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Jel Shaker posted:billionaire pays thousands of people to look at a cheap rothko to up its value just before he steals it One of those bargain basement Rothkos
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Fame Douglas posted:I'm voting this post a 0 Kelvin 
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Can't wait until the marketing big brains get their hands on this, like a sexy beer lady cutout that giggles when you look at her tits
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Measuring is either done by tools where the unit is irrelevant because the measurement is whatever the tool said it is. Or measuring is done by approximation and then the unit is best expressed by something everyone understands. Metric units, created from constants in nature are inscrutable values derived from theory and guesstimations. Imperial units are from parts of the human body or things you have lying around your home. In this way they are vastly superior, and in the precision case they are equally useful because again the tool does the measurement for you. The only time metric units are better is when converting between units. Where their arbitrary nature means we can define the unit of volume as exactly 1 to 1 with the unit of length, and also again 1to 1 with density. But once you leave the classroom and teacher is no longer looking over your shoulder to see if you memorized the equation or are cheating on your phone it becomes irrelevant that you need to look up the weird constant to convert between them. In conclusion; I have a foot, it's close enough. I have no clue how long the prime meridian is or then when I divide that by 10000
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my body has two feet and zero meters checkmate libs
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I don’t want to loving work anymore god damnit
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tokin opposition posted:Can't wait until the marketing big brains get their hands on this, like a sexy beer lady cutout that giggles when you look at her tits I purposely tried not to stare at the st Pauli girls boobs and she called me a cuck
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:my body has two feet and zero meters Welcome to the Something Awful forums, Mr. Shapiro
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i am harry posted:I don’t want to loving work anymore god damnit my job just announced mandatory overtime for the rest of summer lol 
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idiots don't kno wthe history of science According to a letter Fahrenheit wrote to his friend Herman Boerhaave,[16] his scale was built on the work of Ole Rømer, whom he had met earlier. In Rømer's scale, brine freezes at zero, water freezes and melts at 7.5 degrees, body temperature is 22.5, and water boils at 60 degrees. Fahrenheit multiplied each value by four in order to eliminate fractions and make the scale more fine-grained. He then re-calibrated his scale using the melting point of ice and normal human body temperature (which were at 30 and 90 degrees); he adjusted the scale so that the melting point of ice would be 32 degrees and body temperature 96 degrees, so that 64 intervals would separate the two, allowing him to mark degree lines on his instruments by simply bisecting the interval six times (since 64 is 2 to the sixth power).[17][18]
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Celsius is for measuring with a machine, but fahrenheit is for measuring with a hand. Make me into a perfect immortal machine and I will switch over, get on it meterheads
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I hate it when I have to undress in public to take measurements with my Fahrenheit ganglia
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ArmZ posted:According to a letter Fahrenheit wrote to his friend Herman Boerhaave,[16] his scale was built on the work of Ole Rømer, whom he had met earlier. i lost consciousness halfway through reading this sleeper of a sentence and woke up having already scrolled past the rest of the words in that post.
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Rømer had a street in Copenhagen named after him, and on that street, the worker's museum is located. Actually a pretty cool place.
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isn't this the same MIT group that recently put out a thinkpiece about how rural Africans' camp stoves are bad for the environment and that they should switch to greener cooking methods? lmao
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those sound like the sort of academics who call the police on pic walking their dogs in a park.
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tmfc posted:isn't this the same MIT group that recently put out a thinkpiece about how rural Africans' camp stoves are bad for the environment and that they should switch to greener cooking methods? that was a A+ scam piece to generate fake carbon offsets. someone will probably end up doing it too. claim they distributed 70,000 or so "green" whatevers and then claim the carbon saved by those 70,000 green whatevers
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bedpan posted:that was a A+ scam piece to generate fake carbon offsets. someone will probably end up doing it too. claim they distributed 70,000 or so "green" whatevers and then claim the carbon saved by those 70,000 green whatevers what is a real carbon offset lmao
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Idk but it probably involves nuclear explosions
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inferis posted:what is a real carbon offset lmao in theory, ones where the group would in fact distribute and put into place the new stoves. this is still bullshit so the scam hedgefund dudes just skip all of that and go right to the claiming part.
