I just want to say thank you to the Americans on here who have evidently made a concerted effort to start putting an F to specify when they are talking about Fahrenheit degrees.

@Tarnport@mastodon.green If you don't specify your units, any number is just a number.

@Tarnport

Let's move all to the Kelvin scale and forget about this antiscientist way of measuring temperature!

I just want to say thank you to the Americans on here who have evidently made a concerted effort to start putting an F to specify when they are talking about Fahrenheit degrees.

I can't imagine what prompted the recent shift, but it makes a difference, it's clearer and respectful to the rest of the world, and I for one have noticed the change.

I just want to say thank you to the Americans on here who have evidently made a concerted effort to start putting an F to specify when they are talking about Fahrenheit degrees.

I can't imagine what prompted the recent shift, but it makes a difference, it's clearer and respectful to the rest of the world, and I for one have noticed the change.

@Tarnport

Let's move all to the Kelvin scale and forget about this antiscientist way of measuring temperature!

@Tarnport I'd hope people talking about Celsius would do similarly. And indeed those of us choosing Kelvins.
But yes, the American habit was the most confusing.

Now, dates ...

I just want to say thank you to the Americans on here who have evidently made a concerted effort to start putting an F to specify when they are talking about Fahrenheit degrees.

I can't imagine what prompted the recent shift, but it makes a difference, it's clearer and respectful to the rest of the world, and I for one have noticed the change.

@Tarnport maybe we want out 🫥
i try to give both! My Celsius is estimate but working a lot in science labs mean I have a few setpoints so i just scale between, haha.

I do like F better for daily weather and such because 0 is fuckin cold and 100 is fuckin hot. 0 is fuckin cold in C too, but 100 would be dead. So i do prefer the resolution f gives for livable comfort temps so I kinda wish using both was the norm because in my mind both make sense for different things. (I mean Kelvin is cool too but talk about resolution issues for most things haha.)

@Myotis_cuniculus I have a cousin who is in computer science but still prefers imperial bc he says it's "human-scaled" and that Celsius is based on the behavior of water which really isn't that useful to humans. Fair point.

I just want to say thank you to the Americans on here who have evidently made a concerted effort to start putting an F to specify when they are talking about Fahrenheit degrees.

I can't imagine what prompted the recent shift, but it makes a difference, it's clearer and respectful to the rest of the world, and I for one have noticed the change.

@max @Tarnport

I measure temperature in electron-Volts. 🧐

@Tarnport

Let's move all to the Kelvin scale and forget about this antiscientist way of measuring temperature!

I just want to say thank you to the Americans on here who have evidently made a concerted effort to start putting an F to specify when they are talking about Fahrenheit degrees.

I can't imagine what prompted the recent shift, but it makes a difference, it's clearer and respectful to the rest of the world, and I for one have noticed the change.

I just want to say thank you to the Americans on here who have evidently made a concerted effort to start putting an F to specify when they are talking about Fahrenheit degrees.

I can't imagine what prompted the recent shift, but it makes a difference, it's clearer and respectful to the rest of the world, and I for one have noticed the change.

@Tarnport @Myotis_cuniculus big talk for someone who is 60% water

@Photo55 oh no I did not conflate dates with this discussion!!! Lord, dates... One day! One day we'll all 20260130.

@Tarnport @Photo55, https://xkcd.com/1179/ has that format listed as “discouraged”

I just want to say thank you to the Americans on here who have evidently made a concerted effort to start putting an F to specify when they are talking about Fahrenheit degrees.

I can't imagine what prompted the recent shift, but it makes a difference, it's clearer and respectful to the rest of the world, and I for one have noticed the change.

@Tarnport maybe we want out 🫥
i try to give both! My Celsius is estimate but working a lot in science labs mean I have a few setpoints so i just scale between, haha.

I do like F better for daily weather and such because 0 is fuckin cold and 100 is fuckin hot. 0 is fuckin cold in C too, but 100 would be dead. So i do prefer the resolution f gives for livable comfort temps so I kinda wish using both was the norm because in my mind both make sense for different things. (I mean Kelvin is cool too but talk about resolution issues for most things haha.)