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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • Some people seem to have this misconception that “0F cold 100F hot” is somehow an innate or intuitive concept for everyone. It’s not, brother, you just happen to be used to it. I have absolutely no idea if I should wear a coat with 62F or not, or for any other F temperature for that matter.

    At least 0C and 100C have very practical references that anyone can recognise, but what the hell even is 0F and 100F?

    Also, not sure why you’re trying to shoehorn 0-100F to 0-100C.

    When talking about weather, it’s going to be in a range like 0C (cold) / 20C (nice) / 40C (hot), which is equally arbitrary but probably more useful than 0F/50F/100F anyway depending on where you live: my neck of the woods goes to 0C in a harsh winter, and to 40C in the peak of summer.

    And do you use F for stuff like cooking? What purpose is 0F or 100F there?

    How about stuff like chemistry or physics? I remember formulas in C or K, occasionally having to add 273.5. Is F used, or you just use K/C and convert at the start?



  • There’s strong statistical evidence suggesting that millennials are, on average, older than gen z’ers. It not clear from the latest studies what could have caused this presumed age gap.

    Those same studies also evidenced the startling fact that the tested individuals shared over 99.9% of their genome and could in fact belong to the same species, which is what prompted all the recent controversy after one of the lead researchers said in a televised interview that “they’re all people”.







  • This isn’t the reason, it doesn’t matter if Hamas accuses them or not.

    They’re considered hostages because Hamas wants to release them in exchange for something.

    Israel imprisons Palestinian as a punishment or to achieve specific goals that are not met by releasing them (like preventing political prisoners from engaging with society).

    I don’t think either term is morally superior to the other, but they do have some different connotations…