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[-] Bobson_Dugnutt@hexbear.net 55 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.

[-] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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

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[-] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 32 points 2 weeks 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
[-] Bobson_Dugnutt@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago

Those in the know use the Rankine scale think-about-it

Not to be confused with the Rankin scale

[-] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 15 points 2 weeks ago

Rankine is kelvin for fahrenheit? that's funny

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[-] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 32 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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!

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

Yes but how many farthings can it cross in fortnight while taking the hobbits to Isengard?

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[-] Meltyheartlove@hexbear.net 22 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] purpleworm@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Meltyheartlove@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

We are now reporting that the ufo was in fact 25

[-] purpleworm@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago

This indicates a problematic brunch gap.

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[-] echolalia@lemmy.ml 30 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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.

[-] purpleworm@hexbear.net 10 points 2 weeks ago

Lightning also functionally only exists for a fraction of a second (most of the time) and then its energy is dispersed. It's like how sparks are also ridiculously hot, but they are tiny and fleeting so it doesn't really effect anything. I think any stable entity that has lightning-like heat as just a base temperature is kind of incomparable in terms of impact, though I realize you already said that, but I guess my point is that this creature isn't as hot as a lightning strike, it's as hot as hundreds of successive lightning strikes on the same spot (and then the mega evo wears out, I guess).

[-] huf@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago

and this pokemon doesnt exist at all, which is much less than a fraction of a second, so it can easily be hotter than lightning

[-] purpleworm@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I should have considered that because it doesn't exist, it neither retains nor produces any heat at all and therefore should be an ice type. Perhaps ice/ghost, since ghosts don't exist, or ice/dark because in Japanese dark type is "evil type" and moral values don't exist . . . maybe it should have all three types, since Pokemon with three types don't exist.

[-] huf@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago

the least existing type of pokemon exists the most, yes

[-] purpleworm@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

So, in our emerging field of Pokemon ontology, you would rate a Sound type Pokemon as existing more than a Fire type Pokemon because the Sound type, by virtue of not existing, exists less than the Fire type?

Would this constitute a sort of hypostatic union of existence and non-existence? If not, how would you define the Great Chain of Un-Being here? [i.e. the hierarchy of unreality that makes one unreal thing less real than another unreal thing]

why can't burgerlands be normal and use celsius

[-] red_giant@hexbear.net 15 points 2 weeks 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 11 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] Soot@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

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

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[-] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago

Because it makes the europeans mad.

[-] sictransitgloria@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago

but they're also europeans, a few times removed

[-] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

none of the ancestor countries want modern "i'm x% whatever" americans to move there. I'm cool with dying because i'm miserable regardless but that's not going to work for most people.

[-] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago

I still remember when I three years ago made an effortpost about why americans should shut the fuck up with their weird "I'm from this country"-one-blood-drop-rule-bs. Made a lot of hexbears mad.

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[-] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago

It does, I'm literally fuming

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 25 points 2 weeks ago

I like how his head is 炎

[-] Flyberius@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, clever

[-] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago

wtf is up with the wartortle one lol

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[-] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

[-] volcel_olive_oil@hexbear.net 15 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago

Probably named cupcake or something

[-] miz@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago

10 °C -> 50 °F
20 °C -> 68 °F
30 °C -> 86 °F
40 °C -> 104°F

[-] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

-40° C -> -40° F

575 K -> 575° F

hope this helps

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[-] blinfabian@feddit.nl 10 points 2 weeks ago

18 000 F might as well be a billion F as it means nothing to me, just like inch and feet. wtf is a yard if not a backyard???

[-] Bobson_Dugnutt@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

A yard is 3 feet, or 36 inches, or 1/1,760th of a mile. Makes perfect sense to me.

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[-] StillNoLeftLeft@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] Andrzej3K@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

That's not a Pokemon it's a dog dressed up

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