• Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      6
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      edit-2
      3 days ago

      The arguments for Fahrenheit get stranger and stranger. First vibe designing measurement systems and now it’s got more resolution

      • Dabundis@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        2 days ago

        If you take issue with defining units based on vibes i have terrible news about the second, the meter, and the kilogram. Basically any unit is arbitrary until it becomes a standard

          • Dabundis@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            4 hours ago

            The thing that makes any unit useful is being an agreed upon standard, which is true of both F and C. the “feel right” part is just how it got there. When Celsius stuck a thermometer in freezing water and marked its position, he called that 100 degrees based on vibes. Later on, a french academic decided that actually freezing should be 0 and boiling should be 100, and that decision was based on vibes. Why is it any different when Farenheit made a vibes based decision to put 0 in a different spot than celsius?

            • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              2 hours ago

              I don’t know if you’re making a joke but this is about someone claiming Fahrenheit is better because “zero feels pretty cold and 100 pretty hot” lol

    • Rob Bos@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      3 days ago

      That is a weird argument. TBH there are only like six ACTUAL temperatures: fucking hot, hot, warm, cool, cold, fuckin’ cold. Everything else is paperwork and doesn’t really inform your day to day. The difference between say 30 and 29C is maybe undoing a button on your shirt.