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  • systemdisc@piefed.worldS systemdisc@piefed.world

    For normal weather, 0°F to 100°F is easier to understand than -17°C to 38°C. Just like 0°C for freezing water and 100°C for boiling water is easier to remember. It’s just how our brains work. We like nice round numbers. Plus, there’s a higher fidelity between 0 and 100 than between -17 and 38.

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    steve2734@lemmy.ca
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    Easier to understand FOR YOU.

    There is a reason only 3 countries is the whole world use the imperial system of measurement.

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    • R reksas@sopuli.xyz

      every "you" is subjective, water is not.

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      captpretentious@lemmy.world
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      Water is not subjective? Interesting? So water will freeze exactly at 0 and boil at 100, and it won't matter about say pressure? Or whats in the water, like say salt? And pretty sure I've seen videos and done it myself where you bring pure water below 0 and it doesn't freeze. Suppose this video is just fake then? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Nse-LUpVQu8

      Seems water is a tad bit subjective. Like the rules for when it freezes and boils is... not exactly constant. I mean, they are, under ideal conditions on Earth. But... ya know, that sort of goes against the circlejerk....

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      • C calcopiritus@lemmy.world

        Is there anyone in this world needs a caliper of precision between 1cm and 1mm that can't afford a 1mm of precision caliper?

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        chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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        No, but between 0.1mm and 0.10mm is absolutely a thing.

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        • systemdisc@piefed.worldS systemdisc@piefed.world

          For normal weather, 0°F to 100°F is easier to understand than -17°C to 38°C. Just like 0°C for freezing water and 100°C for boiling water is easier to remember. It’s just how our brains work. We like nice round numbers. Plus, there’s a higher fidelity between 0 and 100 than between -17 and 38.

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          herrvogel@lemmy.world
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          It really makes no real difference for everyday use. The higher resolution of the scale is not relevant at all for deciding what to wear outside. It takes no time at all for your brain to adjust to either one of them. 38 becomes no different to you than a nice round 100.

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          • S simulation6@sopuli.xyz

            Ok, that's on me, I knew that existed. I meant adopt a metric time system.

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            rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works
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            I think Swatch tried something like this in the 90s....

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time

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            • C captpretentious@lemmy.world

              Water is not subjective? Interesting? So water will freeze exactly at 0 and boil at 100, and it won't matter about say pressure? Or whats in the water, like say salt? And pretty sure I've seen videos and done it myself where you bring pure water below 0 and it doesn't freeze. Suppose this video is just fake then? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Nse-LUpVQu8

              Seems water is a tad bit subjective. Like the rules for when it freezes and boils is... not exactly constant. I mean, they are, under ideal conditions on Earth. But... ya know, that sort of goes against the circlejerk....

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              reksas@sopuli.xyz
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              #306

              i'm quite sure average person doesnt have to deal with pressure differences, salinity, distilled water and such daily to such extent it makes water bad reference point, at least considering how we are basically made from water and life here is based on water.

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              • dojan@pawb.socialD dojan@pawb.social

                Water has different boiling and freezing temperatures depending on salinity, alcohol content, and atmospheric pressure.

                The 0 is freezing 100 is boiling is a good rough estimate but it's not a universal law.

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                reksas@sopuli.xyz
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                and how many differences do people have? give me universal law on how cold or hot person feels.

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                • R reksas@sopuli.xyz

                  and how many differences do people have? give me universal law on how cold or hot person feels.

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                  dojan@pawb.social
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                  Beyond 100F you have a fever.

                  I’m no proponent for the American system but that’s a decent point of reference.

                  0F though? No idea.

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                  • D damnedfurry@lemmy.world

                    212 warm / 100 warm
                    warm

                    Meme was made by a space shuttle tile.

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                    paradoxseahorse@lemmy.world
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                    warm

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                    • S simulation6@sopuli.xyz

                      Come up with a metric time system then. Also, fix the damn calendar.

