I've been thinking about your comment lately, you're correct that Arizona is physically larger, but Portugal has a larger population, so they should still be on equal footing.

Regarding Fahrenheit... I'm sorry, I can't see it. Living in Canada, all I care about are two things: when is my tea ready, and when is it going to freeze outside. I can give up having a round number for a fever (37.7°C, which we know by heart as also being the threshold for "hot" in air or liquid temperature) and for a... mixture of ice, ammonium chloride and salt at 0°F? Today I learned.

Bref, I still don't see the purpose of Fahrenheit for my life since it's really important for us Canadians to know the freezing point of water so we can bring in things that are frost sensitive, and it's an excellent point of reference to be able to tell how far on and on which side of the freezing scale a specific temperature may be. Maybe if you lived in Arizona, Fahrenheit may be more useful?

[–] nylo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago

hahaha! i thought I didn't actually press send on that comment, idk I have a habit of dying on hills that are entirely unimportant. I just left the US for the first time in my life with a one way ticket... I'm out of there and so ready to be proved wrong on anything tbh

i really do think F is better for air temp but I'm sure i could adapt to C, and will not deny C is better for science. makes much more sense to attach it to states of water same w liters/kg etc