and re: Fahrenheit I fully accept that my friends and I might just be dumb and be bad at looking up information or processing teachers explaining Fahrenheit. So I'm not blaming the US for using it. Scales don't just have *no* reason so I assume whatever it is would be designed to be more useful than the water one but is more difficult to explain.
so I went and looked this up because it made me curious, and it turns out that the Fahrenheit dude based his 0 degrees on the coldest point he measured in his hometown in Germany that year, which is a hilariously arbitrary way of doing things. He then recreated it with a freezing-point solution of water and ammonium chloride, to make it all “scientific” and shit.
I deleted that post because it seemed to be rubbing people the wrong way (not my intention at all) but I just wanted to share that, and also clarify that I do think that Celsius is the objectively better scale, as well as ordering things days > months > years does probably make more sense.
buuuut I am American and it is hard to wrap my stubborn brain around things that are foreign to me (pun intended)











