am I terrible for expecting the first post to say "wanna fuck"
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I'm ok with throwing imperial measurements in the trash either piecemeal or all at once. Whatever he have the political will to do. For real though, no chickening out like the 1970s. No conservatives pointlessly digging in their heels like measurement systems are an actual point of political contention. I don't want a prolonged period of showing both systems. Instant switchover for everything new.
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As far as I'm concerned anything over like 72 and it's time to seal all the exits and turn the AC down to "see your breath"
It is 63 degrees right now, and I have the AC on in the apartment.
I have it programmed to be at 72 degrees during the day, and cool it down to 68, then go to 65 at night.
my thermostat stays on 64 year round. My electricity bill has been just over $100 in the winter many times
We have hotspots in the house though. Bedroom gets really hot, so yeah it can be cold as fuck in other parts of the house but I don't really care
Oh yeah our electric bill in winter is cheap. Summer though, it's so much swing we have balanced billing from our electric provider. Cause we have 80-110 in winter and 270-300 in the summer.
One summer we put in a work order to fix our AC, and the guy was like. It's 100 degrees outside, and 78 in your apartment. Your not going to get 30 degrees of cooling on this system.
So we got a Dyson Cool.
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Somebody once tried to explain to me that Fahrenheit was the superior scale for talking about temperature in human terms, because when it's 80F out that feels hotter than 27C would suggest.
If it gets over 70 there better be a god damn cooling breeze or I am going to turn on an AC unit somewhere.
perfect is 65 with a slight breeze, just a little something to get some air moving
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I'm ok with throwing imperial measurements in the trash either piecemeal or all at once. Whatever he have the political will to do. For real though, no chickening out like the 1970s. No conservatives pointlessly digging in their heels like measurement systems are an actual point of political contention. I don't want a prolonged period of showing both systems. Instant switchover for everything new.
Engineering and shit is much easier with metric units.
Some Brexit cretins think they can use our new isolationist mindset to go back to the imperial system. The most fuddy-duddy of the broadsheets called for a glorious return to Fahrenheit and presumably measuring distance in furlongs and height in spans and age by amputating a limb and counting the rings.
I'm ok with throwing imperial measurements in the trash either piecemeal or all at once. Whatever he have the political will to do. For real though, no chickening out like the 1970s. No conservatives pointlessly digging in their heels like measurement systems are an actual point of political contention. I don't want a prolonged period of showing both systems. Instant switchover for everything new.
It's not going to happen any time soon. There just isn't enough support and momentum for it.
@Elldren I don't really like being part of an XCOM or other roguelike/customizeable squad. It is mildly unsettling to have someone else controlling an avatar of me in whatever context; also having that avatar die is :bigfrown:
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dk there are people who can't even read an analog clock how can we expect them to count to 10
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I think replacing fluid measures with liters will work ok, low friction, thanks soda industry. Also exchanging ounces for grams in weighing stuff should also go well cause nobody knows how much an ounce weighs in their hand anyway. So swapping to grams, who would give a shit.
Start the metric replacement today please.
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Somebody once tried to explain to me that Fahrenheit was the superior scale for talking about temperature in human terms, because when it's 80F out that feels hotter than 27C would suggest.
I assume the grave was shallow, as befits such a creature?
The only benefit to F over C is that F being a smaller increment works better for atmospheric temperatures, and that's a pretty narrow benefit. That and I guess I would probably be uncomfortable trusting/unable to obtain a field reading at 0.1 C accuracy, so I can get more precision with 1 F readings than 1 C readings.
I'm ok with throwing imperial measurements in the trash either piecemeal or all at once. Whatever he have the political will to do. For real though, no chickening out like the 1970s. No conservatives pointlessly digging in their heels like measurement systems are an actual point of political contention. I don't want a prolonged period of showing both systems. Instant switchover for everything new.
I have to admit I like F for weather (more granular in the "livable human" range, etc), but we should use C and all other Metric units for anything else.
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If it's humid
as if that's a binary and not a constant
it's always humid
it's never not humid
your experience in your regions do not matter as you are all a figment of my imagination
I think replacing fluid measures with liters will work ok, low friction, thanks soda industry. Also exchanging ounces for grams in weighing stuff should also go well cause nobody knows how much an ounce weighs in their hand anyway. So swapping to grams, who would give a shit.
Start the metric replacement today please.
I agree we should, but until we run out of rednecks, we will always have Mph, Gallons, yards, pints acres and feet.
The perceived gains are so small there just isn't populist support to justify the "cost."
Because honestly, only scientists and engineers are super passionate about it.
