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• shortrounddev@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If you were in a car you wouldn’t be hot. 103 is very hot, not safe for old people to be outside for very long

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  • Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    “103 degrees” means that it’s hot enough for water to boil. Water boils at 100 degrees, unless you’re deep underground.

    But okay, it sounds like that’s a very rare temperature, then?

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    • MrShankles@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      There are two types of people in the world:

      — Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data sets

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    • shortrounddev@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      bro you know what units I’m using, don’t be obtuse

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    • Armageddon@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      are you this dense on purpose?

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      • Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Heh.

        It’s impolite to use only Fahrenheits on an international forum. Most readers won’t be able to make heads or tails of “103 degrees”, so a person posting on an international forum should definitely bother checking what that’s in Celcius. It’s much less work for the person writing the text to check that than thousand individual readers checking the same thing on Google.

        If it’s somehow “okay” to ignore the 95 % of the world that has no idea of Fahrenheit, then it is similarly okay to be as if Fahrenheit didn’t exist.

        I simply let the impolite person taste his own medicine. And no, I still don’t know if “103 degrees” equals 30°C, 45°C or 55°C. But the description “very uncomfortably hot” is absolutely enough to get what the person was talking about. So, some temperature that is unusual where the person writing the comment lives.

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    • candybrie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s about 40° C

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      • HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yeah, at that temp, just standing outside will make you sweat.

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