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Comic strip of a ghost and a person with the American flag pasted on the head. The ghost repeats “Boo!” in the first three panels without getting any reaction, but when it in the fourth panel says “kg, cm, km, °C” the American gets scared and screams “AHHHH!!!”.
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Tax-funded health care. Making sure crazy people can’t buy machine guns. Voting for reasonable candidates.
You forgot that only a good guy with a gun-safe filled with AR-15s can stop a bad guy with a glock
Aaaand … DD/MM/YYYY 🫠
This one wouldn’t make sense as they say dates as month day, year.
To me, dates should always be written in international format: YYYY-MM-DDDepends on context, IMO did/mm/yyyy is the most natural when writing some text, but partial ISO yyyy-mm-dd is ideal for when naming files and directories, makes lexicographical ordering follow chronological order.
YYYY-MM-DD
this guy iso8601‘s
rfc3339’s
This makes me want to punch myself in the fucking head every time I see it
why
Why is the first thing I need to know the year? I would hope I know what year I’m in without even having to check against a reference point. It’s the least important thing first, why?
YYYY-MM-DD is easier to get sorted since most significant number is on the left.
Least important it may be. But it is the most significant. This scheme follows the conventional scheme we follow while writing numbers - the most significant digit to the left and significance reducing as we move right.
The advantage of YYYY-MM-DD becomes when you add time to it in ISO-8601 or RFC 3339 format: YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss. All the digits are uniformly decreasing in significance from left to right.
This becomes even more apparent if you are trying to sort by time - say, a stack of files, or datetime in a computer. Try doing this with any other scheme.
This, FTW
What’s even worse is that when they use SI units they don’t even spell them right. They write meters whereas the rest of the world writes metres
spelling is hard why make it harder by spelling it “metres”
To help distinguish metre, as in length, from a meter, as in volt-meter.
Fuck, you scared me!
@burgers if metric sucks so bad why do you use it for your guns
oooh, shots fired
We mostly don’t, neither do you.
Caliber is decimalized inches
Gauge is 1.67 over the cube root of the diameter in inches. Technically it’s derived from lbs since the number refers to the number of lead balls the width of the barrel you’d need to equal 1 lb. Eg, a 12 gauge is the width of a 1/12th lb ball of lead.
who is calling a 9mm a 00 gauge
This feels like projection to me.
You know how to push peoples buttons
Well, there is basically only one country that has been too afraid to change from its archaic measurement system to the internationally agreed upon standard.
3 actually, and it’s not a good group… And I’d like to say that most Americans actually support the idea of switching, but as a stubborn guy who uses metric for everything here I can sadly say that they are not by a long shot.
me to imperial measurements: i am going to kill you
Except in drug deals (kg), foot races (5km), and science (°C).
And school supplies (9mm)
Yeah, everyone shits on the US for this but we do science in metric, and also everyone seems to ignore that the UK is all kinds of fucked up as well-- weight in stone, etc. I’d also argue that outside science F is a better scale for talking about weather. Sure 0 makes for a better freezing point, but most temps on inhabited earth are about 0~100 F or -25~40 C. If you knew nothing about F or C and someone asked if a scale from 0 to 100 or -25 to 40 made more sense, which one do you think most people would pick?
-25 to 40 is very useful for weather. Especially in a northern country. The only reason they don’t switch is “best country in the world” delusions they’ve been fed to believe is true since birth.
My point was any numbers are useful for weather if you’re used to them, but if you proposed a new scale without any baggage attached to it 0 to 100 makes way more sense than starting at neg something and going to 40 instead of a rounder number like 50 or 100
Below 0 means dangerous. That’s something that F doesn’t do clearly.
Below 0 C? Freezing doesn’t mean dangerous (obviously it’s dangerous if you’re homeless or don’t have regular access to heat). I live somewhere now that it hovers around freezing all winter and I literally can’t wear my old thick coats from where I grew up (northern US). I have to wear a fall coat pretty much all winter or I overheat. Below 0 F is a much better indication of dangerous weather than the freezing point.
How about just slipperyness? The fact that you can’t farm and thus have no reliable food source? The fact your water souce disappears?
I’ll admit, no method of measurement is perfect as biomes changes too drastically. This doesn’t mean Fahrenheit is better though. It’s not more intuitive, it’s not better at actual measurements, and it’s not as accepted by society ('cause people way smarter than me did find Fahrenheit worse than Celcius (see any above high school science/engineering))
To explain the more intuitive, I am literally incapable of using Fahrenheit, and it means fuck all to me. Thus my intuition is incapable of using it, and thus Fahrenheit isn’t naturally understandable. Granted, Celcius isn’t either.
The actual reason the us hasn’t switched is the many billions of dollars it would cost for basically no tangible benefit. There are probably better uses of that money if we actually got to spend it on what we wanted, like social programs.
Oh! Oh! Try “Paid maternity leave!”
: “No children! Only fresh laborers!”Free education!
Free health care!
