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hackbunny
Jul 22, 2007

I haven't been on SA for years but the person who gave me my previous av as a joke felt guilty for doing so and decided to get me a non-shitty av

Vox Nihili posted:

Yeah it actually did happen, on Reddit no less.

It's impressive how well run /r/place was and how beautiful was the result



Very nerdy, but nothing horrible that I can see, except the failed attempt to spread a black spot, and a "Kekistan" flag almost completely erased by a rainbow flag. The reason there are so many flags/subreddit banners in the first place is that each user only got very few pixels a day, so large groups had to organize to make a recognizable drawing: the result is basically a world map of Reddit, each drawing's size reflecting the "brain share" of a community or interest. Look at how little territory nazis ("Kekistan" flag) and nihilistic trolls (black spot) held, and the sheer amount of people who worked together to make silly pixel art

Maybe the internet wasn't a complete mistake?

hackbunny has issued a correction as of 17:13 on Oct 9, 2017

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MonsieurChoc
Oct 12, 2013

Every species can smell its own extinction.

France uses Celsius like a normal country.

Guy Goodbody
Aug 31, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo

MonsieurChoc posted:

France uses Celsius like a normal country.

Farenheit is better for talking about weather

hackbunny
Jul 22, 2007

I haven't been on SA for years but the person who gave me my previous av as a joke felt guilty for doing so and decided to get me a non-shitty av

Guy Goodbody posted:

Farenheit is better for talking about weather

You don't use it because it's better

Divorced And Curious
Jan 23, 2009

democracy depends on sausage sizzles

Guy Goodbody posted:

Farenheit is better for talking about weather

Nebakenezzer
Sep 13, 2005

The Mote in God's Eye





MonsieurChoc
Oct 12, 2013

Every species can smell its own extinction.

Guy Goodbody posted:

Farenheit is better for talking about weather

It's not, though.

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo

Guy Goodbody
Aug 31, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo

MonsieurChoc posted:

It's not, though.

It absolutely is. It gives you a much higher granularity when talking about the temperatures people normally experience.

Volcott
Mar 30, 2010

People paying American dollars to let other people know they didn't agree with someone's position on something is the lifeblood of these forums.
, the cop that loves to gently caress.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Guy Goodbody posted:

It absolutely is. It gives you a much higher granularity when talking about the temperatures people normally experience.
you can use decimals (which you're going to be using anyway for things like body temperature where that level of precision actually matters)

Guy Goodbody
Aug 31, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo
I agree that meters are better than feet and, i dunno, drams or whatever are better than gallons. But Fahrenheit is better than Celsius. People say that Celsius is better because water boiling at 100 degrees is easier to remember than water boiling at whatever water boils at in Fahrenheit. As if that matters. As if you hear the weather report and think "oh dear, that's only 60 degrees away from boiling away the pond!

Doctor Spaceman posted:

you can use decimals (which you're going to be using anyway for things like body temperature where that level of precision actually matters)

Fahrenheit also can do decimals.

R. Mute
Jul 27, 2011

there's literally no difference between fahrenheit and celsius when talking about the weather, you dweebs. whatever you're used to is going to be best

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Guy Goodbody posted:

Fahrenheit also can do decimals.
yeah it's like there's no serious difference between the two for every day use :thunk:

Accretionist
Nov 7, 2012
I BELIEVE IN STUPID CONSPIRACY THEORIES
Metric is way cooler

Everything lines up

MizPiz
May 29, 2013

by Athanatos
Metric is for spergs

Modest Mao
Feb 11, 2011

by Cyrano4747
Kelvin at least measures something, pls stick to Kelvin

Grondoth
Feb 18, 2011

Did homes county burn after this was published

Guy Goodbody
Aug 31, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo

Doctor Spaceman posted:

yeah it's like there's no serious difference between the two for every day use :thunk:

Fahrenheit allows for much greater precision before the use of decimals. Face it, that makes Fahrenheit the superior system for weather, medicine, cooking, everything people actually regularly measure temperate for. If you're doing science stuff, you use Kelvin. All that Celsius has going for it is that 0 is water freezing and 100 is water boiling. How is that a positive? Who cares that much about the state of water?

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/916768043988082693

Volcott
Mar 30, 2010

People paying American dollars to let other people know they didn't agree with someone's position on something is the lifeblood of these forums.

Kurt's epic quest for hentai.swf

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 19 days!)


