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• Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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  • Armageddon@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    are you this dense on purpose?

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    • Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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      • krussfarn@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It’s a post blasting the US. I think it would be safe to assume responses to the contrary would be people in the US. Also, common sense and minimal thought would be enough to figure out the units given the number.

        Maybe as an engineer I should require everyone to only give me temps in Kelvin…

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      • doingthestuff@lemy.lol ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        When people give a temp in C, I convert it to F like anyone capable of reading/writing should be able to do. I’ve lived in Europe but I haven’t internalized the conversion very well. I would think someone might be able to convert it the other way as well. It is okay to just say, “I don’t like the US and I want to be an asshole.” You know, if that’s the case. None of us have any idea, your motives are completely obscured from our discernment.

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  • candybrie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It’s about 40° C

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    • HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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      • Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Not my experience. I spent some 4 months at Goa in India, and it was usually around 40°C. I rented a bicycle there and rode it for distances of over 100 km in a day. And I did not sweat.

        That temperature should not be a problem for a person living in an area where that’s a common temperature. And if it’s not a common temperature, then it’s not common, and it’s not really a problem to have to pay the taxi if you need to go to an important meeting precisely on the one scorching hot day :)

        I was assuming from the context that it would translate to more like 50°C or so.

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