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[โ€“] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Fahrenheit is better at describing weather in reference to human interaction with temperature Celsius is better for everything else.

But that's the same for everything imperial. It's always better when it comes to actual human elements. How big is that stick? How many things in that piece of bread? How much weight is that rock? I need to move.

While metric is basically better anytime you have tooling you need to be extremely exact. You need to know something that is less human and more mathematical or abstract.

Well each system can do the thing. They're not great at it quickly falls apart. That's a big reason why people tend to say imperial sucks. Most people no longer actually interact with the natural world anymore. Everything is computers, exact measurements, quantifiable numbers from shops. The only thing left that most people deal with on a day-to-day basis is the weather and why Fahrenheit may be better than Celsius. It's only vaguely better since weather is already such an imprecise thing that really doesn't matter.

Well yes the granularity of Fahrenheit is far more useful. If you actually want to be like specific about things Celsius when it comes to weather it's close enough f****** does the job

[โ€“] forestbeasts@pawb.social 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I mean, you can always use different units in different contexts. We use F for the weather but C for the kettle, personally! (C for the oven would probably also be better, but all the recipes are in F.)

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