I can never say I like Rick and Morty again.

The Little Kielbasa
Mar 29, 2001

and another thing: im not mad. please dont put in the newspaper that i got mad.

hackbunny posted:


Maybe the internet wasn't a complete mistake?

Mods?

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 19 days!)

https://twitter.com/Anarchosubhuman/status/916547890889322497

Dreddout
Oct 1, 2015

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

hackbunny posted:

You don't use it because it's better

We use it because we're number 1 :patriot:

Agnostalgia
Dec 22, 2009

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

I can never say I like Rick and Morty again.

c'mon, you gonna give up tentacle porn too just because self ownenwald likes it? be your own man

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

logikv9
Mar 5, 2009


Ham Wrangler
i'm 1.3 million views

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012
stop stealing memes from twitter which were stolen from reddit, hamprince

also probate that revisionist poo poo

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 19 days!)

Darkman Fanpage posted:

stop stealing memes from twitter which were stolen from reddit, hamprince

also probate that revisionist poo poo

Communism is clearly the winner though.

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

Darkman Fanpage posted:

stop stealing memes from twitter which were stolen from reddit, hamprince

also probate that revisionist poo poo

property is theft comrade

MonsieurChoc
Oct 12, 2013

Every species can smell its own extinction.

Guy Goodbody posted:

Fahrenheit allows for much greater precision before the use of decimals. Face it, that makes Fahrenheit the superior system for weather, medicine, cooking, everything people actually regularly measure temperate for. If you're doing science stuff, you use Kelvin. All that Celsius has going for it is that 0 is water freezing and 100 is water boiling. How is that a positive? Who cares that much about the state of water?

It's an easy to remember point of reference, which Farhenheit doesn't have. Is 69 high or low temperature? I have no clue! With Celsius, 0 is when you see ice and snow start appearing because that's what the freeze point of water is. So everything else follows from that. 20's a good temperature, 30 is hot and 40 is I'm not living there ever hot. 10 starts getting a bit chilly, 0 is cold and -40 is what used to happen in January before global warming kicked in.

Vox Nihili
May 28, 2008


thanks for cataloging ur journey

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 19 days!)

MonsieurChoc posted:

It's an easy to remember point of reference, which Farhenheit doesn't have. Is 69 high or low temperature? I have no clue! With Celsius, 0 is when you see ice and snow start appearing because that's what the freeze point of water is. So everything else follows from that. 20's a good temperature, 30 is hot and 40 is I'm not living there ever hot. 10 starts getting a bit chilly, 0 is cold and -40 is what used to happen in January before global warming kicked in.

The freezing point of Fahrenheit is 32 degrees. It's not a difficult to remember point of reference because you live through the freaking weather. 69 is chilly, and you know it because you've lived it. The only reason it seems weird to you is because you don't use it day to day, but there's nothing about it that's inherently inferior as a lived system of measurement.

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

MonsieurChoc posted:

It's an easy to remember point of reference, which Farhenheit doesn't have. Is 69 high or low temperature? I have no clue! With Celsius, 0 is when you see ice and snow start appearing because that's what the freeze point of water is. So everything else follows from that. 20's a good temperature, 30 is hot and 40 is I'm not living there ever hot. 10 starts getting a bit chilly, 0 is cold and -40 is what used to happen in January before global warming kicked in.

what no

0-30 cold
40-50 chilly
60-70 comfortable
80-90 warm
100 hot
110 hot as gently caress

cmon son

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Guy Goodbody posted:

I agree that meters are better than feet and, i dunno, drams or whatever are better than gallons. But Fahrenheit is better than Celsius. People say that Celsius is better because water boiling at 100 degrees is easier to remember than water boiling at whatever water boils at in Fahrenheit. As if that matters. As if you hear the weather report and think "oh dear, that's only 60 degrees away from boiling away the pond!


Fahrenheit also can do decimals.

0 is when you get ice outside you idiot. you loving moron

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde

MonsieurChoc posted:

20's a good temperature, 30 is hot and 40 is I'm not living there ever hot.

lmao listen to yourself

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

kelvin is the only rational temperature scale

End boss Of SGaG*
Aug 9, 2000
I REPORT EVERY POST I READ!
Foreigners made their temperatures wrong as a joke, nobody actually knows what a thermometer means over there without looking at the European Union handbook - a genius man

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A Handed Missus
Aug 6, 2012


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