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Phlegmish posted:So do I bring my coat or not Better safe than sorry!
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Raspberry Jam It In Me posted:You would probably already be on Mars, if you used a sensible system of measurement, instead of that Mickey Mouse bullshit. I like how this map seems to recognize the SADR.
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Never leave your house to avoid the stress of changing ambient temperatures.
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The Belgian posted:Better safe than sorry! Better take the risk of being cold than having to schlep around a useless coat!
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As a lurker on this thread I'd like to say thank you, this was interesting/useful to me. Also, as a lurker, this temperature conversation is really long.
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fishmech posted:Biblical Maps These are cool as hell and also I want everyone to recognize that fischmech had a better post than all of you did over the last three pages so please stop posting.
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dublish posted:What engineering school did you go to? Everything in my experience is you give an answer with the same units given in the problem. Same. Though I only ever saw imperial units in the ME classes I took.
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holy loving lol at this idea of fahrenheit, the arbitrariest system, being "objectively" good. i've seen a lot of people who grew up using fahrenheit learn celsius and recognise that basing a one to one hundred system on states of water makes total sense. i've also seen a lot of people who grew up on celsius learn fahrenheit, as i did when i lived in the states, and nobody stuck with it beyond need to communicate with other americans cos it's dumb as gently caress like... i understand wanting a "day to day" temperature system to cover a 'reasonable' range of numbers so you can recognise it easier. but looking at the average minimum and maximum of where I live, 20 to 110 actually looks LESS easy to understand and "reasonable" than -5 to 40. o the horror you might need to say the temperature is in the "low teens" and "high teens" instead of "fifties" or "sixties" when determining whether or not to wear a jacket. fuckin right this is a hill i'll die on, i was alright with having to learn imperial measurements for distance, volume and even weight but temperature can gently caress off and so can the faux-intellectual "oh but objectively it makes more sense day to day" defenses of itt
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Divorced And Curious posted:holy loving lol at this idea of fahrenheit, the arbitrariest system, being "objectively" good. more numbers equal i can be very precise with my air conditioner setting
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Check out a cool map! It should be linked at the right time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpVI7_xqZOw&t=1774s I love that the great lakes are just a continuation of the ocean. Also, the two Greenlands 20 seconds or so later the camera pans over and you can see that Anatolia appears to be connected directly to Egypt, solving the Israeli Palestine issue completely edit on second glance I guess that could be hudson bay instead of the great lakes but whatever, it's goofy looking. At least South America has a killer butt Michael Bayleaf fucked around with this message at 05:36 on Apr 26, 2017 |
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Apr 26, 2017 05:28
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cis autodrag posted:more numbers equal i can be very precise with my air conditioner setting
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Raspberry Jam It In Me posted:You would probably already be on Mars, if you used a sensible system of measurement, instead of that Mickey Mouse bullshit. ...:malaysia:
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Fahrenheit is fine, temperature is mostly arbitrary anyway and there is no conversion (Kilo Celcius or W/E). Have fun being the only one using your weird scale. The rest of the imperial measures, feet, inches and miles can go suck it. What the hell is a liquid ounce? Why have a unit called basically the same and share an abbreviation while being sometimes a volume, sometimes a weight? Idiocy.
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Because it was based on the volume occupied by an ounce of water (or in some cases wine).
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White Rock posted:Fahrenheit is fine, temperature is mostly arbitrary anyway and there is no conversion (Kilo Celcius or W/E). Have fun being the only one using your weird scale.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:What? The biggest problem with imperial is the weird conversions between different units of measures, which metric doesn't suffer from (1000 centimeters = 10 meters, 1000 Gram = 1 Kilogram). With imperial, you get all kinds of issues with how many inches in a mile and all that. And then that is compounded when you get to areas and volumes. Temperature is a single unit which in all general cases stands on it's own. So you can use any arbitrary scale you want.
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White Rock posted:Temperature is a single unit which in all general cases stands on it's own. So you can use any arbitrary scale you want. That asides, the highlighted is literally what Europeans are getting at. Water freezing and water boiling is directly relevant to any adult, unlike the whatever the hell is the icy marinade defining 0 degrees Fahrenheit. It also helps to have a meaningful degree step, rather than entertain yourself with false illusion of precision (not that decimal numbers exist) mistaken for accuracy. It's even funnier since basic thermometers at your car or your home are rated for 1C accuracy, and your NWS does measure everything in C either, just converting it backwards so no one is upset.
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White Rock posted:Fahrenheit is fine, temperature is mostly arbitrary anyway and there is no conversion (Kilo Celcius or W/E). Have fun being the only one using your weird scale. Metric temperature is fully integrated in the SI system and comes up a lot if you do science or engineering (for example, thermal conductivity is power per length*kelvin). It's not some separate thing that you can just leave out. 
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That's a dumb map. Serbia adopted the metric system in 1879.
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And when you have a scientific equation, you can convert from K to C with a single simple step relying on a single constant, unlike with F.
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my dad posted:That's a dumb map. Serbia adopted the metric system in 1879. According to their database, Serbia adopted the metric system in "N/A", which is the timeframe as 1950-2010 in idiot units. 
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so derails are a thing of course but even by goon standards I'm kind of agog at the bizarre priorities at display here
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my dad posted:That's a dumb map. Serbia adopted the metric system in 1879. Its seems to be working off of the basis that when a state was created, became independent, split off from a larger confederation, is when they date its adoption of metric. Except Russia for some reason.
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khwarezm posted:Its seems to be working off of the basis that when a state was created, became independent, split off from a larger confederation, is when they date its adoption of metric. *looks at former Austria-Hungary* Uh...
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PC Brigadier posted:presented without comment I'm Poland.
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Those kinky Ukrainians.
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PC Brigadier posted:presented without comment Shame about the Carolingian Empire.
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South Italy is, erm... ooh, break time  "it's different".
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Why does the map arbitrarily use Italian for Sicily and Southern Italy? They also could have just quoted Machiavelli's Discourses about most of Southern Europe being the "corruption of the world."
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I like that they lump all of the Balkans in with Albania and Bulgaria
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I'm always amused by any map that puts Rome and Greece outside of "European civilization".
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Byzantine posted:I'm always amused by any map that puts Rome and Greece outside of "European civilization".
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Byzantine posted:I'm always amused by any map that puts Rome and Greece outside of "European civilization". eh, rome gets in only by the skin of its teeth. greece is polluted by dirty muslim rule and asiatic orthodox religion
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I'm Core Bornholm and Gotland and Periphery Rügen. Or alternatively Periphery Burgenland and Core Rest-of-Austrian-Republic. Or talking about Norway specifically: Bergen, founded in 1070, largest town in Scandinavia until the 1600s: periphery. Kristiansand, founded in 1641: core.
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Kopijeger posted:I'm Core Bornholm and Gotland and Periphery Rügen. Or alternatively Periphery Burgenland and Core Rest-of-Austrian-Republic. Or talking about Norway specifically: Bergen, founded in 1070, largest town in Scandinavia until the 1600s: periphery. Kristiansand, founded in 1641: core. At least the depiction eastern Austria probably follows Metternich's verdict that "the Balkans begin at the Rennweg", which used to be a road beginning immediately after the city walls and leading eastwards into Burgenland (which was a part of Hungary until 1921, not to forget).
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PC Brigadier posted:presented without comment BRITAIN: "Food sucks, people barely human." RASPBERRY J. IT IN ME, 2017 take it off the map plz 
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Raspberry Jam It In Me posted:BRITAIN: how does that make it less of a "present core of Europe where defining traits are strongest"?
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