▲ 766 ▼ Fahrenheit vs. Celsius vs. Kelvin (i.imgur.com) submitted 2 years ago by genfood@feddit.de to c/science_memes@mander.xyz 155 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] NightAuthor@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (2 children) Curious, how easy is it for you to understand what X°F is? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) I don't have the need to know it. But the comfort of rubes is not a reason to persist in a backward unit. But again, the US is such a backward and sick country in so many other ways, that is even better they keep acting backwards. It's a reminder to the rest of the world to keep our distance. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] NightAuthor@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (1 child) That’s not particularly nice. I said nothing ill against you, and I feel it’d be implied by my question that I am one of the “rubes” you’re speaking of. Such an unwarranted jab. And wishing for the suffering of 300,000,000 people is cruel. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 2 years ago* And wishing for the suffering of 300,000,000 people is cruel. I'll tell you what: when your country stops destroying other countries (including mine) for profit, I'll see if I can develop any empathy for you. Until then, you don't deserve it. permalink fedilink source parent [–] fushuan@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago Google "XF to C". That easy. Every time. I never use freedom units so if I read some reference points I'll forget them by the time I read the next freedom unit. I only know my height and what an inch is because of phones and screens. Feet are not intuitive at all either, my gf has 5 on the US scale and I have 13.5, one is 22cm and the other is 31cm. That's a huge margin on what the us feet unit actually is. Turns out that feet are 30.48cm, so basically my feet is actually a us feet, yay. I'll forget this tomorrow. cm is arbitrary too, yeah, but at least it has the ease of conversion. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) I don't have the need to know it. But the comfort of rubes is not a reason to persist in a backward unit. But again, the US is such a backward and sick country in so many other ways, that is even better they keep acting backwards. It's a reminder to the rest of the world to keep our distance. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] NightAuthor@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (1 child) That’s not particularly nice. I said nothing ill against you, and I feel it’d be implied by my question that I am one of the “rubes” you’re speaking of. Such an unwarranted jab. And wishing for the suffering of 300,000,000 people is cruel. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 2 years ago* And wishing for the suffering of 300,000,000 people is cruel. I'll tell you what: when your country stops destroying other countries (including mine) for profit, I'll see if I can develop any empathy for you. Until then, you don't deserve it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] NightAuthor@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (1 child) That’s not particularly nice. I said nothing ill against you, and I feel it’d be implied by my question that I am one of the “rubes” you’re speaking of. Such an unwarranted jab. And wishing for the suffering of 300,000,000 people is cruel. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 2 years ago* And wishing for the suffering of 300,000,000 people is cruel. I'll tell you what: when your country stops destroying other countries (including mine) for profit, I'll see if I can develop any empathy for you. Until then, you don't deserve it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 2 years ago* And wishing for the suffering of 300,000,000 people is cruel. I'll tell you what: when your country stops destroying other countries (including mine) for profit, I'll see if I can develop any empathy for you. Until then, you don't deserve it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] fushuan@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago Google "XF to C". That easy. Every time. I never use freedom units so if I read some reference points I'll forget them by the time I read the next freedom unit. I only know my height and what an inch is because of phones and screens. Feet are not intuitive at all either, my gf has 5 on the US scale and I have 13.5, one is 22cm and the other is 31cm. That's a huge margin on what the us feet unit actually is. Turns out that feet are 30.48cm, so basically my feet is actually a us feet, yay. I'll forget this tomorrow. cm is arbitrary too, yeah, but at least it has the ease of conversion. permalink fedilink source parent