wandermind

joined 2 years ago
[–] wandermind@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Canada and the UK have switched from the imperial system to the metric system relatively recently, and as such it is understandable that the imperial system is still entrenched in some areas (such as possibly cooking).

Most metric countries have been metric for centuries and use metric for basically everything, and certainly don't randomly use Fahrenheit of all things.

If your idea about Metric countries is Canada or the UK, then you don't really have an idea.

[–] wandermind@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

52°F for someone used to living in a cold climate can still be quite pleasant but I find at under 50°F the amount of time I can spend outside without proper bundling shortens with each couple degrees.

11°C for someone used to living in a cold climate can still be quite pleasant but i find at under 10°C the amount of time I can spend outside without proper bundling shortens with each degree.

...means pretty much the exact same thing.

[–] wandermind@sopuli.xyz 14 points 2 years ago (43 children)

I vehemently disagree with the common American trope that Celsius is good for science but that Fahrenheit would somehow be objectively better for everyday temperatures.

As a Celsius user, my experience is completely opposite to yours: 10C or 50F is starting to be quite cool already, bordering on cold, but you still have a whole 18 degrees F to go before freezing?! Why do you need so damn many subsivisions to describe that relatively small gap in temperature?

Mind you, I'm also not saying that Celsius is the superior everyday temperature scale (even though in my mind it obviously is). With temperature scales it's really about what you're used to more so than with most other kinds of measurements.

[–] wandermind@sopuli.xyz 36 points 2 years ago

I can't help but wince whenever I see someone hold in a sneeze. It gives me physical discomfort.

[–] wandermind@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

They might not be but our echo chamber is.

Also I don't see you denying being pro-genocide, pro-war, and pro-dictator.

[–] wandermind@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No analogy is 1:1.

[–] wandermind@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 years ago

At least it pretended to.

Modern-day Russia doesn't even try to pretend.

[–] wandermind@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Our pro-democracy, pro-peace "echo chamber" > Your pro-genocide, pro-war, pro-dictator echo chamber

[–] wandermind@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I can imagine back in 1942 you'd been like "Shut down Hitler....any day now, for going on 3 years"

[–] wandermind@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 years ago

To me "hydro line" sounds like a weird way to say "water pipe".

[–] wandermind@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 years ago

So you would say the USSR won in Afghanistan?

[–] wandermind@sopuli.xyz 18 points 2 years ago (4 children)

What does Ukraine "losing" mean to you at this point of the war?

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