European propaganda DESTROYED
Americans using the word propaganda for “something I don’t understand because my school system failed me so now I overcompensate by making up factoids that make me look even more uneducated by the rest of the world”
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pH3ra@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
PugJesus@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Americans using the word propaganda for “something I don’t understand because my school system failed me so now I overcompensate by making up factoids that make me look even more uneducated by the rest of the world”
Whoosh.
Fmstrat@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m geniunly curious why you are getting down voted. The “propaganda” word choice is clearly part of the joke.
I mean, I wish we used C instead of F, but this take is still a whoosh.
moopet@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Repurposing words like that is underrated.
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
0 hot? So what about when it’s -40?
PugJesus@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
-40% hot, that’s pretty damn cold!
hoch@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
0% hot = 100% cold
so
-40 hot = 140% cold
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If it gets hot this year I’m going to go off to my partner about how its almost 0% cold.
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Sounds like girl math. 😜
adarza@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
that’s when the two scales collide…
-40FC…
‘fucking cold’
db2@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Can confirm this is accurate.
kinsnik@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
funnily, the same as -40 C
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Yes, intentional.
makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I understand you’re being sassy but below zero you do start saying “no but seriously, how can it be this cold?” Zero is about the lower limit before temperature stops being distinguishable and just becomes cold
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
T he ere is a BIG difference between 0F, -20F and -40F. And as someone that has worked in areas that has often seen -60F, -20F feels like spring in comparison.
uienia@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Spoken like somebody who doesn’t experience freezing degrees very often.
ieGod@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Lol no.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Humans shouldn’t exist in zones outside 0-100
Typhoon@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I like how they claimed Fahrenheit made sense by relating it to a scale between 0 and 100 because a grade divided into 100 pieces (centigrade) is a system that is easy to handle. If only there was a unit of measurement that was already like that.
Cort@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No they’re relating average earth temperature/weather to a centigrade scale, instead of relating liquid water to one.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 2 weeks ago
Average is one number, not a range. Do you mean standard deviation?
uienia@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It is not average Earth temperature though.
Saapas@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
“Average earth temperature”? Lmao
JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
I might catch flak for this, but I understand Fahrenheit made a ton of sense of an illiterate bygone era (well, I guess coming back maybe)
The vast majority of people were uneducated. Decimals were a non-starter, maybe negatives were also difficult?
0-100 was very easy. Under 0? Don’t go outside if possible. Over 100? Don’t go outside if possible. >50/halfway? Time for a coat. Having the same scale from -15 to 40 might have been confusing and not centered for them?
vaderaj@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
How is freezing cold, 32% hot? What am I missing here?
offspec@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Because I can still walk to the mailbox in shorts at 32
Honytawk@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
You could still do that at -10F, so I don’t get your argument.
m0darn@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
You guys are too ignorant to see how full of shit OP is.
50F is not 50% hot, it’s cold. If your house was 50F you’d be saying “something is wrong with my HVAC”. You’d never heat to only 50, and you’d never cool that far. It’s cellar temperature (colder than a wine cellar, warmer than a root cellar).
70F is 50% hot. It’s a temp you’d cool to in the summer, and a temp you’d heat to in the winter.
100F isn’t 100% hot either, most people enjoy a hottub to be a little hotter.
Tldr: OP is wrong
Xenny@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
50 degress feels pretty fucking warm when i get out of the below zero walk in
wavebeam@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
When I’m running tho, 50 degrees is a medium amount of hot.
wavebeam@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
32 percent hot is water freezing tho? Idk… 1/3 hot seems like not the right amount for water freezing.
Natanael@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
This one (bath thermometer) goes to 111°F
Dogyote@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
You clown, hot has been defined as 100°F since 1724. Therefore 50°F = 50% hot.
LordPassionFruit@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
50°F is when I might start wearing pants instead if shorts. I will still be wearing a t-shirt, and won’t bring a jacket until at least 40°F.
70°F is the hottest it can be outside before I become uncomfortably warm.
When I get in a hot tub that is at 100°F, I will turn it down to at least 95°F and know that I won’t be able to stay much longer.
