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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

A useful way to think about it (and I think what the OOP is saying) is to think about it as a scale from 0-100. Where 0 is like the coldest humans can deal with and 100 is the hottest humans can deal with. Obviously this isn't strictly true (it gets to like 115 in death valley) but as an imperfect generalization it's pretty useful.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Then 50 is the optimal temperature right?

With 80 being as uncomfortable as 20

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

oof great point, i didn't think you could convince me to hate farenheit, i was ride or die for the imperial temperature measurement unit until right now

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nice sarcasm but I wasn’t telling you to hate it, just that your statement wasn’t logical

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

oh no that was sincere sorry. i really mean that you actually made a great point

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, no, that's not helpful at all - what I consider cold and what my mum considers cold are very different temperatures, and what I consider hot and my neighbour considers hot has an even bigger difference.
You rationalise it with the "human scale" idea, but really you just know the range of temperatures you're personally comfortable in, just like everyone using Celsius does.