• MamboGator
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    681 year ago

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

      • @zigmus64@lemmy.world
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        141 year 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

    • XIN
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      -81 year ago

      Um, actually they are both far hotter than the sun’s surface. The whole meme should have melted.

      • Lolman228
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        -111 year ago

        No, 30 degrees is freezing temperature. 10 Degrees is below freezing. It should be very cold and chilly and these people should take the proper precautions, such as wearing coats and snow pants.

    • @BlueLineBae@midwest.social
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      01 year 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!

  • @subtext@lemmy.world
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    1101 year ago

    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

  • @RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world
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    301 year 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.

    • dohpaz42
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      171 year 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)

      • Aradina [They/Them]
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        41 year ago

        That’d make sense! But instead, Fahrenheit is based around the body temperature of a pig.

        • dohpaz42
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          31 year ago

          I’m curious where you heard that? Obviously a statement like that made me want to know more, but I’m not finding any information about it.

    • @Hootz@lemmy.ca
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      -21 year ago

      Bro… Brooooooo… I’m jealous of your faith in the american education system.

      • @RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world
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        61 year 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

  • @21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com
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    1 year ago

    And for that matter both of those things happen in this same country. Should’ve seen the looks I’d get from southerners when I was operating a ski lift in a T-shirt.

    Edit: celebrating the first snow by jumping in a lake has also gotten colorful reactions from outsiders.

    • @AEsheron@lemmy.world
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      21 year ago

      It’s not long pants season until it hits 0C for some folks in New England. Ain’t nobody wearing a jacket up to 30C though. The humidity kills up here, that would just be murder. It can get up to 40C, but we’re generally all miserable then.

      And yeah, I had to convert the temps online to make sure I knew what I was talking about. Well, minus 0C, I know that one.

      • @21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com
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        21 year ago

        I’m in a ski town in Colorado so you get the full mix here, but yeah by March it’s t-shirt weather for the locals, tourists still show up dressed for an arctic expedition but whatever. Hell, isn’t even the funniest thing that comes up, the resort does a costume week every spring so I did formal day in a dress shirt and tie on a fixie, which is a pretty physically intensive job. Favorite remark was a regular in the back of the line yelling “[name expunged] are you fucking bumping chairs in a tie?”

  • @shalafi@lemmy.world
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    -91 year 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.

    • @Inconcinnity@lemmy.world
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      191 year 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?

      • 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.

          • @Inconcinnity@lemmy.world
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            51 year 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.

    • tiredofsametab
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      01 year ago

      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.

    • @LwL@lemmy.world
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      21 year ago

      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.

  • @twinnie@feddit.uk
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    181 year ago

    I live in Morocco and I’ve seen people wearing thick winter jackets in 45c, and then they’ll complain about it being too hot.

  • @abaddon@lemmy.world
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    51 year ago

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

  • @doingthestuff@lemmy.world
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    121 year 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.

    • @Blackmist@feddit.uk
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      11 year ago

      Been wearing mine into the minus numbers in the UK. Doesn’t really get dangerously cold here, except for freak weather events.