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  • My point is "really hot" and "really cold" are not useful reference points to ascribe to, no matter what numbers you're using. If i was coming up with a measurement system for brightness and i said 1000 was "really bright" would you be able to tell me anything about 500? No because you literally have no reference frame for what i mean by "really bright". It's the same thing when Americans describe Fahrenheit to the rest of the world. You have to experience the data points, and at that point, whether you use 0 to 100, -20 to 40, or 250 to 310, it doesn't matter. You will just intuitively understand the scale and so there's no inherent benefit.

  • "Oh but 100 Fahrenheit means 100/100 on the hot scale, it just makes intuitive sense!"

    WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN?? Fahrenheit lovers literally don't know how ridiculous they sound

  • Worth noting that solar panels are not without toxic waste. If left in landfills they risk leaching lead, cadmium and other toxic chemicals. The issue of recycling them at scale is not being seriously tackled.

  • The vast majority of nuclear waste isn't fuel, it's cladding, equipment, etc. With that said, nuclear waste is literally a solved problem and the fact that people are still droning on about it shows how powerful fossil fuel propaganda is.

  • Would that not have happened in the UK too? I mean i guess depending on how recent, cause i know the NHS is being gutted.

    But like, I'm Canadian, and my brother had brain surgery to remove a cancerous tumour. I would not have been born if my parents got saddled with millions in debt from that. They're certainly not wealthy enough to have private insurance - although tbf that's not a normal thing here compared to the states because the government provides everyone with free insurance with tax money. But even if it was so normalized, my parents would not have had private insurance.

    Whatever, point is I think having your life financially ruined by getting cancer is an America thing (and many poor countries unfortunately)

  • Apple is kinda a mixed bag in this regard. Sometimes the extra premium you paid is worth it because it lasts ten years, sometimes it breaks in six months because a single pin got bent in some critical internal connector. And sometimes they intentionally slow down old iPhones.

  • But wait, the sun moves around in its orbit around the galaxy. How can the sun be straddling the line at all times? You can't even solve that by saying the division is exactly in the same plane as the sun's orbit because it varies up and down due to differences in the galactic make-up. Does the dividing line just move with the sun like some sort of sol-centric division?

  • Not arguing for either unit here - use what you're comfortable with and don't be smug about it - but Americans are ~4-5% of the world and even if not all Americans use Fahrenheit, people in other countries (e.g. mine) still do.

  • The solution is not more fuel efficient or fuel alternative cars, it's the replacement of cars entirely (where reasonable). But you can't shock that, because it requires infrastructure which literally doesn't exist in much of North America, and is severely lacking in the rest of it.

  • Great Britain does not include Northern Ireland. This raises the question, "what is the difference between Great Britain and Britain?"

    The distinction, when it is made, is that Great Britain is the entity encompassing the three nations on the island of Britain. Sometimes the distinction is not made, and in that case Great Britain is used for both.

  • And if you work at a company and the leadership becomes burdened with other life events? They delegate management to someone whose job it is to keep things running smoothly.

    Co-ops can work that way too lol, there's a co-op in Spain with 75,000 employees.

    TL;DR people forget that like 90% of businesses fail, of fucking course co-ops are no different