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  • the mods of the major subreddits (who are the same people a lot of the time) are suppressing anything that calls this out. especially because of midterms, as the other commenter pointed out. that's why reddit is so insufferable.

  • how bout dat prick's face when he saw da gyatt

  • because it's convenient to be able to express the difference between just below freezing and abnormally cold. it's the difference between wearing a sweater and a long sleeve shirt and wearing a jacket and scarf. or just not going outside.

  • in one way or another, i'm 80% sure this is an eglin air force base moment

  • of course, libertarianism (speaking here only of the neoliberal kind, not the fascist kind) is deeply rooted in individualism. they won't stand for anything because they don't believe in that sort of thing. at best they believe society will collapse and they'll need guns to protect themselves as individuals like dirty harry. i was just speaking ideologically. ideologically they're opposed to the most openly fascist police killings. obviously as a movement their individualism renders them dead on arrival

  • BOOM 💪 BOOM 💪 BOOM 💪

  • there are a few of those people but the issue is they don't go online or do anything

  • it's an advantage of having "below zero" actually tell you something, and to tell you something different from "below freezing". it's useful shorthand for "it's fucking freezing out"

  • i'm him irl

  • seeing the piefed user be like "is that like a tankie" really fills me with hope. they're finally learning a new word 🤗

  • you don't even need to go that far. there's so many dems who say "ice's mission is great, it's just the decorum bro they need the decorum bro"

  • i hate calling them the "kick the can down the road party" because they're still doing most of that shit. they're just doing it to people who aren't white enough for the libs to care

  • i love to dunk on "rhodesia"

  • from what i have heard, anti-nato

  • what could be more simple than putting the freezing point of water at 32 degrees?

  • to be fairrrrrrrrrrr, us units are all defined through metric units. so same

  • to paraphrase several europans i've heard, fahrenheit for daily use, rankine for science.

  • it's not just the granularity. in the modern day weather systems convert from celsius anyway, so you will never see a temperature of 69 (unfortunately). it's about how many numbers relating to humanity happen to fit in between 0 and 100°. if i were designing a system of measurement from scratch i would set whatever baseline body temperature is at 100. call it the "go nude in the shade" temperature. the temperature at which the average person is at complete equilibrium with the room. for zero it would have to be something really cold so that "below zero" actually means something. the actual number is debatable but it definitely isn't the point at which water freezes. fahrenheit isn't perfect but it almost matches those those constraints and so, while certain climates might regularly fall outside the 0-99° range, i think most people in the world would agree that their definition of "temperate" falls in there, and outside that range is uncomfortable. also as a bonus the difference between freezing and boiling is 180°F, which is half 360°, which is a nice number.