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Thinking there's such a thing as "non-political"
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I took the most diarrhoeal of diarrhoeal shits this morning. I'd like to see you make this political.
Easy! Why do you think it happened? Inadequate food regulation? Underfunded healthcare? Insufficient regulation of pollutants that can impact health and cause chronic disease?
I don't know your individual circumstances, but given the state of the world right now, I'd bet it's a combination of all three.
That all small business owners are thieves and out to scam their customers - This was part of someone's argument defending big box stores.
I mean I kind of assume all business owners are, though small business owners don't have that shit baked in like megacorps.
I got called a fascist a couple weeks ago because I suggested that a generative AI model shouldn't need to do tons of extra math to perform math since it's already literally a computer.
Homeopathy... Oh boy, my mom believes in it. As well as crystals with special powers.
I fucking hate this.
Especially when they basically self-hypnosis themselves into the placebo affect and swear that their magic powdered crystal enema can fix everything.
There are some rocks with special powers. Like uranium, Plutonium, etc.
Yes, but those are dirty, brutish science rocks. Not special coloured crystals with the powers of emotional healing™, protection against negative auras™ or unseen life™, and the power to give a room or a house a positive atmosphere™.
You know, the kind that those doctors (who totally know nothing at all!) don't want you to know about because it'll put them out of business.
Replace them with colored glass for a week and see if anything happens. Then you can publish your results in Crystals Weekly if they work, or one of the science ones if they don't.
Don't forget "promoting wellness".
I appreciate that we're past the days when they could make specific claims and get away with it, though.
I use very nice quartz in my daily life, and if they would have cracks or so my day would definitely be ruined
"Fahrenheit describes the level of comfort for a human. From coldest to warmest that you may experience outside."
0 is freezing. Can't really get much easier than that.
It needs some adjustment. 0 is fine, but 68 should be the new 100. We shouldn't have to exist in climates warmer than that.
As an American I used to use a variation of this phrase.
Then I decided to experimentally switch to using Celsius. Took a few weeks/months to really internalize it and stop having to do on-the-fly conversions, but honestly I love it.
It’s remarkable how useful having 0 be freezing is for weather. It makes understanding sub-freezing temperatures much easier. Which also helps reinforce what a degree Celsius means.
I wish other Americans would try it. I haven’t gone back, all my devices are still on Celsius over five years later.
Make way for empirical chad.
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Yep, there's definitely nowhere it goes below 0 F. /s
Actually, the Persian Gulf gets above 100 regularly as well, if I have what that is in Celsius roughly correct.
Europeans shaking and crying at the realization that the difference between 70° and 75° is more obvious and meaningful than 21.11° and 23.88°
Americans shaking that 20-25C is more obvious than 68-77
Above 30 you just complain 25-30 you wear shorts 20-25 you wear whatever 15-20 you wear a t shirt and jeans 10-15 you consider a light jacket or a long sleeve 5-10 you firmly wear the light jacket or long sleeve 0-5 you bring a heavier coat Below 0 you complain
Beautiful 5 degree increments that perfectly describe what to wear in C Where with Fahrenheit you end up with weird numbers like 86 degrees
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I'm on here enough they all blur together. Maybe that makes me the idiot.
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