• Fal@yiffit.net
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    1 year ago

    The temperature measurement is true though. F describes the temperature scale that humans interact with much better than C does.

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      Kind of, but not really. 0F doesn’t mean anything special in relation to human interaction, it relates to the freezing point of some random salt and water mixture (not seawater). 32 is a random number for the freezing point of freshwater which humans do care about, and 212 is nonsense for boiling temp of water which humans also care about and routinely use. The only part pertinent is that 100 is close to, but higher than human body temperature, but not quite where it counts as a fever… just the temperature of a sub-feverish human… how is that helpful! Sorry I really don’t care for the Fahrenheit system and I’m prepared to die on this hill

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        0 F is really cold to a human (but still livable), and 100 F is really hot to a human (but still livable). I honestly don’t really care what temperature water boils at in my every day life. I know that if I put fire under a pot of water, it will boil eventually. Why would I need to know the exact temperature?

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            Explain how it’s useful in cooking. Considering it doesn’t actually boil at 100 degrees unless there’s very specific environmental conditions

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          Hard disagree. 0°F is colder than the pont it stopped being cool, but not yet really cold. 100°F is many degrees into dying of melting, but also a few degrees short of a fever worth noting.

          I don’t think I’ve ever seen either 0°F or 100°F used in any way to refer to actually temperature. It’s always defining the scale or comparing to °C. Maybe once when checking for a fever.

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        32 is a random number for the freezing point of freshwater which humans do care about, and 212 is nonsense for boiling temp of water which humans also care about and routinely use.

        Humans care about the fact that water boils or freezes. Not the temperature at which it happens

        Sorry I really don’t care for the Fahrenheit system and I’m prepared to die on this hill

        I’m prepared to die on the Farenheit system is better for describing environmental temperature hill

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      The fever temperature, maybe. But the rest makes more sense in C. It’s so much easier when 0C is freezing and 100C is boiling. It works with cooking. Counting in increments of 5 or 10 also works for weather.

      <0C = below freezing

      0-10C = cold

      10-20C = cool (sweater or hoodie)

      20-30C = t-shirt weather

      30C and above = hot

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        It’s so much easier when 0C is freezing and 100C is boiling. It works with cooking.

        Explain how this is useful in cooking

        20-30C = t-shirt weather

        68 to 86 is a GIGANTIC difference. 68 is cold for many many people, certainly not “t-shirt weather”. and 86 is hot, much more than “t-shirt weather”.