• otter@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    As you approach 0°F it is getting dangerously cold. As you approach 100°F it’s getting dangerously hot. Celsius is obviously better scientifically, but fahrenheit is pretty reasonable for everyday use (unlike other imperial measurements).

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      8 hours ago

      0°F is way colder than 100°F is hot.

      There are hardly any population centers that reach the lower temperature while there’s a shitton of them that reach the hotter one. That should say enough about how dangerous and inhospitable each is.

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        7 hours ago

        That’s not true. NYC frequently reaches 0°F and is home to 15 million people. All of northern US, and all of Canada frequently reach 0°F. It’s a fact than anything below 0°F is actively dangerous and anything above 100°F is actively dangerous.

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      1 day ago

      Really my point is you can memorize new numbers when you look at the weather report.

      When I go (went ) to the US it was not obvious to me looking at the weather in Fahrenheit what it would feel like.

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        1 day ago

        Of course. I’m just adding that there is some logic to fahrenheit in day to day use.