This is the other problem with Fahrenheit, there is no universal “100% hot”. While Celsius doesn’t have the granularity and is subject to “just ask water how it feels” criticism, at least “what temperature is water” is a consistent way to explain it as opposed to saying “at 100°, you’ll be hot”
rageagainstmachines@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Every day I learn that people are even dumber than I previously thought.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
My eye is twitching just reading this. I wonder how I survived 110 percent hot days.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Probably the same way people survived the -110% hot days.
rageagainstmachines@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s because the government controls the weather!!
jj4211@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I suppose the takeaway is once the weather is 100 or higher, I don’t care it’s just too damn hot.
After being in 115 degree heat, 100 degree heat still feels just terrible.
Similarly below zero, subjectively I didn’t need specifics anymore. I know that salting ice outside is probably not going to work anymore. Yes it does make a difference, but comfort wise I just hate it either way.
So I can see, mostly joking but a grain of truth that you have “stupidly cold” then 0 to 100 scale of usual air temperature then “too damn hot”.
It’s like the only way the farenheight scale is kind of appealing from a “humans like 0 to 100 scale”, but it’s mathematically painful and nonsense apart from comfortable human temperatures.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
See you tomorrow champ
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It is kind of nice waking up, having a bad day or something, but then I’m reminded "At least I’m not that fucking stupid.
CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I worked retail for a decade. There is no bottom to the barrel. There are people driving around in cars who genuinely shouldn’t be left unsupervised with metal utensils.
rageagainstmachines@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If they can’t handle utensils, they definitely shouldn’t be driving around in 2 ton killing machines.
chetradley@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Celsius is the perfect system to describe how hot or cold it is, assuming you’re a water molecule.
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
People are mostly water, no? Makes perfect sense then.
autriyo@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Most people die from heat way before water starts to boil though. And we also don’t freeze solid at 0°C, although it is pretty cold, I’d say that end fits slightly better.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Got 'em.
lefixxx@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
i tell them i use a 100 hour clock. Day starts at 0 at ends at 100. They see how much better it is and they have an existential crisis. And then everyone clapped
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Technically, 1000 beats per day - but yes, Swatch tried this back in ‚99:
MintyFresh@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Fuuuuck. That’s the coolest thing I’m in. On on .beat time now!
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Thanks, I hate that I love it
Strider@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I loved it for removing the messy timezones.
I learned with that a lot of other problems are created, hehe.
balsoft@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Honestly it’s not the worst idea, the french have tried something like that during one of their revolutions.
Semi-relatedly, I’m salty they didn’t push for duodecimal numbers and base metric on that, it would incorporate the only good part of imperial system & 12-based time system, not only into measurements but also all other aspects of life.
Then they could make time consistent too, maybe have like 10000 (20736 in decimal) “metric seconds” in a day (which would mean 1 “metric second” ≈ 4 “normal” seconds) and derive stuff from there (e.g. 100 “metric seconds” in a “metric minute”, 10 “metric minutes” in a “metric hour”, 10 “metric hours” in a “metric day”). Would be really quite neat.
MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Except what is cold/hot varies from person to person.
Water is more consistent.
lauha@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
37 isn’t really hot yet. It’s warm. It’s around 50 degrees when it starts feeling too hot to touch.
Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
37 isn’t really hot yet.
Tell me how you feel when your body heats up just a bit, from 37 to 40. Sweating? Shivering? Hot and cold waves?
As always, it depends on the context and on the individual
farfalla@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
PugJesus@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
At what temperature does a normal body boil
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Boiling isn’t the way to do it, roasting will bring out the flavor much more nicely.
smeenz@lemmy.nz 2 weeks ago
At 100%, obviously
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Is if they say you have room temperature IQ, it’s not so bad unless you are European.
Bgugi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Room temp is 20C. It’s literally iso 1!
aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Celsius is percentage boiling.
realitista@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
I mean, he’s not wrong. Celsius is about how hot water is. As someone who has lived half my life on each continent and uses Celsius for everything, I do still think that Fahrenheit is a better unit to use for weather while Celsius is better for everything else. But using 2 units is dumb so Celsius it is.
