[-] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

I don't think you understand the difference between sustenance and worship.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Of course, generations of humans cooked without thermometers or thermostats. You could cook with the Rankine scale if you get used to it .

But let me just say, I don't think it's an accident France is both the originator of the Metric system and haute cuisine.

Advanced cooking is as much engineering as it is art.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

As a metric person, I can confirm.

Indoor temperatures are basically 18-22 for most people most of the time.

15-25 covers the whole range of indoor temperatures that people with functioning heat or A/C would see.

For temperatures outside we commonly round to the nearest five:*

  • -5 and below: very cold winter weather
  • 0 cold winter weather
  • 5 mild winter weather
  • 10 autumn weather
  • 15 spring weather
  • 20 summer weather
  • 25 beach weather
  • 30 heatwave
  • 35 and higher heatwave in the Sahara

The only thing I admire of the Fahrenheit scale is that it can round to the nearest 10 and still be a little bit more precise than Celsius with the nearest 5. And when discussing fever temperatures, Celsius needs half degrees and Fahrenheit does not.

But it's an absolutely awful scale for cooking.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago

Conservatives have a deep need to feel superior to others.

The cruelty is the point.

If poor people have happy and fulfilling lives, then they can't feel better than them.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Indeed.

And the same is true for electric transportation.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Rays against the abolition of time

[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

When it comes to the polls, they just are what they are.

They are biased, unreliable and sometimes manipulated.

But it's election season and we need the polls to get insight in what people are thinking.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Indeed.

We can easily solve climate change if we are willing to spend a tenth on it compared to what we spend on defense.

[-] [email protected] 104 points 4 months ago

If we are going to shed tears for the loss of culture, then the loss of Roman era bath houses and early Christian churches in Gaza is quite a bit more concerning to me than this painting.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The difference is that this "may end", while Ukraine and Gaza are killing lots of innocents.

Also, we have the technological means to stop this one if we really want to. We just don't want to.

Aerosol spraying for $1B a year can buy time.

Spending $100B a year for a decade on nuclear power plants built to Chinese/Korean safety standards in addition to current spending on solar, wind and electrification can stop our emissions in two decades.

Which is why it is good that this author is writing this article. We must fight apathy against climate change.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago

Indeed, sounds like a legitimate win to me.

It's basically a FOSS Chromebook.

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