phobiac

@phobiac@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thought-provoking⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wasn’t super clear but that’s what I was referring to with the “tried to kill people, and helped feed people instead”.

  When he tried to feed people he came up with what eventually was used to make Zyklon-B.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thought-provoking⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He tried to kill people and ended up helping feed the world, then he tried to feed people and ended up helping the Holocaust. The guy is a fascinating historical figure but definitely a was a monster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Burning Up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As I understand it, yes it was a saturated solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Burning Up⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re totally correct that Celsius is the more sensible scale with easier to replicate reference points (when using water). It was also invented almost 30 years after the Fahrenheit scale and with all the insights gained from that period of technological advancement. In fact in the modern day the Celsius degree size is defined in reference to the Boltzmann constant since Celsius is essentially the Kelvin scale with the numbers moved around.

  It also used 100 as the freezing point of water and 0 as the boiling point when originally proposed, which changed after Anders Celsius died because everyone knew that was a weird way to do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Burning Up⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It makes no sense because that’s not what the 0 of the Fahrenheit scale is. The 0 point is the coldest an ammonium chloride brine mixture can be cooled to. The 90 point was an estimated average for human body temperature (it was adjusted up over time). These were chosen because the goal of the scale was to provide a way for people to have a defined temperature scale with a range and degree size that could be reliably reproduced without passing around standardized tools. 100 is really hot because human bodies were used as a reference for the high end, but the low end has nothing to do with the human body.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shits these days⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a two pack, so $5 per cap. Slightly less ridiculous for a niche tool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨party time⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This same fungal infection causes the males to have sex until their butts fall off, so I’m pretty sure some humans would seek it out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brought to you by the vertical mouse gang⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You just have a bad trackball. My Kensington Expert glides smooth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon anti Union propaganda⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No concerns about the company management being corrupt and working against your interests, though?