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If people from the US love the imperial system so much, why are their musicians using metronomes instead of footonomes? (kbin.social)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Of course they are pissed. In nature, it is common to see random stuff mixing together to get a cold temperature. Of course you’d define this as 0. Then you define freezing water as 32 and define a random person’s temperature to a even more random 96. Piece of cake.

How are these morons even able to understand that water is freezing approximately at 0c and boiling at 100c. This never happened ever in nature. Why choose something so unimportant to life like water?