He was a German scientist in Poland, actually.

It isn’t about being “scared” of them, it is about them being used.

And we don’t just make forecasts, we report actual temperatures.

But whatever, you just want an air of superiority.

You go if you want to be precise as Fahrenheit is without decimals.

Yet weather reports rarely include them.

Fahrenheit was literally devised by a physicist, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, a European, mind you.

It was based on physical properties, too. Originally 0 was the freezing point of a replicable water solution, and 96 was set at human body temperature (96 used as it made dividing a thermometer easier). It was later recalibrated to put boiling at 212, 180 degrees from freezing, but that’s the original basis.

There is no god-ordained rule that states that 0 has to be the freezing point of water, nor 100 the boiling point.

Fahrenheit also has an inherent advantage to Celsius in that for every 5 degrees C there are 9 degrees F. There is more inherent precision.

November 6, 2000

Everything has been downhill since then.

Bluesky is far more user friendly and that’s why the people are going there. I get it, y’all love federation and ActivityPub, but no one wants to pick an instance, much less read a manifesto on decentralized social media. (Frankly, Lemmy has much of the same issues.)

I have had a Mastodon account since Elmo Muskrat bought Twitter, but it’s practically useless as few outside some specific IT-oriented users are on it. I got Bluesky, and it’s been way better as it attracts a larger variety of people.

Who said they don’t? I just find it hilarious that one of said idiotic opinions (cats should be vegan!) is the cause of so much controversy.

Vegans causing controversy. This is my complete lack of surprise.

So there mere presence of a man implies a lack of safety? It may be your feelings but it is also major misandry.

Star Trek. I want to live in a post-scarcity society with incredible technology.

Because there are a ton of jerks that don’t flush.

There absolutely would be support from Democrats and moderate Republicans. But he refuses to work with Democrats.

Your car travels almost exclusively on very expensive public roads and highways. License fees are used to help fund those roads. Many states have provisions to allow unlicensed vehicles on private property.

Also, cars in poor operating condition are dangerous and polluting. Many states have some combination of safety and/or emissions inspections as part of licensing.

Many states, especially where there are photo ID requirements, so offer free photo IDs. And pretty well every form I’ve filled out has been no more than a page in my state.