Celsius is easy to understand, even for children: water freezes at 0°C, boils at 100°C.
It is understood by more people in the world.
If the US used Celsius, understanding scientific papers and data would be easier for common people.
In Celsius, the range of livable temperatures for humans (-20 to 40°C) still gives plenty of precision. Additionally, each step in the Celsius scale corresponds to a bigger change in “feel” of the temperature, which leads to a more intuitive understanding of temperature changes.
Fake thermostats which exist solely to give the occupants of office buildings an illusion of control are an entire product category. If I were to replace your thermostat with one without your knowledge, you would be just as happy turning it up and down all day.
What the heck are you talking about? This is my home thermostat, so you are just rambling at this point. Fake thermostats exist because people as a whole cannot agree on a temperature.
I work from home too so its not some small time window. Sometimes I turn it too much do and have to make a small adjustment. At night I turn it to 69 because 72 is too hot.
Please just accept that people can and do feel a difference of a few degrees and regularly change their thermostat accordingly.
From now on, if anyone needs an example of why Lemmy/kbin are better than Reddit, we can link to this thread :) It was nice to have a respectful debate with someone without it devolving into an exchange of simplistic quips.
I’m also biased.
But:
Your first 3 points, I can agree with. We will have to agree to disagree on the last one.
Can you feel the difference between 73F and 75F? No, you can’t, don’t lie.
As someone who uses their thermostat and regularly switches between 72 and 75, yes. Yes I can.
Fake thermostats which exist solely to give the occupants of office buildings an illusion of control are an entire product category. If I were to replace your thermostat with one without your knowledge, you would be just as happy turning it up and down all day.
What the heck are you talking about? This is my home thermostat, so you are just rambling at this point. Fake thermostats exist because people as a whole cannot agree on a temperature.
I work from home too so its not some small time window. Sometimes I turn it too much do and have to make a small adjustment. At night I turn it to 69 because 72 is too hot.
Please just accept that people can and do feel a difference of a few degrees and regularly change their thermostat accordingly.
From now on, if anyone needs an example of why Lemmy/kbin are better than Reddit, we can link to this thread :) It was nice to have a respectful debate with someone without it devolving into an exchange of simplistic quips.