• @[email protected]
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    I don’t think anyone knows what a C° is

    Most every kid who has taken high school science should know what °C is, though

  • MamboGator
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    762 months ago

    If those Americans could read Celsius they’d be very upset.

      • @[email protected]
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        142 months ago

        I live in the American South, and I’m happy to wear shorts outside at 10C (50 F), so long as it’s not windy…

        Now, a jacket at 30C (86F)… that’s a bit warm for me…

        F = C*(9/5)+32

        If you don’t want the ratio, 9/5=1.8

        To estimate the temperature conversion, multiply by 2 and add 32… then estimate a touch less… I eyeballed 10C to be 50ish before breaking out the calculator and finding it was 50 on the nose

  • I Cast Fist
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    442 months ago

    Cº is the final boss of the C family of programming languages, once you’ve sharpened your senses to an objective double plus level of holy, minus any rust, you can finally get the degree.

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        52 months ago

        +20 to +25 is the perfect temperature Below is cold, above is hot

        At 0, snow and ice form, so +10 is in the middle between your regular room temperature and freezing (i.e. jacket weather)

        +30 is the kind of weather when you better be naked or wearing lightest of clothes or you’re gonna get baked over time. Not deadly by any means, but highly uncomfortable.

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          I take it in tens.

          -20° to -10° is full parka weather. Your breath freezes on your clothes and moisture in the air dries up.

          -10° to 0° is winter coat and scarf weather. Damp cold. Snow and ice but you don’t feel like your eyeballs are freezing.

          0° to 10° Jacket weather. Early spring temps. Pretty mild in either direction.

          10° - 20° Hoodie and t-shirt to taste. Basically the comfortable human range for most.

          20°- 30° T-shirt time. Anything above 25 is solidly in swimming weather territory.

          30°- 40° Time to seek some shade. Heatstroke and heat exhaustion are variable in this range the low end is a health risk for seniors the high end is a risk for even the hardcore heat lovers in their prime.

          • @[email protected]
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            12 months ago

            Humidity is also a thing to account for. I’ll take 40° at 10% RH over 28° at 90% any day.

            • @[email protected]
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              22 months ago

              Depends, I am increasingly a shorts year round Canadian so yes? But I feel like it’s also acceptable hoodie and pants weather. Hence “to taste”.

      • @[email protected]
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        42 months ago

        Water freezes at zero, so 10C is cold but only kinda cold.

        Humn body temperature is 37C so 30C is got but only kinda hot.

  • @[email protected]
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    312 months ago

    I mean, Americans know 0C is the freezing temperature of water and 100C is the boiling temperature of water, so even with that most basic information taught in like, First Grade Science, people can understand the meme.

    People wearing shorts in the cold vs people wearing jackets in the heat.

    • @[email protected]
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      232 months ago

      You overestimate the public education system in my state; especially when I was in grade school.

      (I thought it was 100°F boiling and 0°F was freezing)

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        72 months ago

        I learned it in First Grade and nearly everyone I have talked to did as well, and I am in California which is rated as the #40 best state for public education, which puts me technically near the bottom. So unless someone happens to come from a state that is lower than California (10 states in descending order where last is worst: TN, FL, NC, OK, SC, AL, NM, NV, LA, or AZ), then chances are very tiny that they were not taught that basic fact in grade school, which was then repeatedly used in every science class afterwards.

        American Public Education Rankings by State

    • @[email protected]
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      22 months ago

      They got Canada right, then I thought c degrees is a joke because australia inverted or something, but then American is also c degrees, so I’m thinking OP of the meme also needs some more clarity.

  • HEXN3T
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    182 months ago

    I’m gonna be so real, 10° is not that cold.

  • @[email protected]
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    142 months ago

    When I lived in Minnesota the shorts came out when we warmed up to even 1C. Yeah I’m American but I’ve lived a couple of years in Europe and I can math so I know what a C is. I still prefer F. But my wife likes D.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 months ago

      They are when the temperature is still relatively sane but uncomfortable. But once you get into severe temperature zones, it don’t mean shit. Like yeah 90F in Chicago is gonna feel about as hot as 110F in Phoenix because of the humidity. Anything over that is just reeeeeeeel fuckin hot regardless. I just spent a week in the Grand Canyon last summer and you use all kinds of innovative ways to stay cool in the 120F heat. But for some reason in the early evening when it would hit 130F it just felt like an oven no matter what you did. 10/10 trip tho would absolutely do it again!

  • @[email protected]
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    92 months ago

    x*1.8+32 = how you convert to °Freedom. We know how, we just don’t acknowledge your °Communist temperature measurement.

  • @[email protected]
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    92 months ago

    Fahrenheit makes more sense for gauging human comfort. Most people can sense the difference in 1°F. Celsius crams half the degrees between boiling and freezing into one scale.

    A difference of 10°F is notable, 10°C is quite notable. 60’s is cool, 80’s is hot. Now do a 20° difference in C. 16 to 26 doesn’t sound like a big difference.

    Celsius works better for almost every other useful measurement. Go Kelvin if you must.

    • @[email protected]
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      242 months ago

      It only makes sense to you because you’re accustomed to it, not because it’s innately better at “gauging human comfort”. All of us who grew up using metric know how to gauge comfort with Celsius. None of us bother with decimal fractions of a degree because there isn’t a big enough difference between degrees to do so, so your argument about granularity falls apart pretty quick there. You lot don’t have trouble with miles despite kilometres being more granular do you?

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        62 months ago

        Montreal Hotels had .5°C indications. I’ll stick to °F for human comfort. km/h is the same problem in a way, I need three digits to represent reasonable highway speeds.

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          112 months ago

          If the number 100 takes you appreciably longer to process than 60, you probably aren’t qualified to be driving anyway.

          • @[email protected]
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            72 months ago

            It’s like talking to an American who keeps asserting they don’t have an accent. If they don’t get it immediately, they’re probably not going to.

    • @[email protected]
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      This is literally just you being used to one system but not the other. 16 to 26 sounds like a massive difference to me because it is. And decimals exist.

    • tiredofsametab
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      Hard disagree. Grew up in the US and moved to metric land. If we really need to, we can use .x (i.e. 10ths of a degree). However, not even my heat/aircon has half degrees. People seem to have no issue with it in 98.6 degrees (body temperature i.e. 37c) having decimals.

  • @[email protected]
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    82 months ago

    I mean, we know what ice and fire mean. And believe it or not, we know where both Canada and Australia are.

  • @[email protected]
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    62 months ago

    I feel justified wearing shorts at any temperature above freezing. Its 4°C now and I’m sweating in jeans and a t-shirt.

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      12 months ago

      My limit is basically -18C (0F). But I don’t spend any time outside in that state. Parking lot to work entrance. I’ve gone an entire year no long pants.

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        22 months ago

        I mostly wear trousers so the other parents don’t think I’m a freak. Also where I live rarely gets that cold, despite being in the literal arctic (coastal climate). Don’t have to go far inland for it to get cold af though.

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          I’m sure the neighbors are worried when I’m in shorts and flippy floppies cleaning snow off of the cars, but meh.