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Metric distances and weights work because of fractions. It doesn't matter if the temperature is 58.7F or 14.83C. There's no math to make easier.
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funmanguy posted:Something awful is just
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Let’s have a temperature system where 0 is the point at which water freezes and 10 is human body temperature and you add descriptive adjectives before the number It was like a solid breezy 7 here today, I think
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May 7, 2018 00:32
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This image is one of those things where a legitimate point is undermined by disingenuous bullshit because no one and I mean no one talks about yards in a mile. Ever.
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May 7, 2018 00:34
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The Bloop posted:This image is one of those things where a legitimate point is undermined by disingenuous bullshit because no one and I mean no one talks about yards in a mile. Ever. Ah right, you merely convert straight from feet into miles, a simple ratio of 5280 to 1. So much easier.
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May 7, 2018 00:38
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Drone_Fragger posted:Ah right, you merely convert straight from feet into miles, a simple ratio of 5280 to 1. So much easier. Nah, we just divide miles until we get to 500 feet and use them from there. No one talks in "yards" unless a football field or shooting range are involved. It's a beautifully simple system.
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May 7, 2018 00:40
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the planck temperature is the most logical, and therefore best, temperature scale
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May 7, 2018 00:43
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See, once again this chart for some reason decides that the freezing point of water is a better or more logical place to start a temperature scale. Guess what, it's not. Fahrenheit covers the temperatures experiecned by humans at 1 to 100. Celsisu does it at like -15 to 40. Fahrenheit is the more logical system. Period
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May 7, 2018 00:44
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The Bloop posted:This image is one of those things where a legitimate point is undermined by disingenuous bullshit because no one and I mean no one talks about yards in a mile. Ever. American cartographers love using the 63360:1 scale because it meant you could measure an inch on the map and it would be a mile in the world. Inches to miles. The most recent map I saw this on was from 2012. Inches to miles.
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May 7, 2018 00:44
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Imperial units are objectively dumb but, in the UK, you buy petrol in litres but measure fuel economy in miles per gallon...
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May 7, 2018 00:45
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Lol this stuff sure is funny!
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Captain Splendid posted:Imperial units are objectively dumb but, in the UK, you buy petrol in litres but measure fuel economy in miles per gallon... Imperial units for distance or weight, sure. Makes converting from one unit to another super easy. But people dont go around converting temperature.
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May 7, 2018 00:46
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I'd also like to point out that the American dating system is better. How would you say the date aloud? That's right, you'd say May sixth, 2018. 5/6/2018. month/day/year. Only weirdos would say "The sixth of May, 2018".
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May 7, 2018 00:47
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Booger Presley posted:Lol this stuff sure is funny! 
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Guy Goodbody posted:See, once again this chart for some reason decides that the freezing point of water is a better or more logical place to start a temperature scale. Guess what, it's not. Fahrenheit covers the temperatures experiecned by humans at 1 to 100. Celsisu does it at like -15 to 40. Fahrenheit is the more logical system. Period Except... when you pick an arbitrary point in your system for calibration purposes, you pick something that is readily available and repeatable by anyone in the world, without any expensive equipment or chemicals. Such as the freezing point of the worlds most common liquid compared with said liquids boiling point. Rather than say, picking an arbitrary point based on the freezing point of a mixture of various salts, some of which may not be available, compared to the boiling point of a separate, unrelated liquid.
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Drone_Fragger posted:Except... when you pick an arbitrary point in your system for calibration purposes, you pick something that is readily available and repeatable by anyone in the world, without any expensive equipment or chemicals. Such as the freezing point of the worlds most common liquid compared with said liquids boiling point. Rather than say, picking an arbitrary point based on the freezing point of a mixture of various salts, some of which may not be available, compared to the boiling point of a separate, unrelated liquid. Sure do, For C the freezing point of water is 0. For F it's -32. Both systems are arbitrary.
