#1645: Toasts

[[A person looks at their phone. Someone speaks to them from out of panel.]]

Other: Hey, what’s the temperature outside?

Person: (thinks) Should I give it in ºF or ºC?

[[Above their head, a bulleted list appears.]]

DEGREES CELSIUS

international standard

helps reduce America’s weird isolationism

nice how “negative” means below freezing

physics major loyalty

easier to spell

we lost a Mars probe over this crap

[[Another list appears above their head.]]

DEGREES FAHRENHEIT

0ºF to 100ºF good match for temperature range in which most humans live

rounds more usefully (70’s, 90’s)

unit-aware computing makes Imperial less annoying

SI prefixes less relevant for temperatures

Fahrenheit likely more clear in this context

valuing unit standardization over being helpful possibly makes me a bad friend

[[He’s still thinking.]]

Person: (thinks)Crap, gotta pick something. Uhh… (says) …0.173 radians.

Other: I’ll just go check myself.