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ArbitraryC posted:Negative temperatures are literally nonsensical in the first place, so Celsius is just as dumb, arbitrary, and useless of a system as Farenheight and people who tend to make a big stink about it are the "I loving love science" facebook idiots who think science is a someone staring intently at a beaker as they swish it in circles. lol
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vyelkin posted:coming into the hosed up things americans do thread to declare a fatwa on negative numbers there's a germ of a good point in that as far as scientific discourse is concerned you really shouldn't be using negative numbers when discussing deltas because it just gets confusing, i.e., if there was a change from (-10) C to (+15) C, then you refer to it as a delta of 25 kelvin, but that still means fahrenheit is the hosed-up outlier because there's already a way to deal with that issue with celsius
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gradenko_2000 posted:there's a germ of a good point in that as far as scientific discourse is concerned you really shouldn't be using negative numbers when discussing deltas because it just gets confusing, i.e., if there was a change from (-10) C to (+15) C, then you refer to it as a delta of 25 kelvin, but that still means fahrenheit is the hosed-up outlier because there's already a way to deal with that issue with celsius
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ArbitraryC posted:No I mean the actual definition of temperature is incompatible with the idea of there being negative temperatures and the reason Kelvin (or Rankine lmao) is necessary is as our understanding of thermodynamics increased this discrepancy became irreconcilable with the math associated with these fields. Celcius is just as made up and dumb unit of temperature measurement as farenheight is. If a country was using a scale with absolute zero they could get smug about it but afaik none do, everyone just uses something arbitrary that made sense at the time of invention for whatever reason and stuck around due to convenience. they make posts like this
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gradenko_2000 posted:you can argue FOR kelvin if you want but fahrenheit still sucks regardless Behold, the compromise used in American aerospace engineering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rankine_scale
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Kreeblah posted:Behold, the compromise used in American aerospace engineering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rankine_scale well, this belongs in the thread
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ArbitraryC posted:No I mean the actual definition of temperature is incompatible with the idea of there being negative temperatures and the reason Kelvin (or Rankine lmao) is necessary is as our understanding of thermodynamics increased this discrepancy became irreconcilable with the math associated with these fields. Celcius is just as made up and dumb unit of temperature measurement as farenheight is. If a country was using a scale with absolute zero they could get smug about it but afaik none do, everyone just uses something arbitrary that made sense at the time of invention for whatever reason and stuck around due to convenience. It's for telling us about the weather, so freezing point is a very useful thing to structure it around for the vast majority of people and how they engage with it. Kelvin is good for certain science situations. Fahrenheit's freezing point of a specific brine (???) is not useful or relevant to anything.
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ArbitraryC posted:Negative temperatures are literally nonsensical in the first place, so Celsius is just as dumb, arbitrary, and useless of a system as Farenheight and people who tend to make a big stink about it are the "I loving love science" facebook idiots who think science is a someone staring intently at a beaker as they swish it in circles. Yeah if you read my post on the matter you will see that I agree and that my objections are things like "everyone else uses this other method" and "lol Americans too dumb" vyelkin posted:coming into the hosed up things americans do thread to declare a fatwa on negative numbers Americans think a fatwa is a middle eastern food.
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ArbitraryC posted:No I mean the actual definition of temperature is incompatible with the idea of there being negative temperatures and the reason Kelvin (or Rankine lmao) is necessary is as our understanding of thermodynamics increased this discrepancy became irreconcilable with the math associated with these fields. Celcius is just as made up and dumb unit of temperature measurement as farenheight is. If a country was using a scale with absolute zero they could get smug about it but afaik none do, everyone just uses something arbitrary that made sense at the time of invention for whatever reason and stuck around due to convenience. being this dreadfully stupid is another
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Wait in a long line of cars for 45+ minutes for gasoline at Costco to save maybe $0.10 (10 cents) per gallon. So... maybe $1.50 or $2 if you have a large Buy a whole bunch of useless poo poo that smells like "pot pourri' and "decorate" your house with things like this  and thank u for a house palindrome has issued a correction as of 06:24 on Jan 10, 2023 |
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silicone thrills posted:I think the US is like one of the only countries in the that washes chicken eggs which is why ours aren't room temp stable for months like everyone elses eggs. Its such bullshit. And its because there's so much salmonella rampant.