What really grinds my gears - literally - is having to have two sets of sockets because America. It’s really gets annoying when you lose your 10mm socket and the other one isn’t quite right, but you can’t work out is 18/32s is close enough and then you bust a nut.
I just hate the fact if 10mm is too big, I can get 9mm, but if 15/16 is too big, fuck me, I guess. Bringing the full toolbox over because what random fucking bullshit number comes before it?
Like I’m here to fix shit, not do math to figure out which socket is one size smaller.
I just read that as “socks”, which made the last sentence really weird
Europeans acting smug like knowing how close to boiling the temperature is is more important than knowing how close to 100% hot out the temperature is.
Kinda ironic seeing somebody from hexbear defend imperial units.
100% hot
The what now
The hottest a specific person believed in. Obviously never visited $countryThatGetsHotter
100% hot out
what does that even mean?
100°F is roughly (like really roughly) the hottest temp your likely to see in most temperate climates throughout a year. 0°F is(again really roughly) the lowest. The result is you can use Fahrenheit basically as a percentage, or a 0 to 100 temperature score to help you decide how to dress/prepare for the day. If the temperature is above or below 100 or 0 then you need to consider fairly serious precautions before going outside for any length of time.
It’s not a very precise system at all, and it obviously has no place in a laboratory or similar situation. But it does work quite well for communicating the weather to common people. There is very little desire among Americans to change to Celsius not because they don’t understand it (we’re all taught Celsius in grade school) but because Fahrenheit serves most people’s needs perfectly adequately.
OP is also arguing that easily recalling the boiling temperature of water (one of the big purported advantages of Celsius) is useless for most people as nobody actually measures the temperature of water while boiling it. Except, maybe, in a classroom, probably while demonstrating to children how the Celsius scale works.
Knowing when water freezes is really useful though for places that ice/snow.
If it’s 0 F, it’s 0% hot out. If it’s 50 F, it’s 50% hot out, if it’s 100F, it’s 100% hot out.
It’s a more human measurement. Who the hell knows how long a kilometer or meter is? Everyone knows what a football field looks like and a yard is 1/100th of it.
I get what you’re saying, but only people who live in a country where (American) football is played would know how big a football field is.
The heck is 50% hot out? How is that even helpful lmao
28°c is a nice weather but 82.4°f(or 82.4% hot) sounds unlivable.
82.4°f is pretty decent weather. Unlivable is more like 100°f+, hence the “100% hot” scale. Nice weather would be 75°f, which makes sense when you think of it in terms of the “0-100% hot” scale.
I agree that other things like distance, volume, etc are better in metric. I really wish the US would just standardize metric UOM in general. But I do think fahrenheit is better for temperature.
Lol 82.4°F is hot af. Depending on the humidity it could be quite uncomfortable.
Truly unlivable would be anything over 100.
50 is fairly mild. Cool, but not really cold at all. Long sleeves, pants, maybe a light jacket weather.
No it’s not, as i live in the equator, and that’s the issue i have with fahrenheit. The whole thing is devoid of context and people think it makes sense naturally.
Truly unlivable would be anything over 100.
Sauna
Are you trying to say people can live in a sauna? The whole point is they’re so hot you can’t (safely) stay in them too long.
I’m obviously not saying that people spontaneously combust above that temp.
You can for a while
I mean… I could say the same thing about Celsius and it would make the exact same amount of sense.
Except you can’t. 0°C is pretty cold. If it’s 100°C out then you’re already dead.
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100°C is an acceptable sauna temperature. You won’t last much longer naked in 0°C!
Edit: To make my point more clear, I know some crazy people who go directly from a close to 100 degree sauna to a close to 0 degree ice bath. I think that could be described quite well as going from 100 to 0 % within the human temperature tolerance.
Also, that’s not my initial point. My initial point was that “percent hot outside” means nothing in Fahrenheit or Celsius.
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It has never been literally boiling outside (except for when you’re in the middle of a forest fire or next to a lava flow).
Besides, Fahrenheit is more scientific because it translates 1:1 to Rankine, where 0 is absolute zero.
Percent of what, exactly? It has been a lot more than 100 Fahrenheit and a lot less than 0.
Edit: Kelvin is the scientific standard with 0 at absolute zero, and that translates directly to Celsius.
Percent of how close it is to 100% hot out.
But in seriousness, 100 was supposed to be based on the human body temperature. When it’s above 100, it’s harder to cool yourself off.
Are you just trolling? “100% hot out” literally doesn’t mean anything.
Edit: Ah, I see :P
But the human body temp isn’t 100 °F, though
Rankine?
Science says Kelvin.
Who the hell knows how long a kilometer or meter is?
Everyone outside of America.
Everyone knows what a football field looks like
You’re either trolling or a living embodiment of the ‘Americans think the USA is the whole world’ meme. Nobody outside of the USA knows how long a football field is.
It’s 100% “me” hot out?
The only properly measured thing Americans bring to their schools is 9mm’s 😔
