• @[email protected]
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    81 year ago

    I mean, we know what ice and fire mean. And believe it or not, we know where both Canada and Australia are.

  • @[email protected]
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    311 year ago

    I mean, Americans know 0C is the freezing temperature of water and 100C is the boiling temperature of water, so even with that most basic information taught in like, First Grade Science, people can understand the meme.

    People wearing shorts in the cold vs people wearing jackets in the heat.

    • dohpaz42
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      231 year ago

      You overestimate the public education system in my state; especially when I was in grade school.

      (I thought it was 100°F boiling and 0°F was freezing)

      • Aradina [They/Them]
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        41 year ago

        That’d make sense! But instead, Fahrenheit is based around the body temperature of a pig.

        • dohpaz42
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          31 year ago

          I’m curious where you heard that? Obviously a statement like that made me want to know more, but I’m not finding any information about it.

      • @[email protected]
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        71 year ago

        I learned it in First Grade and nearly everyone I have talked to did as well, and I am in California which is rated as the #40 best state for public education, which puts me technically near the bottom. So unless someone happens to come from a state that is lower than California (10 states in descending order where last is worst: TN, FL, NC, OK, SC, AL, NM, NV, LA, or AZ), then chances are very tiny that they were not taught that basic fact in grade school, which was then repeatedly used in every science class afterwards.

        American Public Education Rankings by State

  • @[email protected]
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    I just wear shorts in whatever wether I haven’t worn a pair of pants in almost 2 years if you exclude my uniform for a thing that I don’t know to tell you

  • @[email protected]
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    I don’t think anyone knows what a C° is

    Most every kid who has taken high school science should know what °C is, though

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      This. I wear a t-shirt and shorts after winter when it’s 10°C but I wear a jacket after summer when it’s 20°C.

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    451 year ago

    Cº is the final boss of the C family of programming languages, once you’ve sharpened your senses to an objective double plus level of holy, minus any rust, you can finally get the degree.

  • 21Cabbage
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    And for that matter both of those things happen in this same country. Should’ve seen the looks I’d get from southerners when I was operating a ski lift in a T-shirt.

    Edit: celebrating the first snow by jumping in a lake has also gotten colorful reactions from outsiders.

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      It’s not long pants season until it hits 0C for some folks in New England. Ain’t nobody wearing a jacket up to 30C though. The humidity kills up here, that would just be murder. It can get up to 40C, but we’re generally all miserable then.

      And yeah, I had to convert the temps online to make sure I knew what I was talking about. Well, minus 0C, I know that one.

      • 21Cabbage
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        21 year ago

        I’m in a ski town in Colorado so you get the full mix here, but yeah by March it’s t-shirt weather for the locals, tourists still show up dressed for an arctic expedition but whatever. Hell, isn’t even the funniest thing that comes up, the resort does a costume week every spring so I did formal day in a dress shirt and tie on a fixie, which is a pretty physically intensive job. Favorite remark was a regular in the back of the line yelling “[name expunged] are you fucking bumping chairs in a tie?”

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        Water freezes at zero, so 10C is cold but only kinda cold.

        Humn body temperature is 37C so 30C is got but only kinda hot.

      • @[email protected]
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        +20 to +25 is the perfect temperature Below is cold, above is hot

        At 0, snow and ice form, so +10 is in the middle between your regular room temperature and freezing (i.e. jacket weather)

        +30 is the kind of weather when you better be naked or wearing lightest of clothes or you’re gonna get baked over time. Not deadly by any means, but highly uncomfortable.

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          I take it in tens.

          -20° to -10° is full parka weather. Your breath freezes on your clothes and moisture in the air dries up.

          -10° to 0° is winter coat and scarf weather. Damp cold. Snow and ice but you don’t feel like your eyeballs are freezing.

          0° to 10° Jacket weather. Early spring temps. Pretty mild in either direction.

          10° - 20° Hoodie and t-shirt to taste. Basically the comfortable human range for most.

          20°- 30° T-shirt time. Anything above 25 is solidly in swimming weather territory.

          30°- 40° Time to seek some shade. Heatstroke and heat exhaustion are variable in this range the low end is a health risk for seniors the high end is a risk for even the hardcore heat lovers in their prime.

  • @[email protected]
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    31 year ago

    George RR Martin: “I should pretend that there’s a song about this and name an extremely sporadic book series after it”