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Hot take: F is the superior temperature measurement for real people. If you are a scientist in a lab, sure, maybe referencing the state changes in water is useful for you somehow.
But for a normal person, 90% of the use of tempertature measurements is knowing what clothes to wear, and the other 10% is for setting oven temperatures. Oven temperatures are far hotter than waters boiling point, so F and C are equialvalently useful.
For knowing how to dress, however, F clearly has the advantage, as the numbers map to obvious temperature ranges. Ie,
100F = really fuckin hot
0F = really fuckin cold
110 = really fucking hot
-10 = really fucking cold.
Yeah, really useful scale.
It is useful because you are used to it, it has no inherent better qualities over any other scale.
Eh -10 with no wind is shorts weather.
Temp is by it self an ass way to tell what to wear. You need wind humidity and temp to even remotely get an accurate idea.
Are you from mars? That's fucking cold π
0C = water freezes, 100C = water boils
If this isn't more useful, tell me.
I'm not a water elemental for one. And two I ain't cooking or doing chemistry.
So it's a fucking worthless and useless data point.
F and C are both stupid relative scales that are equally shit for the exact same reasons. And neither are any better then the other. They both fucking suck. Just use the one every else around you uses so you are understood and arnt that asshole in the room being obtuse because you think your better then everyone else.
Unless yer giving the wind chill and humidity too, air temp is fucking pointless anyways.
Just say it's hot, cold, nice out. It's good e fucking nuff
You are roughly 70% water
And our body temp is roughly 98.6 F/37 C. Logically that should be the ideal ambient temperature for us, right?
Does the water outside not freeze at 0Β°C? Because that seems to be pretty useful info as in thereβs ice outside or not