W Celsius
2026-04-24 09:51 UTC
Replies (40)
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@pulsewidth@lemmy.world 2026-04-24 10:06
C is even more intuitive than the graphic. 0 = water’s frozen 100 = water’s boiling
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@Mok98@feddit.it 2026-04-24 10:21
My water does not describe 100°C as “warm”
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@DahGangalang@infosec.pub 2026-04-24 13:27
100 warm Yeah, I suppose that’s one way to describe 100°C
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@markz@suppo.fi 2026-04-24 10:04
Yeah, 100°C is pretty warm
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@elephantium@lemmy.world 2026-04-24 22:15
Calling the boiling point of water simply "warm" is a bit sus.
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@folekaule@lemmy.world 2026-04-24 12:25
As a European living in the US now for many years the temperature scale is the least of my annoyances. It's easy enough to memorize be ranges for what to wear. Fahrenheit is more granular, which is nice sometimes but really doesn't matter. No, let's convert all the ridiculous weight/volume measures first. Having two kinds of ounces makes no sense. Measuring solids by volume (mostly) doesn't make sense. Having different units for different magnitudes doesn't make sense. Fortunately things are often labeled in both metric and customary units so I can convert way easier. Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to have my 12 fluid ounces of coffee and a 1/3 cup of oatmeal.
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@hperrin@lemmy.ca 2026-04-24 10:33
The original Fahrenheit system was actually pretty clever. It set 0° at the temperature of brine and 96° at internal body temperature. That made marking a thermometer really easy. Like, ridiculously easy. 96 is divisible by two many times before reaching a decimal. Because the freezing temperature of water was really close to 32°, the later Fahrenheit system set that as the lower temperature and 212° as the boiling point instead of using body temperature. That made marking a thermometer more difficult, and basically took away Fahrenheit’s only advantage. It was more consistent though. Now Fahrenheit is formally defined based on Kelvin. Centigrade was originally marked as 100° at the freezing temperature, going down as temperature increases to 0° at the boiling temperature. Obviously that didn’t last long. The downside is that marking a Celsius thermometer depended on atmospheric pressure. Now Celsius is defined based on Kelvin by -273.15° being absolute zero and a degree corresponding to a very specific amount of heat energy increase. So yeah, Fahrenheit hasn’t made any sense for many many years.
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@Jumi@lemmy.world 2026-04-24 20:28
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@rayyy@piefed.social 2026-04-24 12:00
The US could have switched to the world-wide standard years ago but under Reagan the switch was abandoned.
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@Smoogs@lemmy.world 2026-04-25 05:44
Soon it won’t matter anyways. Isn’t AmericaUS like..done now? We can move on with our normal shit and chuckle at it like a museum piece.
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@Meron35@lemmy.world 2026-04-24 16:24
Metric time ❤️ 
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@charonn0@startrek.website 2026-04-24 23:23
The one thing that bothers me about the metric system is how much of it is never actually used. No one says "1 megameter", for example. They say "1,000 kilometers". When you think about it, most metric prefixes are never used with most metric units.
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@damnedfurry@lemmy.world 2026-04-25 16:07
>212 warm / 100 warm >warm Meme was made by a space shuttle tile.
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@Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-24 23:55
Tbf as someone who grew up with the imperial system due to being raised by a British boomer its fairly easy if you're familiar with it, I still often cook in imperial due to a load of old cook books I have. Having said that anyone who wants the imperial system in the modern day is a absolute idiot, metric is objectively superior.
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@atro_city@fedia.io 2026-04-24 19:32
in this thread: USAians consooming epic amounts of copium.
