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the numbers may be, but if you asked me to tell you what they feel like i would have to convert them to celsius first. where i live temperatures are generally between -30 and +30, and i could tell you in an instant what I would wear for a given temperature in that range. 50F though? no clue. since it’s right between 0 and 100 i guess it would be just right, temperature wise, so t-shirt and long pants?

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yeah no shit, but think of it this way, if you were put into a place that was 100f, you would go “damn this bitch hot out here” and if you were put into a place that was 0f you would go “damn this joint cold as fuck fr”

Stop thinking in celsius.

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What if it was 99f? Or 1f? Would your scientific “damn this bitch hot out here” change to something else?

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no? Because it’s not entirely hinged around the temperature being one specific number???

Do you think the human body is a perfectly accurate thermometer?

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why would i stop? there’s only one place in the world that uses another scale, and it’s dangerous for me to even travel there.

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because we’re not talking about celsius? We’re talking about fahrenheit?

This is like pulling up to a car meet in a semi truck, and being really confused when nobody thinks your ride is sick.

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Can you remember that at temperatures near 0F and 100F, you need to take special precautions when going outside? The rest is a matter of getting used to what the numbers mean, but those are very intuitive danger points.

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-18 is such an arbitrary place for “special precautions”. at 0, I know to start driving more carefully since the roads ice up. at -15, i know to wear long johns. at +15, i know to start using a thinner jacket. at -30, i know to use a thick hat and wax on my cheeks to prevent the blood vessels from rupturing. at +30, I know to use a large hat and sun cream on my cheeks to prevent them from burning.

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18 is such an arbitrary place for “special precautions”

cool little trick, you see how -18 is like, pretty close to -20, yeah. You can just round them. It really doesn’t matter

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