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@skinnylatte I’m going to wade right into this, probably because I feel like being abused today for some reason.

Speaking only about temperature, Fahrenheit, while weird, is a more human scale in my view. As humans, having five more of a thing is generally considered a little more, not a lot more. Translating that to temperature, 5 more F is a little change, while 5 more C is a large change and will be felt as such by our bodies, either internally or externally.

One could argue that anchoring 100C to when water boils, at sea level-ish atmospheric pressure, is as arbitrary as making 0F the point at which some specific solution of water and salt freezes. At least we can all agree that -40 is really cold.

This isn’t me arguing that F is better than C. I’m just sharing my reasons for preferring F over C when speaking of temperatures experienced by me as a human.

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