RattlerSix@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
KaChilde@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
100% hot by what understanding? If I set my oven to 100F, the peak of heat by this memes reckoning, that roast chicken is going to kill my family.
If I run a warm bath at 50F, the medium-est of heats, My testicles are going to implode faster than a billionaire in a homemade submarine when they touch the water.
If we are talking human comfort, then 50F is also way too cold to be considered “50% hot”.
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Ugh, I’m one of those people who will defend imperial as not being irrational, just built ad-hoc for purposes that aren’t in alignment with modern ones and … No, that’s not what Fahrenheit is.
Fahrenheit was trying to make a temperature scale that was easy to recreate to ease the calibration of thermometers. Zero is a temperature that can be created in your garage with some ice, salt and water. 100 was his best, ultimately inaccurate, attempt to measure human body temperature, since it’s another easy calibration point, and from there water was defined as 32 and 212 so that they were 180 degrees apart, which would fit will on a temperature dial.
Not irrational, not a comfort scale, and not in alignment with current needs.It’s pure coincidence that it kinda lines up with comfortable outdoor temperatures in the opinion of a good chunk of a population living in the northern part of the western hemisphere.
Gobbel2000@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
We need to collectively realize that both Celsius and Fahrenheit are mostly arbitrary and not more than practical conventions to assign numbers to temperatures. Kelvin makes more sense but is impractical for daily use. It’s just US-Americans distracting from the fact that most of their units are objectively bad compared to Metric by pointing out that Celsius is only marginally better.
nathanjent@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
I’m 98.6° Greg. Am I hot?
tino@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Get your ass outside at 0ºC and I guarantee you it’s 0% hot.
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Ummm… doesn’t this description actually fit better with celsius? 0% hot is frozen. 100% hot is boiling. No?
harmbugler@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Is reading this what having a stroke feels like?
stickly@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Hot take: the best temperature scale would have 0º be freezing and 100º be human body temp. Fahrenheit is already supposed to be that but nobody gives a shit about a saline solution freeze point and they fucked up the human body temp.
Brainsploosh@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
ITT: Water requires over double of all the hot just to boil.
TheBat@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Percentage of what motherfucker?
mechoman444@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Just in case because this is the internet at the end of the day. Fahrenheit is not linked to a percentage of anything. It’s mostly arbitrary in terms of assigning a number scale to temperature and it’s linked to brine solutions and human body temperature.
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Ummmm? Well technically you can describe celsius as 0 being 0% boiling and 100 being 100% boiling with water. And it actually works pretty well because the hotter it is, the more it evaporates. Tho pretty sure its not linear and also thats a stupid way of saying it anyways.
Randynippletwist@lemmynsfw.com 2 weeks ago
That fear is them realizing they are trapped talking to a clown who proudly is grinding 100 hours at work every week.
flowers_galore2@lemmynsfw.com 2 weeks ago
My face has more wat than a wat granny wat
umbraroze@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
I’m in Finland. I sometimes say stuff like “oh it’s -30°C today. It’s getting just a little bit nippy.”
A friend of mine in California is like “Jesus Christ what are you talking about” and yes, he can convert that
akfdmfckwrl@feddit.dk 2 weeks ago
In that case, you should change the scale to match how hot/cold it actually gets outside. In many parts of the world, and even in North America, it regularly goes below 0F or above 100F.
“How hot it feels” is highly subjective. I would absolutely melt at 100F but feel fine at 0F, and nothing feels colder than those rainy windy days when it’s 5C outside.
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
and then theres Kelvin, where 0 literally is 0% hot
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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Chrobin@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
I have to be that guy: it’s K, not °K.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
i feel like this was either made by a fahrenheit user, or a nothern canadian. 0°C isn’t “fairly cold”, it’s freezing! 10°C is “fairly cold”.
Klear@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
We need a new scale where 0 is 0K and 100 is the temperature of the big bang.
unmagical@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Another balmy day of approximately 0 degrees out.
Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
May I suggest calling it the Morphius scale?
“The temperature will be 1 °M today” “In the beginning it was 100 degrees Morphius”
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
and doesn’t exist, which is fun