There has also been a huge, prolonged campaign of union busting specifically to weaken their power in these political scenarios
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I mean theres no objectivity to the way we describe the universe anyway
- Our society has arbitrarily landed on a base ten numbering system. This colors how we measure, but it could have just as easily been any other historical numbering system (12/20/4/60...)
- The length of a meter was chosen by the French based on the size of Earth at that time and relative to Paris. That obviously doesn't work if you try to account for earth's gradual shedding of mass or gaining mass via meteors
- The length of a second was defined as a fraction of earth's daily rotation even though the rotation speed is slowing over time
- We have thousands of names for specific frequencies of visible light but don't really bother for the other 99.9965% of the electromagnetic spectrum
- We still use classic binomial nomenclature for naming animals even though the whole system of taxonomic rank has basically been abandoned by biologists because evolution is too messy to classify
We basically just do things the way someone in the distant past decided to do things (though we've gotten better at defining them via natural constants).
The most clear, "rational" way to observe the universe would be with Planck units (ie. describing the universe within the bounds of our current theories of special relativity, quantum mechanics and gravity). But even that could be upended if we were to further develop/prove our physics theories. An alien race might show up and think our system based around discrete Planck lengths is primitive and quaint.
Edit: and no pun intended with heated but it's coincidentally fitting to the conversation 😁
My bad, don't use Kelvin all that often 😂
Just joking around, but setting a scale is just a matter of fixing zero and choosing the size of your degree. So -50º would be halfway to absolute zero and 0º can be any reference point you want.
Lmao no disrespect intended but I hope you take a break for some self care, we're on a meme post and I'm pitching a hypothetical temperature scale that will see zero implementation or adoption ever. I think it's fun to play with and debate but there's no need to get heated about it
☝️😬 Metric-stans when you suggest a theoretical tweak to Centigrade that makes it align closer with human-scale temps while preserving the decimal nature.
My main point is that we spend 90% of our lives wandering around in a fairly narrow range of temperatures. Every day we care about how we should dress or what precipitation to expect or what the high/low might be overnight or checking our apartment thermostat...
The general population only spends a fraction of that time caring about the temperature of anything else (look at a recipe->plug in the baking temp->move on). In a universe where we spent all our time measuring astrological bodies I would probably be arguing for the scale to be normalized around 100ºSol.
I boil water probably 2x per day and I have never once cared about the actual temperature of that reaction. If I dunk my hand in water at 85ºC or 99ºC its gonna hurt like fuck either way. A scale based around horse blood would probably be more tangible because I can actually tell when the mammal blood in my meat-sack body is feeling a few degrees cold/warm.
Stapling a scale solely to pure, scientific, idealized, elemental reactions is silly Enlightenment dogma. Unless we plan on using my theoretical scale for millions of years of human evolution, average body temp is nearly as constant.
I'll agree to a single universal scale but only on the condition that -100º=0ºK
Hell, in my apartment there's a room especially for making it very hot and humid. Even above 100c, and I still don't boil. Weird, huh?
And I bet that room has its own thermostat, fuel, and doesn't reach that temperature without human input. How often is the average human stepping into a sauna that it needs to be considered on a common use scale? The hottest recorded temperature on earth is 56°C, why would our daily scale need to be pegged 78% higher than that?
Endothermic refers to the ability of the organism to regulate it's temperature, not just the ability to generate heat
Exactly! So we have 8.3 billion self-adjusting thermostats set to [nearly] the same target no matter their environment. Unlike the freezing temp, water's boiling point can vary wildly on Earth. If I forget to check the altitude I could mistakenly think my boiling teapot is at 100°C instead of 68°C.
Home cooking usually depends way more on your ingredients and the quirks of your appliances than your target temp. Maybe your kitchen is a little more humid today and this batch of cookies is more chewy than yesterday. That's why many recipes give hints on target texture or look (crispy, soft, golden brown...). But yes if you want a very specific outcome you'll care much more about temp accuracy.
Celsius is great for engineering because Things Happen™️ when water starts boiling or freezing. But most people aren't engineering daily. Cooking temps generally dont require much precision and there are too many niche break points to easily factor: safe meat temps, refrigeration temps, oil smoke points, Maillard reaction, etc... Our chefs are basically screwed no matter what.
That leaves measuring weather as the most universal daily application. Celsius is not great because the temp outside your door is going to be between mid -20º and mid 40º. It's nice to have water freezing at 0º (snow, frost, ice) but thats the only interesting break point. You could just as easily set 100º to be the temperature of the sun and have the same daily experience.
Humans are endothermic, which means being somewhere hotter than us is Not Good™️. That would be very nice to set as a breaking point for weather purposes, but unfortunately the danger varies wildly with humidity/airflow/personal tempature regulation/hydration/etc... If we set the triple digit break to indicate an unsafe body temp then we at least can approximate the danger and get a little bonus medical utility.
Mean body temp varies slightly based on several factors:
So set 100º to be one standard deviation over and its perfect for daily use. Checkmate Celciusts
Hot take: the best temperature scale would have 0º be water freeze point 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.
It already is a whites only event. Do you know how much it costs to get in? Very few POC have that type of disposable income unless they're already in the "one-of-the-good-ones" club.