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                      mostly_gristle@lemmy.world
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                      Also, fix the damn calendar

                      13 months, 28 days per month = 364 days. New Year's Day can be its own holiday separate from the rest of the year, and every fourth year it can be 2 days long.

                      Now we just need to get Big Calendar on board.

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                        korhaka@sopuli.xyz
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                        0 is absolute cold, any other system is wrong.

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                        • S steve2734@lemmy.ca

                          Easier to understand FOR YOU.

                          There is a reason only 3 countries is the whole world use the imperial system of measurement.

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                          systemdisc@piefed.world
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                          What is easier than “over 100 dangerous; under 0 dangerous”?

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                            halferect@lemmy.world
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                            Fun fact Americans do both

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                            • I imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com

                              And weight also revolves around water. 1L of water is 1KG which is 1000cm^3^ whereas 1cm^3^ is 1g. Super easy to calculate things.

                              Edit: correction

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                              pedz@lemmy.ca
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                              I once heard an American say something "weighs as much as a 2 liter bottle" and it made me raise an eyebrow.

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                              • J johanno@lemmy.dbzer0.com

                                It is better because it uses 2 times water as reference point.

                                Not one thing and then a completely different one.

                                We could for example set the 0 degrees at the freezing point of alcohol and 100 at the boiling point.

                                Or 0 at the boiling point of argon and 100 at the temperature it turns into plasma.

                                Both of these fictional scales are better than Fahrenheit.

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                                cethin@lemmy.zip
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                                You didn't answer why that makes it better. What functionality does it give us that we don't have if we use two reference points from different things. I'm pretty confident there aren't any. This is proven especially true because that's not how Celsius is defined anymore, and it didn't lose any functionality. It sounds more "pure", or whatever, but that doesn't make it better. Do you have an actual reason that it improves its functionality?

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                                • itisileclerk@lemmy.worldI itisileclerk@lemmy.world

                                  How do you define inch without metric units? How much is that?

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                                  omnipitaph@reddthat.com
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                                  Traditionally? An inch is three barley corns long.

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                                  • glitchdx@lemmy.worldG glitchdx@lemmy.world

                                    I don't think that freedom units are better, I think they're more fun, and I like having a bit of whimsy in these trying times.

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                                    omnipitaph@reddthat.com
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                                    This. There is nothing more immersive in a story set in the past than old-timey measurements. I want my potions in drams, I want my house measured in paces, I want to know how many leagues the city is across. I want cubits and spans for construction and stones, pounds, and smelt for weights.

                                    It makes the world more real, less sterile to have these human-centric measures.

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                                      Fun fact Americans do both

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                                      lifeinmultiplechoice@lemmy.world
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                                      I know no one in the U.S. that measures anything in yards outside of football. It's feet/miles. We don't say we are 2y1" tall.

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                                        i'm quite sure average person doesnt have to deal with pressure differences, salinity, distilled water and such daily to such extent it makes water bad reference point, at least considering how we are basically made from water and life here is based on water.

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                                        ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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                                        The average person doesn't live at sea level. More than half of all people have a boiling point of more than two degrees lower.
                                        Most water that people who live near sea level live near is salt water.

                                        If you're willing to accept that level of imprecision, you may as well go with average human body temperature, since it's literally our temperature.

                                        Both fahrenheit and Celsius are defined by relatively arbitrary standards in relatively arbitrary ways. One decided water should freeze 100 degrees from boiling, the other 180. Should ice be 2 orders of magnitude from boiling, or half a circle?

                                        Celsius should be preferred because it's the standard. Some french people decided they liked powers of ten more that others, so here we are. Thanks Napoleon.
                                        Neither system is adequate for the physically based goals of a modern unit system. Hence neither has any relationship to water anymore, instead being defined by actual physical invariants.

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                                        • L lifeinmultiplechoice@lemmy.world

                                          I know no one in the U.S. that measures anything in yards outside of football. It's feet/miles. We don't say we are 2y1" tall.

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                                          halferect@lemmy.world
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                                          All I'm saying is I am American and use both metric and imperial all the time and they both are good and suck for different reasons.

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