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@oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-04-24 17:09
While I get this is a meme, I do think the imperial measurement system deserves some credit. More the vast majority of humanity’s existence it has been an incredibly capable and powerful system. It’s only in more modern times where a system like metric is an upgrade. This is also ignoring the few ways where imperial still eke out a win, but that is besides the point. Imperial’s weird gaps between units are pieces that come from a variety of different systems that got layered together over the centuries it lasted. 5280 feet in a mile? Based on the Roman mile which was 5000 paces from a soldier. 12 inches in a foot? From a different way people counted on their hands. Length of an inch and length of a foot? From different parts of the body. Weird? Certainly. Practical? Amazing so. They were easier for day to day tasks and for measuring on the small, human scale. Metric is easier to calculate between different units and that is an amazing innovation. Fahrenheit is weird today, but was more practical when it was first established. Even then it has value in how it is more granular without the necessity of decimals. Celsius is still the better unit, 0° being freezing and 100° being boiling for water is very useful. It gives you two easy to remember extremes. Imperial had to walk, so metric could run in a way. Both systems are great in their own ways and in their own times. Imperial isn’t needed anymore, but deserves recognition for being good for its time and for being more practical historically. The only dud metric really has is metric time, and that is because everything we have ever done has been based on the older time keeping system. Cultures have laid claim to certain dates and times of day within the old system that just have constrained us to it. I definitely prefer metric overall, but I genuinely believe that imperial deserves more credit for getting us to the point where metric makes sense to swap to.
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@PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 2026-04-24 21:27
If you think Imperial is a better system, you're the perfect example of the American education system at work. In case those were too many words... You stupid.
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@voldage@lemmy.world 2026-04-25 15:58
0 C being the temperature water freezes is useful for knowing if there is ice outside, which has practical use. If we keep going the way we are, soon 100 will be an indicator that there is no water outside. Practical if you're a hydrophobe or hydrophile.
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@Bullerfar@lemmy.world 2026-04-24 19:51
Never got this. I saw one fucking dumb american actually defend the rrtarded system by saying "It's actually more precise" - what a fucking stupid thing to say, when you don't even have a smaller unit than freaking Inches. Atleast we have mm. You guys use 1\4 Inch. Wtf is that??
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@LesserAbe@lemmy.world 2026-04-24 11:34
Hey I'm American and think we should switch to metric. While Celsius has a more objective basis than Fahrenheit, doesn't seem like the same slam dunk as the other measurements. Are there applications where we're measuring in centicelsius or kilocelsius? There aren't weird non-base ten increments of Fahrenheit. In Fahrenheit 0 is cold and 100 is hot as well... I'm still fine changing to it, just doesn't seem to have the same "in your face" value for this graphic.
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@Omnipitaph@reddthat.com 2026-04-24 14:51
Yes... Thank you British Empire, French Empire, and Spanish Empire for your contributions to the system. -British: Mile, Foot, Inch, Yard -Spanish: Dollar, from the Spanish Pieces of 8 -French: You know what you did
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@red_tomato@lemmy.world 2026-04-24 11:53
Celsius makes most sense in places that experience proper winter. Is it above 0? Then the snow is melting. Is it below 0? Then the melted snow has turned into slippery ice. Have fun!
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@not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 2026-04-24 11:09
Milk bottles in the supermarkets in the UK are now using weird sizes like 1.136l, because apparently that easier for some old cunt to read.
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@Knightfox@lemmy.world 2026-04-25 02:46
I'm so confused, you didn't have the room to write "calculator", but you had the room to write "(calc is short for calculator btw)" .....
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@Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 2026-04-25 09:37
Come up with a metric time system then. Also, fix the damn calendar.
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@Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world 2026-04-24 13:44
> 1 mile is 5 tomAtoes (5280) my kid Edit: formatting
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@FunnySalt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-25 04:33
I'm accustomed to the imperial system. But agree that metric is better. Some metric stuff I have no trouble with. I have a good spatial sense of the distance of a mm, m, and km. And can do a rough miles to km (and vice versa) conversion in my head. I have a good sense of how much a kg is and similarly can do a rough conversion to and from lbs in my head. But while I understand that a gram is 1/1000 of a kg, if handed a small object and asked to guess how many grams it is, I'd fail miserably. Celsius I can't ever remember the conversion, but I've had enough exposure to it that I understand if it means cold/cool/warm/hot weather.
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@MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 2026-04-26 01:48
There was something I read once upon a time that was like: F is how hot/cold people are C is how hot/cold water is K is how hot/cold matter is I feel like that's pretty accurate.