If anything this is a shakedown of the NFLs undocumented concession workers.
Same logic as a stock market fire sale: crash the price, rich people scoop it up for pennies, rent it back to the people who need it
Except this time it's the entire USA and all of our infrastructure will be rented back in company scrip. "Welcome to the Google toll road powered by OpenAI. Payment is accepted in Alphabet credits, Meta bucks or Apple chits"
Lmfao "200 kg of explosives". I guess those terrorists were planning on toppling the government by distributing the equivalent explosive payload of a large firework to each city.
"We heard voice recordings from abroad giving instructions" Well then I guess you have nothing to worry about because these terrorists are stupid enough to communicate over a clear channel. Wtf is this, WWII? And you still let them massacre your civilians when you have that level of intel? 😂
And a bunch of starlink devices? Seems pretty goddamn benign when you consider the government keeps cutting the internet. Hell I wish they had more of those so we would have a clear answer on what is happening on the ground, don't you???
Give up dude, your precious gender-apartheid government is clearly so strong that they don't need you to white knight for them. Go take your critical support and simp for some other autocratic religious fanatics. 🤡
Me waiting for actual evidence of that: 💀
What kind of a broken ass government wouldn't be aware of enough resources flooding into their country to arm a full scale nation wide revolt. Are you kidding me?? They must be as blind as you 🧑🦯
I do not "denounce their massacre by Khamenei's regime" because it's unclear who is massacring and who is being massacred, and to what scale these massacres are occurring. If innocent civilians are dying it is accidental.
Lol. Lmao even. My favorite tankie argument.
Goverment unilaterally disrupts all outgoing media that would give us any visibility but that paper thin deniability means we can ignore the situation. You think if the regime had hard proof of a force big enough and well equipped enough to slaughter thousands of people they wouldn't be shouting it from the rooftops?
"Well the wife was screaming for help and then the husband closed the curtains and then the woman screamed louder and blood started seeping under the door. No clue what happened. Maybe she was trying to kill him?"
Nothing happened. And if something did happen it was an accident. And if it wasn't an accident then someone else made me do it. And if someone else didn't make me do it then they deserved it anyway.
🤡🤡🤡
I think these polls are interesting but tell us more way more about the media landscape than the people being polled.
For starters, about 3-5% of the population has ASPD or borderline symptoms. About 1/4 of the general population suffers from a mental illness and 35-50% of extreme cases go untreated in high income countries.
So right there we would expect probably ~10% of the population completely disconnected from normal social function. In the USA those numbers are probably a bit inflated because conservatives have consistently gutted any programs that might target those issues and keep people functioning in society.
Of course that's not to say everyone suffering from an untreated mental illness is automatically a fascist. What's interesting is how the GOP (and Heritage Foundation and Koch brothers, et al.) have accomplished is a near total capture of that population.
When was the last time you interacted with someone completely unhinged (*in real life) who wasn't spouting fascist propaganda? Gone are the halcyon days of off-putting, but relatively benign, alien/bigfoot conspiracies. Those vulnerable groups have been co-opted and put into lock-step with fascism via targeted disinformation.
Amplify that skepticism into the mainstream and suddenly you'll have another 10% or more who find its palatable and convenient to accept simple and ugly regressive answers to their problems ("Mad about healthcare? You're smart enough to know that's not a lizard people conspiracy, it's brown people taking your taxes!"). Believe it or not, people can be racists or asshole without automatically licking fascist boots and signing up for ethnic cleansing.
Then take that solid 20% and astroturf a bunch of hateful fascist narratives online and another apathetic chunk will just go along with it ("Well I didn't look too closely but 15 RealAmericanPatriot accounts said it was self defense, they can't all be wrong")
All this to say if you see 80% in a US poll that is universal support from the general population that exists in the same universe as you. If you see more than 80%, then the fascist base actually cracking. From that perspective these polls are mostly rage bait because you won't see a change in polling until the change is really obvious in real life.
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Inaccurate, man pushing swing should be labeled pedophile
Nothing challenged my perspective here. I know people suffering and dying from this stuff, I have friends who work with addicts daily. I'm here to advocate for the people in my community who are suffering more than any of the people in these videos (or any of us commenting here) through no fault of their own. Their lives are being ruined by the same fascists pushing this war-hawk imperialist shit.
We have stop this jingoistic-tribalist-slop. Would you like to see a funny trend where people laugh about being mutilated Palestinians for a 5 second joke on Isreal?
If you can hear me in your fever dream, please wake up
Median income doesn't mean shit when median wealth is barely keeping up with the low end of developed countries. Median US wealth is closer to Estonia or Kuwait than Canada or the UK.
"Stupid shit people make up online". My brother in christ your own source shows less than 25% gun ownership. That lines up exactly with what I'm saying. What are you smoking?
Because most places in the USA have atrocious worker protection laws. Even if you're in a name brand, corporate job with thousands of people on board with unionizing, they can close your office or fire everyone with no repercussions.
Just look at Blizzard, Google, Starbucks, etc... They take a chainsaw to any union talk and have never been bothered with consequences. If you're employed by a tiny, family owned business you have even less leverage. Your personal relationship to the owner is much more important to achieving your goals than paperwork solidarity with the 2 other employees.