I'll admit I've never watched Stargate, but I thought it was scifi? I didn't realise it engaged with Egyptian mythology.

See that Celsius graph is precisely the nonsense I'm trying to point out. 0 ℃ isn't "fairly cold outside". It's literally the definition of freezing cold. 0 ℉ is "dead" if you're not wearing quite heavy clothing. 0 ℃ is "really cold outside" and still understating things.

I mean, I deliberately avoided using terms like "hot summer days" and "usual winter day" because that's far more dependent on where you are. Where I am it's:

• Really hot summer days (35 ℃)
• Usual summer days (30 ℃)
• Room temperature (24 ℃)
• Spring / autumn days (25 ℃)
• Chilly outside (18 ℃)
• Cold outside / usual winter days (15 ℃)
• Winter nights (10 ℃)

So I used words that are about the experience of a person in those temperatures in comfortable light clothing, rather than times of year. And obviously there's some subjectivity there, with some people being more comfortable in cold temperatures than others. But still, we're talking about the comfortable mid point varying from mid 20s to high 10s. There's no reasonable world in which 50 ℉ (10 ℃) is the midpoint.

It’s just the zero that’s absolute

Right, that's what makes Rankine and Kelvin absolute scales, while Fahrenheit and Celsius are relative.

x_0 - delta and x_0

Lemmy actually supports proper subscript (though not not clients do). Surround with tildes (single tildes, rather than the double tildes of strike-through).

x~0~ - δ is x~0~ - δ

Edit: and now, at least on Jerboa, the code block version is displaying incorrectly, although it now does support the actual subscript…

I've always hated this justification of Fahrenheit. For it to be a good argument, 50 °F would need to be the ideal comfortable temperature. But instead 50 is really fucking cold. 100 just isn't as hot as 0 is cold.

Also Rankine, being an absolute scale, theoretically shouldn't be in ° anything, and it's only some weird historical quirk that is the reason it usually is called degrees.

!aom@lemm.ee leaking

Yeah, it's one of the very few advantages of the fact that their elections—even federal elections—are not actually standardised nationwide. States run them according to their own rules. Mostly this is a bad thing, but it does mean that one place can improve their system like this as an experiment, without needing to convince the entire country to do it at once.

So I think there are 2 states that do IRV currently. And there might be a few more places where IRV is used in non-congressional/presidential races.

I have a few alt codes memorised, but not very many. 0151 and 0150 are — and – (em and en dash) respectively 8230 is ellipsis, except for some reason that doesn't work in all applications, including web browsers.

255 is apparently the non-breaking space, so same as U+00A0 mentioned above. It can also be written in some websites (including here) with  . Like this.

Oddly, IRV is actually seeing some success, slowly growing across the States. But compulsory voting is basically a non-starter over there.

As someone who's worked at elections a few times before, please please don't do this. We're barely above minimum wage and receive an hour of online training. We don't know how to handle that situation. One voter, one cross off, one issued ballot, it's supposed to be. It'll make things very awkward at the end of the night when it comes to reconciling the ballots if the numbers don't add up.

Just take the ballot and put it in the box. What happens between then, I don't care.