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edit: nevermind
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CainFortea posted:Sure do, For C the freezing point of water is 0. For F it's -32. no it's not
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May 7, 2018 01:03
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Guy Goodbody posted:I'd also like to point out that the American dating system is better. How would you say the date aloud? 18 Floréal de l'An 226
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Memento posted:no it's not His point still stands. I gotta respect Drone_fragger for bringing out "if society ended and the rag-clad survivors living in the ruins of our once-great cities need to be able to independently start measuring temperatures using a scale that would sync up with everybody elses once international communication was restored, it would be easier to do it in Celsius" as a genuine argument that Celsius is better. But he forgot that Fahrenheit can also measure the freezing and boiling point of water. Albeit with slightly harder to remember numbers.
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May 7, 2018 01:09
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Android Apocalypse posted:Blindfire is not allowed.
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May 7, 2018 01:09
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Guy Goodbody posted:I'd also like to point out that the American dating system is better. How would you say the date aloud? That's right, you'd say May sixth, 2018. 5/6/2018. month/day/year. Only weirdos would say "The sixth of May, 2018". You realize every language that's not English does it the other way around, right? I will concede this point: it's not America that is dumb and illogical with dates, it's the English language.
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May 7, 2018 01:11
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Deltasquid posted:You realize every language that's not English does it the other way around, right? SpaceGoatFarts posted:*checks list*
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May 7, 2018 01:16
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Deltasquid posted:I will concede this point: it's not America that is dumb and illogical with dates, it's the English language. I don't think you'll get any argument from anyone here. Anyway, pictures that are arguably funny. https://i.imgur.com/DQpyTfk.mp4
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May 7, 2018 01:17
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I submit that it's not empirically easier to calculate your way through "logical smooth sailing" conversions by thinking up the proper number of power-of-10 places to move the decimal point over, versus making a series of extremely different conversions between extremely different units. Metric makes it really drat easy to make an order-of-magnitude error because the digits look "right" but the number of tens you calculated was wrong because you made a fucky wucky with your millis and your kilos and your cubic decis somewhere along the line.
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May 7, 2018 01:20
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Guy Goodbody posted:His point still stands. I gotta respect Drone_fragger for bringing out "if society ended and the rag-clad survivors living in the ruins of our once-great cities need to be able to independently start measuring temperatures using a scale that would sync up with everybody elses once international communication was restored, it would be easier to do it in Celsius" as a genuine argument that Celsius is better. But he forgot that Fahrenheit can also measure the freezing and boiling point of water. Albeit with slightly harder to remember numbers. That’s what’s so good about my system
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May 7, 2018 01:21
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Also dividing lengths into twelves is mathematically beautiful, and so is dividing liquid by powers of 2 Instead of 10 which is based on nothing in nature except the fact that we happen to have five fingers on our hands 
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https://i.imgur.com/Ia9nBYq.mp4
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May 7, 2018 01:27
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gently caress, you guys are the worst.
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May 7, 2018 02:13
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...2 Lanes Wide/ 65 Tons of American Pride/ Canyonero 
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May 7, 2018 02:30
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why would you say may the seventh lmao oh the date? well its twenty eighteen, may, the seventh 
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May 7, 2018 02:42
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gbut posted:gently caress, you guys are the worst. They failed the whole thing by not making the emblem read "Jeeeep" though.
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May 7, 2018 02:43
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even tom cruise says it the right way around and hes american, a nutter, and crazy as gently caress
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Guy Goodbody posted:I'd also like to point out that the American dating system is better. How would you say the date aloud? That's right, you'd say May sixth, 2018. 5/6/2018. month/day/year. Only weirdos would say "The sixth of May, 2018". That’s not even how you say it, you loving nerd. It’s “Sunday, the sixth day of May in the year of our Lord two thousand and 18” and anyone who doesn’t write that as “6 May 2018” can go drown in a river.
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Americans are really good at everything because they're always telling you that they are so you know it's true.
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