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Yeah, they can weigh up to 2000lbs with a king-size bed. A king-size bed is 6,080 sq in.

A fridge can weigh 300lb being 36"×30". 1,152 sq in.

Fridge is .26 pounds per sq inch. A water bed is .33 pounds per sq inch.

So while heavy the weight is distributed basically like a fridge. This is assuming an empty fridge.

As for durability, a quality waterbed mattress is thick. You aren't going to pop it or cut it without deliberately trying to.

Even if you took a knife and stabbed it from the top, it's not going to leak until you put weight on it.

50°F is the point where you need clothes to survive. If you sat naked in a 50°F room you run the risk of your body not being able to generate enough heat and you'll slowly die.

~75°F is room temperature. It's in the middle on the warm side.

70°F is a cool room, 80°F is a warm room.

Whenever I think of Celsius I see it as 0° to 40° with 20° being room temperature. I hear 30°C and think halfway between 70 and 100 so I know it's around 85°F and I know how 85°F feels.

But like 35°C. That's 3/4 of the way from 20°C to 40°F. 100°F-70°F is 30°. 3/4 of 30 is 22.5. So 35° must be close to 70°+22.5° or ~93°F. I know how 93°F feels.

I can see how celcius is easier if you learned it as a child. 35°C would just be 35°C. But trying to quickly wrap your head around it is difficult unless you just know it. I'm sure if I said 93°F you could tell me that that is pretty hot.

You never deal with 0°C/32°F or 100°C/212°F unless you're in a science lab.

They are nice numbers in celcius, but for real-world applications, it's almost meaningless.

When I boil water on the stove, I don't check if it hits 100°C. When I freeze water in the freezer, I don't check if it hits 0°C.

Everyone can get by without knowing the exact degrees.

This is pure water at standard pressure. Higher or lower altitudes will change it, and if your water has minerals or impurities in it, it will also change it. It's pretty arbitrary.

Water on roads can freeze before it hits 0°C outside. It can even snow above 0°C.

Fahrenheit is a very simple scale other than those two things. <0° extremely cold, >100° extremely hot for air temperature. Freezers are 0°F and Saunas are 200°F. Hot tubs are 100°F. You bake cookies at 325° to 375°, pizza is cooked at 600° to 800°F. You'll find a lot of 25° increments in cooking.

Fahrenheit isn't really a part of the US customary units.

Knowing both Fahrenheit and Celsius, I do think Fahrenheit is simpler for real-world applications. For science they are just numbers on a scale. Converting is the only real problem.

1 centiyard is about equal to 1 centimeter

1 miliyard is 3 milifeet

1 kiloyard is 3 kilofeet

It would be the same as the metic system having something like a "hand"

That if you wanted to express 1/3 of a meter you could just call it 1 hand. 2/3 meter would be 2 hands.

If you were using this metric system and knew that something had to be two hands long. You'd simply call it 2 hands instead of .66 meters or 66 centimeters.

If something had to be 2.5 hands long it would be .825 meters or 82.5 centimeters

Meter and yard are both random established lengths. Using miliyards or millimeters is exactly the same.

US customary units just have smaller unit names you can call them if it is convenient. If you never wanted to use anything but yards like the metric system does meters, it's possible. Don't want to use miles? Then megayards.

I do think 1 simple system that everyone uses is needed and the metric system is simple.

But if stupid Americans can use the "difficult" system, it can't be too hard.

That's a misconception for water beds.

High-quality water beds have stabilizer pads in the mattress

The idea of the old crappy 70's water bed where they slosh around is a poor idea.

You aren't laying on a ziploc bag barely filled with any water.

It's more like a ziploc bag filled with molasses. If I pushed a corner down it would slowly bring up everywhere else. If I stopped pushing a corner it everything would slowly go back down.

Say I have a massive gut and sleeping on my right side. I'm displacing X amount of water. If I was to turn to my left side I am still displacing the same amount of water. Just the empty space that use to hold my gut would be filled with the water from the other side where my gut is now. Someone on other side of bed wouldn't even feel it because the water underneath them doesn't change.

This is why water beds are amazing

Winter you put memory foam to keep you from the cold water, in summer you sleep on the cold water.

Only downsides to a water bed are: 1. Heavy 2. You have to add chemicals to your mattress as regular maintenance 3. It can't really be extra firm (but a lot more firm than people think)

The water will steal every bit of heat from your body, but you'll stay warm with a blanket

Not everyone wants to binge a show from start to finish

For example, I really enjoyed the episodes of the office that I have watched. It was many years ago and it was only random episodes I caught while airing on TV.

Went to Netflix to watch at started on episode 1. From what I hear season 1 isn't the greatest. I got through a couple episodes and then thought to myself, this is going to take so many nights of watching to watch them all in order. Never watched another again.

Now if I could turn on the television and say S6EP7 was playing I'd probably enjoy watching it. Might even watch the next episode too.

With classic TV you also get the feeling that you're watching the show with others.

