• @[email protected]
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    11013 days ago

    I don’t think anyone knows what a C° is

    Most every kid who has taken high school science should know what °C is, though

  • MamboGator
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    6813 days ago

    If those Americans could read Celsius they’d be very upset.

      • @[email protected]
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        1412 days ago

        I live in the American South, and I’m happy to wear shorts outside at 10C (50 F), so long as it’s not windy…

        Now, a jacket at 30C (86F)… that’s a bit warm for me…

        F = C*(9/5)+32

        If you don’t want the ratio, 9/5=1.8

        To estimate the temperature conversion, multiply by 2 and add 32… then estimate a touch less… I eyeballed 10C to be 50ish before breaking out the calculator and finding it was 50 on the nose

  • I Cast Fist
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    4512 days ago

    Cº is the final boss of the C family of programming languages, once you’ve sharpened your senses to an objective double plus level of holy, minus any rust, you can finally get the degree.

      • @[email protected]
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        512 days ago

        +20 to +25 is the perfect temperature Below is cold, above is hot

        At 0, snow and ice form, so +10 is in the middle between your regular room temperature and freezing (i.e. jacket weather)

        +30 is the kind of weather when you better be naked or wearing lightest of clothes or you’re gonna get baked over time. Not deadly by any means, but highly uncomfortable.

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          I take it in tens.

          -20° to -10° is full parka weather. Your breath freezes on your clothes and moisture in the air dries up.

          -10° to 0° is winter coat and scarf weather. Damp cold. Snow and ice but you don’t feel like your eyeballs are freezing.

          0° to 10° Jacket weather. Early spring temps. Pretty mild in either direction.

          10° - 20° Hoodie and t-shirt to taste. Basically the comfortable human range for most.

          20°- 30° T-shirt time. Anything above 25 is solidly in swimming weather territory.

          30°- 40° Time to seek some shade. Heatstroke and heat exhaustion are variable in this range the low end is a health risk for seniors the high end is a risk for even the hardcore heat lovers in their prime.

          • @guiguinofake
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            10° to 20° is definitely t shirt and shorts territory tho

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              Depends, I am increasingly a shorts year round Canadian so yes? But I feel like it’s also acceptable hoodie and pants weather. Hence “to taste”.

      • @[email protected]
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        412 days ago

        Water freezes at zero, so 10C is cold but only kinda cold.

        Humn body temperature is 37C so 30C is got but only kinda hot.

  • @[email protected]
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    3013 days ago

    I mean, Americans know 0C is the freezing temperature of water and 100C is the boiling temperature of water, so even with that most basic information taught in like, First Grade Science, people can understand the meme.

    People wearing shorts in the cold vs people wearing jackets in the heat.

    • @[email protected]
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      1713 days ago

      You overestimate the public education system in my state; especially when I was in grade school.

      (I thought it was 100°F boiling and 0°F was freezing)

      • @[email protected]
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        612 days ago

        I learned it in First Grade and nearly everyone I have talked to did as well, and I am in California which is rated as the #40 best state for public education, which puts me technically near the bottom. So unless someone happens to come from a state that is lower than California (10 states in descending order where last is worst: TN, FL, NC, OK, SC, AL, NM, NV, LA, or AZ), then chances are very tiny that they were not taught that basic fact in grade school, which was then repeatedly used in every science class afterwards.

        American Public Education Rankings by State

  • @[email protected]
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    1812 days ago

    I live in Morocco and I’ve seen people wearing thick winter jackets in 45c, and then they’ll complain about it being too hot.

  • HEXN3T
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    1612 days ago

    I’m gonna be so real, 10° is not that cold.

  • @[email protected]
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    1212 days ago

    When I lived in Minnesota the shorts came out when we warmed up to even 1C. Yeah I’m American but I’ve lived a couple of years in Europe and I can math so I know what a C is. I still prefer F. But my wife likes D.

    • @[email protected]
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      112 days ago

      Been wearing mine into the minus numbers in the UK. Doesn’t really get dangerously cold here, except for freak weather events.

  • @[email protected]
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    712 days ago

    I mean, we know what ice and fire mean. And believe it or not, we know where both Canada and Australia are.

    • @[email protected]
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      013 days ago

      They are when the temperature is still relatively sane but uncomfortable. But once you get into severe temperature zones, it don’t mean shit. Like yeah 90F in Chicago is gonna feel about as hot as 110F in Phoenix because of the humidity. Anything over that is just reeeeeeeel fuckin hot regardless. I just spent a week in the Grand Canyon last summer and you use all kinds of innovative ways to stay cool in the 120F heat. But for some reason in the early evening when it would hit 130F it just felt like an oven no matter what you did. 10/10 trip tho would absolutely do it again!

  • @[email protected]
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    612 days ago

    I feel justified wearing shorts at any temperature above freezing. Its 4°C now and I’m sweating in jeans and a t-shirt.

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      112 days ago

      My limit is basically -18C (0F). But I don’t spend any time outside in that state. Parking lot to work entrance. I’ve gone an entire year no long pants.

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        212 days ago

        I mostly wear trousers so the other parents don’t think I’m a freak. Also where I live rarely gets that cold, despite being in the literal arctic (coastal climate). Don’t have to go far inland for it to get cold af though.

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          112 days ago

          I’m sure the neighbors are worried when I’m in shorts and flippy floppies cleaning snow off of the cars, but meh.

  • Buglefingers
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    512 days ago

    Pfffffft of course I know what C is. It’s the third letter of the English alphabet! CC is for needles and CCC is probably boobs or something. And Cs is what allows people go get degrees. (/J)