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Nissan develops paint that keeps cars cool in summer heat (www.asahi.com)
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Nissan Motor Co. said it has developed a new type of paint that significantly reduces the temperature inside vehicles parked in direct sunlight.

The surface of a car coated with the innovative material remains up to 12 degrees cooler than that of a vehicle with standard paint, tests showed.

The company said the coating material can help rein in the temperature rise not only on the car's body but also in the vehicle when exposed to direct sunlight.

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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (16 children)

I agree clarification never hurts, but the entire world except for ~4% of highly entitled population will read that right.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    There’s no need for that attitude though.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

    Fair, my bad! Sorry if it was offensive.

    I just got a little sick of all the Fahrenheit (and also Imperial) domination around here. This, in turn, is often left without clarification, despite the system being way less popular.

    Lemmy as a platform is extremely America-centric, despite having tons of folks from everywhere else, which is aggravating in the long run. World really, really doesn't all revolve around land of the free.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    Being from Russia, I'm fine with people using the units they are more confident with or used to.

    (Not specifying units may be a bit confusing, but then people here don't say\write "it's 20 degrees Celsius" either.)

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Russian-languaged media is not commonly consumed by someone living under imperial/Fahrenheit system, so it's only natural.

    For English, it might make sense to at least always add Celsius in parentheses, unless it's highly regional news.

    Also, привет российским леммиводам :D

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  • [+] -7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    The attitude comes from Americans expecting the world circling around them.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The comment asked to list out the units which is a common thing to do. You don’t list out a scientific value without its units. They didn’t say list it out for Americans. Maybe the study was done in the US and they listed it in F. How would you know? So who came in here with an attitude?

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  • [–] -4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    No, they converted it to Fahrenheit because that's what they use & expect to be clarified upon.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    No, they first listed the units which is Celsius and then converted it themselves and didn’t excepted it to be converted. No one is complaining that it’s not in F but rather that the units are missing.

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  • [–] -5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Given that a lot of English language media are either located in the US or target the US market, I'd expect the value to be expressed in Fahrenheit unless stated otherwise.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Original article is about Asia, and Lemmy is an international platform, so neither applies here

    I don't mind some actually regional things presented in whatever system they use in there - although I'd much prefer if we'd all go metric already. C'mon!

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    The original article is not about Asia, it's about a technical innovation. Regardless, although we're on an international platform, it's easy to see that many topics are US-centered, and many sources too - regardless of the subject.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    "Asia&Japan Watch" is right under their name.

    This topic is not centered in the US by any metric. It's just an example of a Lemmy bias.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago

    a lot of English language media are either located in the US or target the US market

    or target the US market

    So regardless of the website's name or origin, it could be an English language outlet targeted at the US audience. Which is quite common. Which is why I explicitly added this remark to the comment you initially replied.

    So why are we back here? What exactly are you trying to prove? All I said that I'd expect a value to be expressed in Fahrenheit unless stated otherwise. I didn't say that you should do that, or that's somewhat objective. I was simply arguing that despite only ~4% of population using Fahrenheit, it has much more influence due to the listed factors.

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