• subtext@lemmy.world
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    2 months 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

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    2 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.

  • 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com
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    2 months 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.

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      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.

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        2 months 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?”

  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world
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    2 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.

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      2 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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      2 months ago

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

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        2 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

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    Coming from the Northern US the difference between 10C and 30C is a Jacket and a T-shirt. This is just May.

    February is -30C to 10C depending on cloud cover, wind, and precipitation.

    10C does not rep Aokiji; and 30C for Suzaku is kinda insulting for everyone south of the 30th parallel.

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      10C does not rep Aokiji; and 30C for Suzaku is kinda insulting for everyone south of the 30th parallel.

      The temperatures are literally the only things that make sense in this statement 😂

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        2 months ago

        10C is 50F that’s barely jacket weather if it’s raining.

        30C is ~85F which is a comfortable day to walk around.

        Aokiji is an instant freeze -100C or -150 F. -60F is death.

        Suzaku is Magma or 150C or 302F. At 120F Arizona holes up like it’s winter.

        The comparisons are insulting in both directions.

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          How tf do you expect the meme of Canadians wearing shorts and Australians wearing jackets to work at those temperatures?

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          What your body considers cold depends on what it is used to. My body is used to Texas weather and I consider 10 c (50 f) to be hoodie and pant weather.

          You might consider that to mean my body is used to a very hot temperature. But I’ve been on trips to places closer to the equator where, at 18 c (65 f), I would be wearing shorts and the locals are wearing their thickest sweaters (which are pretty light by my standards).

          There are Siberians out there who might consider what you consider to be cold to not be that cold.

          Cold and hot are relative.

      • Allero@lemmy.today
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        +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.

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    2 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.

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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.

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      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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        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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            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.

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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.

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      2 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!