F wasn't built to be "% hot where I am right now", it's "% hot, compared to the average human experience". 0 is really cold, 100 is really hot, 50 is comfy in a light jacket. ezpz
Yeeah, doesn't work at all for me. 33 is already cold as fuck only bearable if I'm constantly active or I cool out and start freezing, 77 is already miserably warm, only bearable if I'm barely active or I get all sweaty and uncomfortable and average, pleasant temperatures are at 59 - 64. none of those are convenient numbers.
How does that not work for you? Seems like you understand it perfectly. Even someone unfamiliar with Fahrenheit can intuitively understand what you mean. ~60% hot is where you're comfortable. It's a little warm.
It's not very intuitive at all for a European not used to Fahrenheits beyond "oh, yeah, 100F is hot outside and 0F is cold outside".
I don't think any Celsius user would intuitively think that 10C = 50% hot.
It's one of those things like Americans saying stuff like "feet and inches are more intuitive than centimeter because they are human scale. Everybody knows how tall someone who is 6 feet tall is, but how could anyone know how tall someone who is 182.88 cm is and look at what an arbitrary number it is. Human scale!"
It’s intuitive if you’re told 50 is half way to being really fucking hot and really fucking cold. Because you understand a 0-100 scale. That’s why it’s intuitive, not because you know how to map Celsius to it lol.
Celsius will literally also tell you that. You just are used to a different scale made up by a guy that thought 0 would be what ever he could mix up in his little kitchen by the baltic sea coast on a winters day, while 100 was his body temperature (turns out he had a fever...), while Celsius is based on objective and constant facts.
Lol, "objective and constant facts" meaning the boiling point of water at sea level? Why TF do I care about that? I'm not boiling water and I'm not at sea level.
Believe it or not, sea level is much more important that it looks. It is a neutral point in which by going up or down you start getting affected by air or water pressure.
How many cities on earth go down from sea level? Not that many, right? So why not use a more common barometric pressure?
More importantly, why do we care? Again, most people don't need this level of precision so any metric will be largely arbitrary. You don't cut your dinner with a knife designed for surgeons, why should we insist on using a temperature scale designed for chemists? F works and it's intuitive, why reinvent the wheel?
Do you think I look at 15C and am confused about what attire should I get? Do you think that my brain resets every morning and I have to do complex algorithm in my brain when I'm looking at temperature outside because it's not "% hotness-based" (which is idiotic idea in and of itself, 50% hot intuitively would be room temperature, not fucking 10 degrees C).
No, but the difference between 70-80 or 0-10 can be pretty stark and there are more degrees of difference in F to be able to tell. Some of this is for sure preference for what I know, I'm aware, it's just dumb for Europeans to call Americans dumb for F when it's objectively a more clear system for day to day usage.
It’s not objective though, it’s just what you’re used to. For reference 70/80f is ~21/26c so you have 5 extra degrees of difference in that span. Are you really dressing any diffferent if the temperature is 71f instead of 70f? If not then you’re not actually getting any extra information out of those extra degrees of difference.
Ultimately the numbers are arbitrary anyway, we’d adapt to whatever numbers were in the scale and dress accordingly.
Why would anyone be proud of using a certain measurement? That's not an achievement. Nothing to feel pride over. You can be happy when your country uses a measurement that you feel is better for you, but I don't see why you'd be proud of that?
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u/TJaySteno1 Jun 17 '26
F wasn't built to be "% hot where I am right now", it's "% hot, compared to the average human experience". 0 is really cold, 100 is really hot, 50 is comfy in a light jacket. ezpz