Ice too. Glaciers are flowing.

I know, but they belong to VW and at least back then used Audi engines (which also belongs to VW)

Older German cars also are great. My Skoda from ~2000 is still going strong (never had any issues) and I also see a lot of other older VW/Skoda around (also Audi, Mercedes and BMW but those are more expensive). Don’t know what it’s like today but at that time at least Skodas got the exact same engines as Audis, just not as beautiful bodies.

Can’t comment on modern German cars, they haven’t passed the test of time yet.

Consider a motorcycle instead of a backup car ;)

That social pressure sure does a lot in the USA. In Austria for example iOS sits at 17.8% (July 2024) despite being a rich country.

Since none of Apple’s native services are being used the only upside of Apple products is their out-of-the-box neatless communication (MacBook-iPhone) and not being able to do much (this is an upside for old people who want to have as little options as possible, like they did on their old flip telephones). Accordingly, iPhones are very popular among people who only ever use their phones for photos and communication, which is a small percentage (as the statistic shows).

Most people simply care for what their phone can do (screen, camera, battery life, speed, customisability, software availability, bang-for-buck), for the camera it’s a tie (iPhones still win for videos, Android flagships win for photos) and in all other points Android wins, leading to its 70% market share.

Source for market share by OS: https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/303829/umfrage/genutzte-mobile-betriebssysteme-in-oesterreich/

I love it when it’s -10% hot in winter nights or 110% hot around the equator. Makes perfect sense.

Yes, it doesn’t matter which example you take, Fahrenheit never makes sense imo.

0°F is the coldest night Mister Fahrenheit has ever witnessed, thinking it couldn’t become any colder than this.

100°F is Mister Fahrenheit’s slightly feverish body temperature.

???

PS: Pretty much all other countries also had their own measurement systems and simply switched to metric because it made sense. I’m glad we did, and that pretty much all others did too.

PPS: I’d also be up for revamping time measurement, why can’t we have 10h a day, 100 minutes per hour, 100 seconds per minute? 100.000 seconds in total per day, currently we have 86.400 so a second would only become slightly shorter.

The French tried to implement that in the First Republic, together with 12 months à 30 days per year, 3 weeks à 10 days per month and 5 (6) extra days at the end of the year to make it work (from Christmas to New Year, how thematic!)

It failed because the French were fearing they’d have to work more (if they’d also only have 2 days off per 10d instead of per 7d). One of the biggest tragedies in French history. Without the week reform the time reform might’ve succeeded.

Fully agree with you. How does that make sense:

Really hot summer days (30°C) are 86°F

Usual summer days (25°C) are 77°F

Room temperature is ~70°F

Spring / autumn days (20°C) are 68°F

Chilly outside / late autumn / early spring days (~10°C) are 50°F

Cool outside / warm winter days (~0°C) are 32°F

Cold outside / usual winter days (-10°C) are ~15°F

Winter nights (bit below -20°C) are ~ -10°F

Fahrenheit users keep saying how strange it is to have negative temperatures when using °C, but it’s just the same in Fahrenheit except the whole scale makes less sense since it’s using fully arbitrary, not recreatable points for 0 and 100.

Kelvin is the SI unit. Anyway also for the weather Celsius is clearer: Below 0 = snow, above 0 = rain. And Celsius at least has fixed points that can be recreated - if all thermometers and data on scales were lost we could easily recreate °C, but not °F.

Context?

We have oil for that

I really don’t get why the USA does this.

In developing countries it’s understandable that the state can’t pay for education, but in a first world country (at least in the cold war era meaning) it’s insane that education is FOR PROFIT.

In Europe the countries don’t pay for education out of pure idealism. Educating a large percentage of the population is needed for a functioning and stable democracy (that hopefully doesn’t fall for populism, although we’re currently fighting with that too, still far better than the USA’s Trump cult) and especially needed for staying internationally competitive in the long term.

Just a few days ago I’ve paid my fee for this semester, studying at a well known university (not worldwide but at least in my country and neighbouring countries) with a good reputation: 24.70€ (27.3$). I could also pay the same at an internationally more known uni but they’re pretty similar quality-wise, the other just is in a bigger city = has more students = publishes more.

For international students from non-eu-countries it’s ~750€ per semester, still not that much.

Notably, this doesn’t work with dogs, as they have no souls.

Which kind of motion detectors? The ones I know work on everything that’s moving, including my cats (don’t have dogs) or even just throwing something past it

The rules are the same. Add 3 to 5 and you’ll always have 8. Geometric calculations can’t change how they work either. Etc.

Universal. How else would you calculate or solve equations?

They are expected to have between 25 and 30 percent*

And usually prognosises tend to value them higher than they end up, so I guess we can expect them to get around 25%. Plenty of space for other parties to form a coalition.

For the USA, yes, but there are other countries too where democracy still kinda works

German quality

Did you know that there is not a single city, with a population over a million, where the sea level sits more than ten metres above the median ground level of the city.

Am I misunderstanding or are you saying that there’s no big city >10m below sea level?

(Sea level more than ten metres above city level)