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  • C126@sh.itjust.workstoScience Memes@mander.xyzBurning Up
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    8 days ago

    That was a long way of saying what I said, you just don’t see faranheit as ludicrously out of date, while I (and most of the world) do. Live your life as you wish friend. It’s a random brine mixture. Maybe it was less random back then, but now it’s an arbitrary mixture of water and salts in arbitrary ratios. Deal with it. Fahrenheit sucks.


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    8 days ago

    Technically all arbitrary, but Fahrenheit is definitely on a whole different level of arbitrary.

    Celsius - 0 = precise freezing point of water and 100 = precise boiling point

    Kelvin - same as C, but shifted so 0 is the precise lowest possible temperature

    Fahrenheit - 0 is the imprecise freezing point of some random brine mixture, 100 is the imprecise average body temperature of the developer




  • I think it’s more due “corporatism”, where government and certain privileged large corporations work together to enrich themselves at the sake of others. Technically not really capitalism, which is just a system of trade which uses capital rather than barter to facilitate trade. It’s important to be clear on these things if we want to fix problems.