Channel 1 is having a Harry Potter bingeathon. I catch it on episode 3 and continue to watch it. I've seen them all multiple times so I don't really care where I start. But it's nice knowing others are having a HP bingeathon with me on a Saturday afternoon. If I was sitting there with my plex server, I could play any HP. But I'm never going to put it on and if I did it would just be me watching the show.

So you're okay with sending someone to a work camp if "they probably did it, more than likely"? Because at least it's reversible...

So what if they have to spend 10 years breaking rocks in the sun. Oopsie daisies

That's why death penalty shouldn't exist for crimes like a wife killing a husband. You might be 99.9% sure she poisoned him, but you cannot know for sure.

However, a school shooter caught red handed shooting a school?

Some crimes and scenarios can warrant the death penalty in my mind

Next argument is "what if the government framed people to execute them?"

Why in the world would the government point out that they are executing someone?

If the government (the rich controlled government) wants you dead they would do it quietly.

Even something as simple as cutting your brake lines. You really think local police are going to figure out that the government had soldier 65478 tamper with your brake lines?

Sending someone to a work camp is more humane than taking their life?

Only doesn't change anything.

You can only buy 3 items when it says "only 3 items available"

Now if no one buys the only 3 items and Amazon gets 3 more in stock. They only have 6 items to sell. You can only buy 6 items at that time.

Doesn't even water filter it. 9/10

Good take

I wouldn't even be against sharing some information so they could give me better ads

I'm not in the market for a new car. I don't need car ads.

But knowing I shop at Something Hardware a lot and they are having a spring black friday sale on the tool I've been eyeing would be nice.

Even still Something Hardware just slapping their logo in an ad is not helpful at all.

If ads were helpful they wouldn't be annoying

Let's say an 18 year old moves out and starts renting

The average rent in US is 1.5k

30 years of payment is 540k

When that person is 48, they would have paid 540k in rent expenses

This is assuming that rent doesn't increase

Throwing 600k out the window before you're even 50 is not a recipe for success

76 is US average life expectancy. That's ~25 more years of rent.

If they retire at 63. 13 years of 1.5k a month rent is 234k. They need a quarter million in retirement funds just for rent to live up until 76.

45 years of working for that 18 year old would need to make ~750k.

That's 16.5k a year just to pay for rent

Again this is assuming rent never goes up.

That's 8 dollars an hour 40 hours a week every week.

10% more than minimum wage, just for rent.

It's crazy

And this assumes you die and don't have to rent after the age of 76

People not wanting to buy and hold the stock lowers the price.

If everyone wants to short it and no one wants to buy it, then the price will go down.

Not really going down because of the short but lack of demand

Also only temporary because people shorting the stock will eventually have to buy the stock back.

Shorting a stock does not lower the stock price.

your freezer at -18 °C (0 °F) or lower. This will keep your food out of the temperature danger zone between 4 °C (40 °F) to 60 °C (140 °F) where bacteria can grow quickly.

According to Canada.ca

Every 2 F is basically 1 C. You have more whole numbers with F.

Like -15°C is 5°F

6°F is -14.4444°C

-14°C is 6.8°F

So 5, 6, and 7°F are about equal to -15, -14.5, and -14°C.

And it's not just a random number. You know how much more energy would be used if everyone kept their freezer just a couple degrees colder? It's the optimum recommended temperature.

USA uses US Customary units, not Imperial units.

Fahrenheit is grouped with US Customary units but is not one.

I agree metric system is superior and there isn't a reason to use Inches, Feet, Yards, etc.

But Fahrenheit is a great system for weather and works great for everything else.

For science if I have to heat a beaker to 280° it doesn't matter if it's C or F. I'm not going to be able to relate to 280° in either system. The instrument is going to have to tell me the exact measurement.

Same with like a tape measure. I can measure out 3 meters. I don't need to know how long 3 meters is to do that.

However, mark two lines on a piece of paper and I will get closer guessing in inches than cm because I know the US customary units better.

Eventually US will change to metric. But I doubt we will ever not use Fahrenheit for normal day things like weather

When do you use 0° and 100°C?

This is also at standard pressure and most do not live at sea level.

I don't put a thermometer in my water to make sure it is boiling or one in my water to make sure it freezes.

It can snow and roads can ice before it hits 0°C

It has no real world applications

90-110 is hand washing temp. 100 average.

110 is hot

120 recommend max

130 very hot

140 very very hot

150 burns

If I said to you. Would you stick your hand in 50°C water for 100 dollars would you do it?

What about 60°C?

65°C?

I bet you don't know what would happen if you stuck your hand in 65°C water without looking it up. There's a huge jump from 60° to 65°C. 70°C will instantly scald you.

Someone out there is stupid enough to think. Water boils at 100°C, 65 should be perfectly fine. Even though water doesn't boil until 212°, most people would be cautious of sticking their hand in 100°F+ water.

Yes if you think 40°C+ is hot then you can gather that 65°C would be hotter. But why compare to 40° when you can do 100°.