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rural africans should burn coal to generate steam to spin a turbine to make electrons flow to a metal coil that gets hot to cook food, just like me
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carbon offsets are just a way for the libs to create another bullshit speculation market instead of implementing a pigovian tax, which is both simpler and more effective than any other option.
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ArmZ posted:carbon offsets are just a way for the libs to create another bullshit speculation market instead of implementing a pigovian tax, which is both simpler and more effective than any other option. Whoa, a tax? Hold on there, you must be new, we don't like taxes here. Haven't you heard of the Boston tea party? I remember a little bit about it, and I remember the word "taxes", so that must literally be the only thing they were protesting. Anyway, get out of here.
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SpacePig posted:Whoa, a tax? Hold on there, you must be new, we don't like taxes here. Haven't you heard of the Boston tea party? I remember a little bit about it, and I remember the word "taxes", so that must literally be the only thing they were protesting. Anyway, get out of here. Actually, it was "no taxation" - very clear, I assume the rest was just more of the same.
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How is mandatory overtime legal
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Fixins posted:How is mandatory overtime legal "Not wanting to work overtime" is not a protected class.  
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Fixins posted:How is mandatory overtime legal Games shouldn't end in ties 
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Fixins posted:How is mandatory overtime legal It's ~at-will employment~, if you don't agree to it being mandatory you're free to just leave Don't you dare think of using us as a reference or putting us on your resume if you don't give 2 weeks' notice first though. No we don't have to do the same for you, that's silly.
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i mean i get paid 1.5x for it but i'd much rather be doing drugs on the couch instead of wasting time working on poo poo i don't care about
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:i mean i get paid 1.5x for it but i'd much rather be doing drugs on the couch instead of wasting time working on poo poo i don't care about Look at this stupid company that doesn't just make you salaried so they can require overtime without having to pay more
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you know what would solve that problem? a world-wide solar network so power could be generated 24 hours a day and distrubuted where its needed at various times of the day. otoh it would just be easier to keep shoveling coal into a furnace and burn up the planet
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Shame Boy posted:Look at this stupid company that doesn't just make you salaried so they can require overtime without having to pay more you'd probably have to have an employee bank about 20 hours of continuous OT every week before it becomes cheaper then making someone a FTE and giving them health insurance obviously varies based on the hourly pay rate and how many family members that employee would put on their plan.
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tmfc posted:isn't this the same MIT group that recently put out a thinkpiece about how rural Africans' camp stoves are bad for the environment and that they should switch to greener cooking methods? that was Duke lol
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The Nastier Nate posted:you know what would solve that problem? a world-wide solar network so power could be generated 24 hours a day and distrubuted where its needed at various times of the day. Sure, let me just install a transatlantic cable big enough to carry the entire electrical demand of north and south america
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The Nastier Nate posted:you'd probably have to have an employee bank about 20 hours of continuous OT every week before it becomes cheaper then making someone a FTE and giving them health insurance The cruelty is the point. You have to remind the serfs that they are below you, the middle manager, at all times.
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Shame Boy posted:Sure, let me just install a transatlantic cable big enough to carry the entire electrical demand of north and south america Sounds good, let's get building. How many aircraft carriers would it cost?
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Shame Boy posted:Sure, let me just install a transatlantic cable big enough to carry the entire electrical demand of north and south america It's sunlight. We can just put angled mirrors in Europe, point them at solar batteries across the ocean, and they will transport solar energy to America literally at the speed of light!
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nuclear plant seasteads, all in a line, each responsible for one part of the cable make me ruler of earth and i will electrocute every fish in the ocean by next week
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tokin opposition posted:Can't wait until the marketing big brains get their hands on this, like a sexy beer lady cutout that giggles when you look at her tits it's already a thing for out of home digital ads. eg at bus stops.
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