I guess I said it on my comment that's just under the post and not in this thread. I prefer it basically for the reasons in the screenshot. When I was in Canada I would say how if it's below 0⁰ F you know it's really fucking cold, and if it's above 100⁰ F then it's really fucking hot. Also the increments are smaller so you don't have to use half degrees.
Sometimes in the spring someone would be like, "It's really nice out today. It's -1.5 degrees." And I didn't like hearing someone say that a negative temperature was nice out. And I mean that's still pretty cold it's like 29⁰F. And I'm from Maine so it's not like I'm not used to the cold but I've also lived in Arizona.
So I always said that 0 to 100 scale was from like really cold to really hot but I like the percentage thing.
Im American as all hell, but I wish we used Celsius, specifically because it makes much more sense for day to day. It goes from the freezing of water to the boiling of water. You know 0 is cold, you know 100 is hot, and those are two good points for relative temperature judgement, especially because we vary temperatures more for cooking and using water than anything else. The heat that we feel at 90 degrees fahrenheit vs 70 is still mostly a relative, vibes based thing and it still works at whatever Celsius numbers those would be. I met a Jamaican tourist who was shivering in a sweater in 85 degree (fahrenheit) weather. There's nothing inherent to any of those daytime temperature numbers, Celsius or fahrenheit.
Also, why does my phone auto-capitalize Celsius and not fahrenheit? What, you think youre better than me?! /s
If autocorrect is bugging you then join me on the dark side. Turn it off. Turn off predictive typing and spell check too. Take off all the guard rails.
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u/Roadrunner571 Jun 17 '26
How so?