Tell me that you are American without telling me you are American
this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2024
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Now, now you get your People pass cancelled.
Ok.
"Hey. Come over and get some BBQ and food that doesn't look like sad beans. We can talk about how boring a soccer game is when one team leads and they just play keep away for 40 minutes. Man, this corn on the cob is so good. Sure glad my teeth are straight so I can eat it super easy. Anyone else enjoy having a complete global dominance on movies, tv, and pop culture? How about the internet?"
Careful not to burn yourself at that BBQ 'cos you'll have to go into debt to afford a sticking plaster. That is if any gathering of Americans larger than two doesn't just immediately devolve into a mass shooting again. Maybe you'll see a weather balloon and have to hide indoors from the Chinese.
LMAO, this clown is acting like american food is real food.
Kelvin is for scientists.
Celsius is for people.
Fahrenheit is a translation layer between Celsius and Americans. All their weather stations have been Celsius for ages, it's a societal decision to use an arbitrary unit instead. The "69F censoring" which turned out to be a rounding artefact illustrated that nicely. Their government could change that, power to them that they decide not to 🤷♂️
Americans always regurgite the "Fahrenheit is how people feel" nonsense, but it is just that: nonsense. Americans are familiar with fahrenheit so they think that it is more inituitive than other systems, but unsurprisingly people who are used to celsius have no problems using it to measure "how people feel" and will think it is a very inituitive system.
I mean, you're 100% wrong. Fahrenheit isn't "how people feel" arbitrarily, it's almost literally a 0-100 scale of how hot it is outside. You need no prior knowledge to interpret a Fahrenheit measurement. Which really reflects poorly on everyone who says "Fahrenheit doesn't make any sense" because if they were capable of any thought at all they would figure it out in 2 seconds, like everyone else. I'm a lab rat that uses Celsius all day every day, I'm just not a pretentious stuck up tool about alternate measurements just because I refuse to understand them.
What you grew up with makes sense to you. Shock!
Nah, it doesn't make any sense, and isn't deep or insightful at all.
What’s the flaw??
"Fahrenheit is how people feel" only makes sense if said people have never used another scale. You know how 100F "feels" because that's what you use. If you used Celsius you'd know how that scale feels instead, and be used to using the more useful scale generally.
See also: people who think they don't have an accent.
Notice how the tweet doesn’t say “all people”. Context is everywhere and everything.
Notice how the tweet doesn't say "American people". Accuracy is everything.