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ArbitraryC posted:Negative temperatures are literally nonsensical in the first place, so Celsius is just as dumb, arbitrary, and useless of a system as Farenheight and people who tend to make a big stink about it are the "I loving love science" facebook idiots who think science is a someone staring intently at a beaker as they swish it in circles. Rankine guy spotted.
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:drat this mf using kelvin Or Rankine  E; guess I was beat
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ArbitraryC posted:Negative temperatures are literally nonsensical in the first place lmao at this
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EEKA GEEK posted:lmao at this “zero? you’re the zero. get the gently caress outta here. natural numbers only.”
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ArbitraryC posted:No I mean the actual definition of temperature is incompatible with the idea of there being negative temperatures and the reason Kelvin (or Rankine lmao) is necessary is as our understanding of thermodynamics increased this discrepancy became irreconcilable with the math associated with these fields. Celcius is just as made up and dumb unit of temperature measurement as farenheight is. If a country was using a scale with absolute zero they could get smug about it but afaik none do, everyone just uses something arbitrary that made sense at the time of invention for whatever reason and stuck around due to convenience. if you don't understand negative numbers you might literally be american.
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exmarx posted:they do this negative form of american exceptionalism that is somehow even more annoying than the america #1 kind. like, "ooooh, you don't understand, improving healthcare/car use/foreign policy is just impossible because we're bad in such a special snowflake way" The whole 'the american people are literally powerless to stop our government from from murdering millions'.
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palindrome posted:Wait in a long line of cars for 45+ minutes for gasoline at Costco to save maybe $0.10 (10 cents) per gallon. So... maybe $1.50 or $2 if you have a large If you’ve never been in a Hobby Lobby it feels like being cursed. That’s the best way to explain it, you feel cursed and have an overwhelming urge to escape the Hobby Lobby. I don’t know if it’s because they’re pumping infrasound through the speakers or it’s actual curses radiating off all the looted relics.
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Speaking of ”United States of America v. Approximately Four Hundred Fifty Ancient Cuneiform Tablets and Approximately Three Thousand Ancient Clay Bullae” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby_Lobby_smuggling_scandal
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Cuttlefush posted:Has anyone actually not clocked an American as soon as they opened their eversmiling mouth if the slovenly American travel uniform did not give it away first It's polite to check, lest one inadvertently insult a canadian
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slinkimalinki posted:It's polite to check, lest one inadvertently insult a canadian you should insult them
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I like to call Canadians American, lets face it, they basically are.Trixie Hardcore posted:Minnesota is roughly the same size as the United Kingdom, Ghana or Laos. Is there anything of interest there?
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Weka posted:I like to call Canadians American, lets face it, they basically are. Paisley Palace
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Trixie Hardcore posted:If you’ve never been in a Hobby Lobby it feels like being cursed. That’s the best way to explain it, you feel cursed and have an overwhelming urge to escape the Hobby Lobby. I don’t know if it’s because they’re pumping infrasound through the speakers or it’s actual curses radiating off all the looted relics. hobby lobby is extremely cursed. I know it's a funny internet term but goddamn, spend 30 minutes in there trying to buy a gift of... Lily® Sugar 'n Cream® Solid Yarn | Hobby Lobby and you'll feel it. I was a 90s kid so I understand the low-key energy of these yarn stores but it is tremendously magnified, and unashamedly in your face which (I hope) makes it uniquely American. Rest assured as you are slowly cruising through strip-mall parking lots with ample speed bumps, that you will observe multiple 50-year-old women angrily stomping to and from this franchise store, hauling their various holiday or "live life love/wine tomorrow" merchandise.
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Weka posted:No, because unlike Americans, I do not seek to punish my enemies but to reform or disempower them. Lol get a load of this appeaser
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