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-17 is not 0% heat

it is chilly

its negative heat

its not "do not go out" cold

but -5 to -20 is the range where I wear a winter coat

instead of just a hoodie

to be fair pika, americans tend to not be able to handle temperatures below 0 celsius because they aren't adapted to it

also true

unless they're alaskans

here in canada, we get -40 to 40

regularly

so we get the full gambit

most days fall in -30 to 30, with a few days of of the year in the extremes of both

normalize using kelvin tbh

Kelvin is Celsius's nerdy little brother.

the nice thing is, Kelvin makes just as much sense as Celsius because it is the same scale just shifted

shifted the start from the freezing point of water to the absolute coldest point

lets use Rankine

491.67 °R is the freezing point of water

now thats based

we should create a new scale that is not based on anything scientific or precise and is based on feeling instead

where 1 is impossibly cold

and 10 is melting

The empathy scale

feels like 6 empathy out here today

i got a nice 6.9 empathy going on over here

shit

the empathy scale is just fahrenheit but divided by 10

Fire damn you

Im going to base my system on the boiling and freezing point of a random liquid.

empathy scale is you hard set 0 to 0 celcius, -15 to 0 kelvin, 501 to 100 ferenhiet, 1005 to 10 billion rankine

good luck

water is not a random liquid

which is why celcius is based

yeah based on water not people

people are mostly water

people are random which is why fahrenheit doesn't work

Pika’s too fat to be judging tolerable temperatures with any accuracy

Idk, if he keeps walking daily, that could change

Cold weather might start to matter

How much padding he has in his chair

How much support he no longer needs from a bra

I usually wear a hoodie and an unzipped winter coat until about -30 anyways

then I just zip up my coat

I like the argument about 0 to 100, but I also appreciate that a single degree Fahrenheit is perceptible

Celsius just seems less granular

I don't think it actually is, I think you just believe it is. Can you really tell the difference between a 76 day and a 77 day

My room is 70 degrees, and I will feel it when it hits 68

So that's 1-1.5 degrees

Outside, it's all about sunlight, humidity, etc.

I mean, within like 2-3 degrees celcius I can tell its coler/hotter than usual, just I can't tell you its "1 degree hotter"

2-3 degrees c is 10 real degrees

How can you barely tell

>real degrees

you meant 2-3 real degrees is 10 funnynumber degrees

anyways, because there fundementally is not that much of a difference within sub 5 degree scales

except at the extremes

difference between a 10C and a 13C day is not really all that relevant

Sure, but that's due to environmental factors

I'd care if my fridge jumped 10 degrees all of a sudden

sure but this whole talk was based on human perception of temperature

in the first place

that chart listed 0F as really cold, 100 as really hot

Yeah, and I like that part of our scale

I just outright disagree with 0F being useful at all

But the reason why I'm happy it's not mapped from -20 to 120 on the 0 to 100 scale

Is because I think the size of the step is about as small as I'd want

honestly, we should just report temperature in half degrees

Yeah

Let's go from 0 to 1

With a bunch of decimal places

oh lol I just meant

instead of saying it is 35C out say it is 35.5C out

to satisfy the "but Fahrenheit is more granular" argument

But then you've added 10 steps in between

I think the solution

Would be no decimals