• TWeaK@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

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

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      I’d take offense if I could; but you’re right… I think… idk, I can’t think. I’m not upset, you’re upset!

      What’s an up set?

  • Cyberwitch_7493@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    I just use

    30°C is hot, 20°C is nice 10°C is cold, 0°C is ice.

    Obviously that won’t apply everywhere, but in milder climates it works pretty good.

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    Double Celsius and add 30. It’ll get you close enough for environment temps.

    10*2 is 20, plus 30 = 50.

    (10°C × 9/5) + 32 = 50°F

    30 doubled is 60, plus 30 is 90.

    (30°C × 9/5) + 32 = 86°F

    10°C is mild af. Who tf doesn’t wear shorts when it’s 50F?

    If you want to sound more metal, tell people how cold it is in celsius. Was it kinda cold or was it in the negatives?

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    Here’s a rough C° primer for Americans

    0° or below, fucking cold

    1° - 10° cold

    11° - 20° cool

    21° - 30° warm

    31° - 40° hot

    41° or above - Jesus Christ I’m on fire!

    As for Fahrenheit for the rest of the world, on a scale from 0 to 100, how hot is it? Assume anything below zero is really fucking cold, and anything above 100 is really fucking hot.

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    1 year ago

    Paraphrasing an old meme:

    Fahrenheit - how hot humans feel
    Celsius - how hot water feels
    Kelvin - how hot atoms feel

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      Because each time we look for some English content, they use some dumb fantasy metrics based on the size fo the feet of a king for some reason, and we need to look up a converter to change it to a metric used in 195 different countries.

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        I measure in freedom units brother!

        Also how did feet/metric get brought up, that’s not even remotely relevant, tf lol.

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            Because it’s a massive waste of money for little to no benefit, and barely actually comes up because unit conversion is trivial and is done constantly regardless of overall unit system.

            Armchair unit system fanatics make it out to be such a bigger deal than it is. Whether im working in metric or standard I’m doing several to several dozen dimensional analyses anyway, normally with industry specific units. Which again, exist in both standard and si.

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      I love that the meme is about Canada, Australia, and the US(ish), yet it’s the Europeans that get called out by this guy. Who’s living rent free in whose head? ;)

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    As a Canadian who spent a few years of my youth in Australia: I can definitely confirm.

    I spent most of my ozzy summers in a black hoodie for some god forsaken reason, and I also wear shorts in winter occasionally…

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    Unpopular opinion time; the US already uses metric/Celsius where it matters; in science, engineering and the military. Where it doesn’t matter, we use a weird hybrid system that makes intuitive sense to us and is accordingly perfectly functional and doesn’t need to be changed.

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    I certainly know what degrees Celsius are, but I have no idea what Celsius degrees are supposed to be.