• Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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    If you’d say it is 100F outside, I wouldn’t know what you mean because I have no concept of Fahrenheit. Is 100F actually hot? What is that in Celsius? Do you mean hot as in “better to wear light clothes” or “Do not set a foot outside or you will melt”?

    What does it mean “as hot as a normal person can really tolerate”? What about a abnormal person?

    It gives nothing of information. Just a rough indication of what it might be. Which isn’t useful at all.

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      Do you understand the base-10 numerical system? Do you understand percentages? Congratulations, you understand fahrenheit. You can no longer honestly say, on the internet or otherwise, that fahrenheit is meaningless to you. You are now a fahrenheit understander, whether you like it or not.

      Also, your second statement answers your first question. When I say “as hot as a normal person can tolerate” i do not mean “wear light clothes”, I mean “as hot as a normal person can tolerate”. Thats why i said “as hot as a normal person can tolerate”. Happy to clear that up you for you.

      Abnormalities/outliers are not something on which we should base standards of measurements.

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        You keep saying this but it still doesn’t make any sense. 50% heat would be average middle of the pack nice? And “as hot as normal person can tolerate” is full of shit because neither you or I have no concept of what “normal person can tolerate”, as the normal depends on your geography. And this is quite a good reason why claiming “Fahrenheit is how human feels” is just idiotic as it relies both on a specific climate and having learned that scale growing up.

        I swear you Americans can get so fucking stupid on this topic, it’s like claiming that Finnish is the most intuitive language because it’s the language of how love (average love, excluding outliers obviously) feels

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          Lmao and there it is.

          “You americans”

          It was never about temperature. You just love any excuse to shit on people that are different.

          God forbid a country teach the value of both systems. Your tiny mind evidently cannot comprehend the very idea of 2+ methods of measurement.

          And yes, no matter how much you screech to the contrary, there is a maximum safe temperature a human can exist in, and it’s roughly 100F. Yes that varies based on an individuals tolerances, which is why I’ve specified on many occasions that it’s representative of the average climate in a temperate region. If you were capable of reading, you’d know that.