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No doubt, ambient temperature can make a difference, especially in baking. I’m glad you brought up that point. But I guess what I’m saying is that it is not a direct 1:1 comparison. If it’s 5° warmer in your house and you have to add 5° to the final cooking temperature, that would be a direct correlation but if you’re saying it’s 5° hotter in your house therefore you need to bake something for x% longer, the scale at which you measured your home temperature is immaterial.

I get what you’re trying to say, and I don’t fully disagree with you. But your point about what a temperature “feels” like actually illustrates my point. We both know what a ten degree swing feels like in our respective measurements, but I would say that that feeling means nothing in regard to 10° difference in cooking temperatures. The feeling you would use to know if your steak is overdone or underdone is not the same feeling as it being shorts weather versus sweater weather.

I perhaps did not separate my points well.

Point one is challenging the results in a very close elections is acceptable and even important because it ensures the accuracy of the results. I take no issue with anyone, of either party, doing so in earnest.

Point two is that SCOTUS stopped the legitimate recount of the close results on Florida but it wasn’t because Gore/the recount was unreasonable.

What I see with these Republicans in contested races is simply to ignore the results and stubbornly refuse to accept results, often even after recounts.

I’m saying there is literally zero advantage to ambient temperature and cooking temperature being on the same scale. There’s no actionable information gained by knowing that shorts weather is 20C and chicken needs to be cooked to 74C. You wouldn’t ever, say, need to increase the temperature of chicken 54C because it is 20C out. They are mathematically on the same scale, and can use the same units of measurement, but if they do it’s coincidental. Effectively they are different things.

I wouldn’t advocate for a different system of ambient temperature measurement but for the fact that Fahrenheit already exists. I feel confident that I’ve outlined pragmatic advantages, more than simply “I’m used to it.”

K is however a more annoying scale to use for normal/human temps

C is just K with zero set at “it feels moderately cold.”

Kudos for the six-feet under joke!

I’ll counter the cooking argument with the following; you already have to learn different measurements even if it’s all nominally in Celsius degrees because cooking temperatures and ambient temperatures do not overlap. That there’s no real reason a degree in the same unit is helpful when knowing 30 degrees C is “hot” and chicken needs to be cooked to 74 degrees C, or bread at 190. They are already different things.

Fair enough, but I don’t recall it being so much contested (or Gore refusing to concede) but rather that SCOTUS stepping in before the recount was complete.

Ensuring close elections are accurately called is understandable, simply refusing to accept the results is not.

I haven’t yet read the article, but my money is on the latter in this case.

Ernest question, are there any examples of judges having to force election boards to seat, Republicans in contested seats?

I will, because I’m picking up that I’m making you uncomfortable.

Take note.

Shuttle Endeavour is housed at the California Science Center in Los Angeles, and fun fact, the Tundra that towed it is also still on display there.