A guide for our friends outside the U.S.

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• passepartout@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fahrenheit 451

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• Codpiece@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is that not -90f?

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  • TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nah if 0° is upright 90° rotates that counterclockwise. Blame trig.

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  • TootSweet@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Back when I took trigonometry, they taught me positive was counterclockwise.

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    • Codpiece@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I will blame trigonometry, because orienteering says it’s the other way around.

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    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Another American thing maybe? Always been clockwise for me

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• KiwiTB@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I will never need this information.

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  • TootSweet@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Lucky.

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• ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  For everyone from the real world, not fluent in regard units.

  12 inches = 1 foot 3 feet = 1 yard 22 yards = 1 chain 10 chains = 1 furlong 8 furlongs = 1 mile 3 miles = 1 league

  And here is my favourite 2 dimensional unit:

  1 furlong x 1 chain = 1 acre

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• blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  100° = really fuckin’ hot 0° = really fuckin’ cold

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  • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    0°C - pretty cold

    100°C - pretty hot, grab a beer with you and remember towel under your ass

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    • GeriatricGambino@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What’s the beer for? To be paired with the human ham I’ll turn into if I am exposed to 100 °C for too long?

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    • Redecco@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      0°C - water go hard 100°C - water make funny bubbles

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    • markz@suppo.fi ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      100 is too much. The sweet spot is somewhere around 80.

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  • ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It's the one part of Murica measurements that makes decent sense. Science aside I just want to know what to wear that day in a human scale.

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    • Rothe@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, celsius users will be like "I can't understand this scientific celsius scale, how can I possible know whether it is saying I should wear shorts or a big fur coat. I wish I had a human scale".

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• eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  fahrenheit seems to have a drinking problem

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• Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  0f, you just walked outside of a station in Antarctica

  100f, you walked outside in a city built in the middle of a desert during the daytime

  -40, the temperatures the same in f or c, but you’re not gonna like it regardless

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• AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Surely you can’t be serious‽

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  • PattyMcB@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes, and don’t call the Shirley

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• Gustephan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They call me heat miser Whatever I touch Starts to melt in my clutch!

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• betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• weirdbeardgame@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  90’s fine. Hell the 100’s are fine. It’s when you get to 110 and above that ded

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• bratorange@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Das hat er wohl aus unerFAHRENHEIT gemacht!

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  • TootSweet@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I had to use Google Translate creatively to get this joke, but I’m delighted none the less.

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