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[-] StillNoLeftLeft@hexbear.net 8 points 12 hours ago

Read the thread and I feel like I'm tripping, because I think I've read pretty much the exact same Fahrenheit/Celsius convo on this here website not that long ago, lol.

[-] ThermonuclearHoxha@hexbear.net 18 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

1万度を 超える 炎を 吐く。 大きく 燃え盛る たてがみを 振り乱しながら 仲間を 護る。

The Japanese entry simply refers to surpassing "10,000 degrees" (presumably Celsius).

[-] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 4 points 14 hours ago

If this was 2007 there would have been so many jokes about this

[-] Bobson_Dugnutt@hexbear.net 54 points 20 hours ago

It's a perfectly logical system of measurement: zero is the freezing temperature of a solution of brine made from a mixture of water, ice, and ammonium chloride; and 100 degrees is the body temperature of a horse.

[-] mrfugu@hexbear.net 11 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

My biggest gripe with celsius is that the numbers are too small when talking about weather . So I’m making a new temperature unit I’m calling Jelsius. It’s just celsius times 3. Water still freezes at zero but now it boils at 300.

If you need me I’ll be by my mailbox waiting for the nobel to come in.

[-] Soot@hexbear.net 10 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Who the hell can tell the difference? e.g. A difference from 15 to 16 degrees is borderline imperceptible. And if you really need it, decimal points are right there.

[-] mrfugu@hexbear.net 0 points 4 hours ago

For sure decimals are a good option I just don’t see weather reported with decimals very often

[-] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 9 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Yeah I've never understood that argument. The only time I can feel a single degree difference is if I'm going swimming in winter

[-] Fossifoo@hexbear.net 2 points 8 hours ago

What do you mean, decimal points? Is that like a sixteenth of a degree?

[-] into_highest_invite@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 8 hours ago

yeah but it's convenient to have 10-degree differences instead of 5-degree differences for getting dressed. plus i definitely adjust my car thermostat by 2 or 3 degrees. i guess you could do that in celsius too with your weird half-degree thermostats but what a pain in the ass.

[-] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 2 points 7 hours ago

My car just has a red bar and a blue bar that determines how cold the air is. The other thing reads to me like the guy who told me he didn't like football because the numbers were too small.

[-] into_highest_invite@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 7 hours ago

in this case my main gripe is the numbers take up too much space but you're right that as far as thermostats go, it's a minor nitpick. really everything about units of measure is a minor nitpick though.

[-] volcel_olive_oil@hexbear.net 15 points 17 hours ago

this is my dog. he can vaporize steel with his breath. he's safe to pet tho

[-] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 9 points 14 hours ago

Probably named cupcake or something

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 25 points 19 hours ago

I like how his head is 炎

[-] Flyberius@hexbear.net 7 points 16 hours ago

Yeah, clever

[-] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 15 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

This is either the temperature of the surface of the sun or a particularly hot summer noon.

[-] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 32 points 20 hours ago

Usually when someone brings up Fahrenheit there'll be some dumbass who comes in and talks about how it's better because it makes more sense and is intuitive.

  1. It doesn't make more sense, it's completely arbitrary (unlike my beloved Celsius and Kelvin which are merely somewhat arbitrary)
  2. It's more intuitive because that's what you grew up with
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[-] Keld@hexbear.net 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Edit: Wait no that's not a starter

why can't burgerlands be normal and use celsius

[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 20 points 16 hours ago
[-] into_highest_invite@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 hours ago

will learning about meters give me huge balls?

[-] red_giant@hexbear.net 14 points 16 hours ago

Celsius vs Fahrenheit is an example of everyone being wrong because KELVIN is the SI unit of temperature and it is the most useful unit because it also functions as an ominous Mayan-calendar style clock ticking down to the end of the universe

[-] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 10 points 14 hours ago

Kelvin is just celsius with a different baseline, thus making celsius good.

[-] Soot@hexbear.net 6 points 13 hours ago

I'm afraid Celsius is officially defined by the kelvin, not the other way around

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[-] echolalia@lemmy.ml 30 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Wikipedia says the surface of the sun is 5,772 K which is about 10,000 F.

Lion is hotter than the surface of the sun.

This agrees with my personal fan theory that Ash Ketchum wrote the pokedex himself. The pokedex is perfect and makes logical sense at all times.

Hope this helps.

[-] Kefla@hexbear.net 16 points 21 hours ago

Regular old mundane lightning here on earth is also hotter than the surface of the sun, so it's not that wild. Although I think if it was that hot for very long it would be pretty catastrophic.

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[-] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 32 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Fun fact, we don't have lbs in my country either, so when I was first exposed to the Red version pokédex as a kid and all the weights were in lbs I was like "what the heck is a libs?"

[-] radio_free_asgarthr@hexbear.net 25 points 22 hours ago

It would have been funny if they localized the English version for Britain rather than the US and all the weights were given in stones.

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 21 points 21 hours ago

Behold, the SS Anne, at least 100 cubits long and weighing at least 50 stone, it gets over 5 barleycorn to a demiard of kerosene!

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[-] Meltyheartlove@hexbear.net 22 points 22 hours ago

The recently spotted ufo was 50 brunches wide and 2000 libs heavy.

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[-] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 17 points 20 hours ago

Don't remember if they're all sfw/agreeable but the first few were fine. The beautiful mind of a 10 year old

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