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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do Americans measure everything in cups?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I brought up broccoli specifically because I recently wanted to know the nutrition facts of broccoli, and the initial google results were for 1 cup, and not 100g as is standard in I guess everywhere that uses metric. I have absolutely no idea how much broccoli that is, not only because I’m not used to it, but the dimensions of the cup and how finely chopped the broccoli is matter quite a lot in terms of how much actual broccoli we’re talking about. It’s just so ambiguous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do Americans measure everything in cups?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps that’s because it’s what you know best and are used to. Volumetric measurements of anything that doesn’t have a fixed density make no sense to me. What the hell is one cup of broccoli? Even a cup of flour can have wildly different ammounts of flour. My least favorite though is butter, how the hell am I supposed to measure out 3 tablespoons of butter? Melt it all on the stove and pour out what I need? I find it incredibly unintuitive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨temperature⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If anything it’ll be below 100 due to altitude. Salt water for making pasta boils still at approx 100 deg. C. It takes quite a lot of salt (way more than you would ever want to consume) to meaningfully raise the boiling point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨temperature⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You must be at altitude. That definitely makes a difference for the boiling point, but of course water freezes at 0. Impurities that you’ll encounter in tap water, for example, will not have a large effect on freezing point.

  Even if it was different by a few degrees, how does that make the scale any less intuitive?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨STEM⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know what fucking high school you went to, but we sure as shit didn’t cover stuff like partial differential equations and functional analysis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨STEM⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not at all. People (engineers?) seem to forget that experimental physicists exist

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨STEM⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What of experimental physicists?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You know how bad it needs to be to be ignored for over 2 decades!⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What formula are you using? And where did 25 come from? 2023-1997 = 26 and (26 / 36) x 100 = 72.2

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is cooking a food item method called different things by what the item is, or what is the criteria?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Poached and hard boiled eggs vary by more than just their boiling time. These names are much less about chemical processes and more about differences in technique. See other comments in this thread.