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Donkey KongPutting Nintendo out of business with AI nipsRegistered Userregular
I'm ok with throwing imperial measurements in the trash either piecemeal or all at once. Whatever he have the political will to do. For real though, no chickening out like the 1970s. No conservatives pointlessly digging in their heels like measurement systems are an actual point of political contention. I don't want a prolonged period of showing both systems. Instant switchover for everything new.
I have to admit I like F for weather (more granular in the "livable human" range, etc), but we should use C and all other Metric units for anything else.
Fahrenheit has about double the granularity for integer values. That's really not much.
74°F to 72°F, 23°C to 22°C. It's not exactly like youve lost any meaningful expressiveness in terms of human experience. And if for some reason you need to, use a decimal place.
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I think replacing fluid measures with liters will work ok, low friction, thanks soda industry. Also exchanging ounces for grams in weighing stuff should also go well cause nobody knows how much an ounce weighs in their hand anyway. So swapping to grams, who would give a shit.
Start the metric replacement today please.
I agree we should, but until we run out of rednecks, we will always have Mph, Gallons, yards, pints acres and feet.
The perceived gains are so small there just isn't populist support to justify the "cost."
Because honestly, only scientists and engineers are super passionate about it.
You could..... you could just teach kids now both and then slowly phase out one?
In my current job I not only have to use m or feet depending on the situation, but also dumb shit like nautical miles and fathoms. Still haven't memorized those conversion factors. foot= 0.304 m?? ok, 0.3048, close enough. That's the only one I've got stored though.
whenever I review old plans from that particular era of the 70s I'm reminded how weirdly close we were to converting to SI
and then it didn't happen
Metric was officially adopted as the measurement system of the US at various points (there's a whole bunch of acts that apply to it), so, I mean, technically we're already on Metric just the population ignored it completely.
This is why you see things like BTU, grams, liters and all those pop up on labels and specifications.
Just like, we half assed it like we do everything else.
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I think I just wasn't into Asgard that much so it lost me. I'll have to give it another watch.
my thermostat stays on 64 year round. My electricity bill has been just over $100 in the winter many times
We have hotspots in the house though. Bedroom gets really hot, so yeah it can be cold as fuck in other parts of the house but I don't really care
This humblebrag.
Maybe a little bit
Look we're not perfect. Kilometres and buying beer in anything other than pints may be beyond us.
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Oh yeah our electric bill in winter is cheap. Summer though, it's so much swing we have balanced billing from our electric provider. Cause we have 80-110 in winter and 270-300 in the summer.
One summer we put in a work order to fix our AC, and the guy was like. It's 100 degrees outside, and 78 in your apartment. Your not going to get 30 degrees of cooling on this system.
So we got a Dyson Cool.
perfect is 65 with a slight breeze, just a little something to get some air moving
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Engineering and shit is much easier with metric units.
I'm sorry I know not everyone has two gaming laptops in their bedroom. I'm sorry for being a braggart
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weird, but community appropriate euphemism
Start the metric replacement today please.
I assume the grave was shallow, as befits such a creature?
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depends on humidity
85 is a nice "I'd like to lounge around outside" weather
if it's humid or I'm being asked to do manual labor, fuck that noise
I have to admit I like F for weather (more granular in the "livable human" range, etc), but we should use C and all other Metric units for anything else.
as if that's a binary and not a constant
it's always humid
it's never not humid
your experience in your regions do not matter as you are all a figment of my imagination
and that's about the only real benefit to it
I don't need to say "twenty seven point six" to say 82
and then it didn't happen
have you tried not living in a swamp
The entire east coast is swamp.
But, occasionally, the wind blows just right off the great lakes to make it not 101%
In your imagination I'd like to be thought of as rich as Hades, and being Tom Hiddleston - who is actually Loki, with a successful Hollywood career.
The perceived gains are so small there just isn't populist support to justify the "cost."
Because honestly, only scientists and engineers are super passionate about it.
Fahrenheit has about double the granularity for integer values. That's really not much.
74°F to 72°F, 23°C to 22°C. It's not exactly like youve lost any meaningful expressiveness in terms of human experience. And if for some reason you need to, use a decimal place.
You could..... you could just teach kids now both and then slowly phase out one?
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Why is your imagination such a jerk sometimes?
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Metric was officially adopted as the measurement system of the US at various points (there's a whole bunch of acts that apply to it), so, I mean, technically we're already on Metric just the population ignored it completely.
This is why you see things like BTU, grams, liters and all those pop up on labels and specifications.
Just like, we half assed it like we do everything else.