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Fahrenheit is better.
0 is real cold, 100 is real hot. How much sense does that make? Lots.
What the fuck is Celsius? Maybe if you are doing chemistry it is better. 0 is kind of cold but not really, 40 is real hot, 80 is unsued in practice, 100 is when water boils. Great, that'll come in real handy the next time I need to find out whether it is boiling-water temperature or not outside. How much sense does that make? 0. Which is the right number to use for roughly the bottom of the scale.
For everything else, the US's medieval "how many hogsheads in a farthing" units are far inferior, I will 100% agree. Fahrenheit is better though. If you disagree then why not just use Kelvin, that's even more chemically accurate and even less related to human relevant temperatures which is the goal I guess.
Celsius is the temperature scale of water.
One milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree Celsius; which is one percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point.
Except 100 C isn’t the boiling point, it’s 99.97 C, and that is only accurate if you define in an arbitrary pressure of 1 bar, which is defined as “Do not use” and was eventually stuffed into a measurement as dumb as the mile: 101325 Pa.
That’s true. Fahrenheit is just as flawed. It was originally created so 0° was the freezing temperature of brine (an inconsistent solution) and 100° as the average internal human body temperature (actually 98.6°).