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    1 day ago

    It’s like people making these memes don’t understand that intuition is learned. One is not universally more intuitive than the other

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        Not at all. I find Celsius much more intuitive but I’m not trying to argue that that is universally true.

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          You’re right, Rankine is clearly the best.

          (Anyone actually know what Rankine even is outside something ddg told me exists?)

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            Mechanical engineer from a power plant here. Rankine is the best, can confirm. Room temp is like 530 degrees. Now that makes sense.

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              God I love it when I walk inside when its hot and the temperature is just under 530. The best feeling ever.

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                You made it sound so nice I set my thermostat at 530 too. The solder melted out of my TV and the magazines on the coffee table spontaneously ignited. On the plus side I can cook a pizza in the living room now instead of getting up to go to the kitchen.

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        Not really. Easy conversion is the whole point. One litre of water weighs one kilogram (depending on temperature) and fits into a 10x10x10 cm cube.

        Compare that with: one quart of water weighs 2.086 pounds and fits into a 3.86 × 3.86 × 3.86 inch cube.

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      I think the point of the meme is that it’s a silly premise, and few people actually believe things like this

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    I don’t ever see people bring up the fact that Fahrenheit contains more whole numbers.

    20c -> 68f

    21c -> 69.8f

    22c -> 71.6f

    23c -> 73.4f

    A lot of people notice the different between 68, 69, 70, 71, and 72 Fahrenheit. But Celsius has massive gaps in the measurements of these temperatures. Which is ironically very important to the average American, due to the use of thermostats and air-conditioning.

    Of course a computerized system will use the decimals to get the correct temperature.

    But conversationally, you’d have to include the decimals, which is too complicated for casual chit chat.

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      Brother I can’t tell the difference between 22 and 24c, how the hell will I the difference between 69 and 70?

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          A home thermostat will commonly have a multi degree range for turning on and off to avoid excessive cycling and then individual rooms can have multi degree differences from the thermostat and then even in an individual room you can get multi degree differences from the ceiling to the floor

          So while changing the actual setpoint can change it from comfortable to uncomfortable you still likely can’t tell the difference between a 1F difference

          That is before even accounting for humidity or airflow which can make even bigger differences

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            That’s odd, I’m always able to know exactly what the temperature is in a room when I walk in. Including the humidity percentage in 5 point increments.

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      1. Remove everything to the left of the video ID, the “?is=xxxxxxxxxxxxxx” part is just there for tracking.
      2. As for the claim itself, it is dumb to argue what temperature scale is better to use outside of scientific/technical applications, it is just down to personal preference, what you are used to.
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      Fahrenheit is German for “driveability”

      50 degrees Fahrenheit means the roads are 50% driveable

      0 degrees Fahrenheit the roads are too icy to drive