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@FatVegan@leminal.space 2026-04-24 10:15
The funnuest argument for farenheit that i keep seeing is: celsius is good for scientific things, but in everyday life, farenheit is better, because it tells you how it FEELS. 60F feels pleasant while 40 is too cold. The delusion is real, even tge dumbest american can learn new numbers, i believe in you the same way you velive a pedo is gonna save you
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@itisileclerk@lemmy.world 2026-04-25 06:11
How do you define inch without metric units? How much is that?
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@Tiger_Man_@szmer.info 2026-04-25 09:53
because celcius is about how aater feels, faranheit is about how you feel and kelvin is about how atoms feel
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@prodaccess@lemmy.world 2026-04-26 01:31
I got used to Celsius while living abroad in Europe and Japan and prefer it to Fahrenheit. The extra granularity of the latter scale doesn't really add much more utility. However, while 32 F and 212 F are pretty arbitrary, so is calibrating to the freezing and boiling temperatures of water. I'd rather have a scale that's calibrated to humans rather than H2O.
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@halferect@lemmy.world 2026-04-25 23:31
Fun fact Americans do both
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@blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-24 10:13
mg, g, kg What are the others meant to represent?
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@trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf 2026-04-26 04:14
Burgerperson here, metric should be standard
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@chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2026-04-24 11:23
What I'll defend, however, is fractional measurements when precision matters. With decimal measurements, precision can't be nearly as granular. If your measurement is precise to one 1/8 of a unit, how do you represent that in decimal? 0.625 implies your measurement is precise to the nearest thousandth, but rounding it to 1 also isn't precise. 5/8, however, tells you the measurement AND the precision. With fractional measurements, you can specify precision by changing the denominator to any number, whereas decimal is essentially fractional measurements, but with fixed denominator at powers of 10. For instance, a measurements of a half-unit with levels of precision between 0.1 and 0.10, fractional can be 6/12, 7/14, 8/16, 9/18, 10/20, 24/48, etc. Decimal can't specify that precision without essentially writing a sentance. What's simpler to record? "24/48" or "0.5 +- 0.208333...."
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@Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2026-04-25 23:10
0 is absolute cold, any other system is wrong.
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@Cethin@lemmy.zip 2026-04-24 23:33
F and C are both made up points, not absolute values. C is great, if what you care about is what water is doing. F is great, if you care about how something feels to a human (not saying you can't memorize new numbers, but 0 and 100 being dangerous is simple). If you want an actual "best" temperature scale, use Kelvin. 0 is no energy. It actually has a fundamental base. If you argue that temperatures that are useful to humans are too hard to memorize, then you're making the argument against C too (or F when dealing with water).
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@username_1@programming.dev 2026-04-24 10:04
USA new monetary system: 4 libertines -- 1 donny 12 donnies -- 1 trump 6 trumps -- 1 dollar 7 trumps -- 1 eagle dollar 2 eagle dollars -- 1 flooz
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@SystemDisc@piefed.world 2026-04-25 15:17
In my opinion, Fahrenheit is a much better system for weather. Anything below 0°F and above 100°F is actively dangerous for a person to exist in. Anything in between is just normal weather. For anything scientific, I think K makes more sense than C. To me, C is actually only rarely useful. Edit, because people seem to be offended by the suggestion that the system they don’t use is more practical in a very specific context: What you are used to is definitely best for you, but I’m talking about the general practicality and usefulness in specific contexts. C in the context of states of water makes sense, and is practical and useful. F in the context of weather makes sense, because 0 to 100 is just normal weather in places with four seasons. In the context of weather, it is both practical and useful. K is practical and useful in pretty much every scientific context. To say memorizing -17 to 38 vs memorizing 0 to 100 is the same is silly, because 0 and 100 are very meaningful to the human mind. Of course, what you are used to will be what your mind immediately goes to, it does not change the fact that 0°F to 100°F for weather is more understandable, 0°C to 100°C for freezing and boiling water is more understandable, and 0°K being truly no thermal energy with units the same size as C is better for scientific contexts.