40°C, with 20°C designating comfort temperature.
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
For science and engineering, Celsius is ideal,
The SI base unit for temperature is Kelvin with 0 K being the coldest possible temperature. 273.15 K is the melting point of ice. But it’s a lot better suited for temperature differences. Celsius is only a derived unit.
And well, all units and measurement systems had a lot of changes over time because some things turned out to be impractical or inaccurate.
Initially Celsius had 100° as the freezing point of water, 0° as the boiling point of water. Fahrenheit had 0° as the coldest temperature he could produce and the (wrong) average human body temperature at 90°. Kelvin was initially defined via Celsius, that got reversed, they have the same scale. There is also Rankine, which starts at 0 like Kelvin, but uses the Fahrenheit scale.
And the US partially uses SI units anyways, all units are derived from them to use their superior base unit definitions. This system came into existence to have unit definitions that are better reproducible and change less over time. Since everything was redefined and all numbers changed anyways, they also tried to make use of the “new” decimal representation of numbers. And new unit names were nice to create some general units, in contrast to foot and pound, which were always different from place to place, at times even from city to city.
I don’t expect the US to ever switch. The US switched to international yard and pound instead of switching to a decimal system. After US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa agreed on that one, all countries who remained using these units had a uniform definition for them. Since then you don’t need to know any longer which yard or pound it was. Though not all units got standardized by that.
And some countries didn’t drop all old units and metricized some instead. Even SI kept the ton(ne). You can’t know what 1t exactly means without knowing the context, it can be 2240lb, 2000lb or 1000kg (~2204.6226lb).
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Aviation is already backwards; aviators give distance to travel in nautical miles, visibility in statute miles, altitude and runway length in feet, speed in knots, weight in pounds, volume in gallons, and temperature in celsius. My favorite is the standard adiabatic lapse rate is given as 2°C/1000 feet.
ferralcat@monyet.cc 10 months ago
Celcius us a horrible scale for science or engineering. The world literally explodes when water freezes.
doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
There are many people (particularly in northern regions) who would consider 50° to be quite mild/pleasant
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
this meme also works in Celsius.
hark@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If you score 100 on a test then that’s a perfect, therefore 100 is the perfect temperature.
0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Don’t impose your imperialistic temperature views on the rest of us! Leave us cold lovers alone!
Maggoty@lemmy.world 10 months ago
50 is indeed perfect.
doctorcrimson@lemmy.world 10 months ago
NGL I could be jogging outside at windless 50 degrees everyday. That would be a dream compared to my current life in the hell that is the 47th Latitude Great Plains Region.
Wilzax@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Indoor temp? No Outdoor temp? Yes
NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 10 months ago
69°F
theblueredditrefugee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Inb4 nonlinear temperature scale
Dick_Justice@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Hell yeah, 50 degrees is tee shirt and shorts weather IMHO.
Firipu@startrek.website 10 months ago
Same for c, but at half the scale tbh. (with a bit of a stretch to the imagination)
50 is very hot. 0 is cold. 25c is perfect.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 months ago
50f is pretty comfy unless you hate long sleeves.
MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
As a person from the north, it really is.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
We could make it work like that. Just have the thermometer be narrower at the bottom.
nixcamic@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’ve lived in 3 different countries in like 5 different climate zones and none of them had temperatures that fit nicely in the 0-100⁰F range.
Fridgeratr@lemmy.world 10 months ago
As a Wisconsinite, 50° IS perfect!
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Interestingly if you take the middle of the freezing point (32F) and 100F, you do get a mildly warm 71. No this does not prove anything, yes I’ll still say it.
Then if you average THAT with 50, you get 60.5… and you see all three numbers make a triangle. Illuminati confirmed.elscallr@lemmy.world 10 months ago
50 is great for just a light jacket and jeans. You’ll never get too hot, you won’t get too cold. So, yeah, as long as you’ve got clothes on it’s pretty perfect.
If I want to wear less clothes then 70 is a good bit better, but 50 is damn comfortable.
thorbot@lemmy.world 10 months ago
50 degree Fahrenheit is perfect. Fahrenheit is still retarded though
Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world 10 months ago
50 degrees is perfect for me, t shirt and shorts weather.
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Fahrenheit is based on how the human body tells temperature and I’ll die on that hill.
Celsius is for water and Kelvin is for molecules.
Using Celsius or Kelvin for scientific measurement makes sense.
Using fahrenheit for the average person just checking the atmospheric temperature makes sense.
You can use different scales for different things ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Lizardking27@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Is a 5/10 average? Or is that 7/10?
DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Yes
thedarkfly@feddit.nl 10 months ago
I checked for others who, like me, are too European to understand the joke: 50°F is 10°C.
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 10 months ago
A nice swedish summer evening (if it isnt raining).
0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Why wasn’t I born in Sweden 😭.
de_lancre@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Or a nice winter in the Balkans.
0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
That’s just about perfect if you ask me.
florge@feddit.uk 10 months ago
You mean too rest of the world
RedIce25@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Perfect for me would be more around 20°C
Siegfried@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ah, 10 is fine…
Nythos@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Shorts weather that one
MartinXYZ@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I checked too before I saw your comment, I can confirm.
ByteJunk@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The hero we needed.
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Thanks bro I was about to ask