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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 42 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Celsius can be used in place of all three, the others cannot.

The freezing point of water is also a great place to zero the scale.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

i love this idea that water is completely irrelevant to humans, as if it's not like 60% of our mass and vital to living

yeah no let's base the temperature scale around what some english dude felt was comfortable

[–] faintbeep@lemm.ee -2 points 8 months ago

Yeah, like who needs to tell quickly whether road conditions will be icy? It's much more useful to know how much warmer it is than the arbitrary temperature Americans say is the lowest you can survive

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