I'll actually make the argument since this post is kind of terrible:
Celsius is a naturalist temperature system, just like Kelvin. 0 and 100 degrees Celsius represent phase shifts of water. Systems like this work well for naturalist ends, such as scientific endeavors.
Fahrenheit, not even entirely* on purpose but as a matter of circumstance, ended up scaling numbers more favorably towards human experience. Dan's focus was composite (highly divisible) numbers. Why? Because humans actually hate speaking and looking at fractions and decimals. Round numbers, wherever they are, are easier for us to understand, measure, and mentally track. The central temperature difference being recorded for humans was to put 64 degrees between water freezing and average human body temperature.
Since 64 is 2^6, It's really, really easy to continuously divide on, say, a glass thermometer. You don't need precise measurements. Because the increments are so easy to bisect, a human is able to intuit the temperature distance between hot thing (internal body temp) and cold thing (water freezing)
Pure water freezing at 32 (2^5) means you can more easily intuit the temperature difference between different brine solutions (0 being the coldest mixture he could produce in his lab)
People that grew up on Fahrenheit don't typically know this trivia, but they understand the reality of the numbers. They *feel* it's easier to understand temperature differences (because the scale was made for them to mentally gauge, not perform hard calculations) They feel the temps 0 to 100 encompassing the general range of a human being's temperature experience to make better intuitive sense (If it's close to or under zero, I'm in danger. If it's close to or over 100, I'm in danger)
And as it turns out, while not exactly what they mentally imagine, Dan Fahrenheit was actually making the most human-friendly temperature system possible. While the "composite whole number" aspect of the system fell to more precise calculations later (human temps went from 96 to 98.6) the chosen range works excellently for mental/napkin math and rough estimates made while doing actually productive things requiring more of our attention/brain power.
Celsius and Kelvin fail in these categories. No offense to people adjusted to the Celsius longhouse, but we will keep our very human measurements. Not out of some irrational competition with Celsius, but because we psychologically favor them for non-scientific purposes 100% of the population is engaged with at all times.
And also because we do what we want. We're American. Our world, not yours lol.
Compare the way Tyler Robinson’s father immediately turned him in against the way that the killer of Henry Nowak’s family immediately instinctually lied to police to protect their son.
That’s the difference between Western civilization and failed states.
@RoKhanna It cannot be ignored. It must be amplified and multiplied until no illegal would ever choose the United States as a destination. Or any economic transient exploiter for that matter. Patriots only.
One of the many unseen side effects of all of these foreign savages in our country is things like this. My grandparents went to this preserve as kids. I have taken my children here. It was a beautiful peaceful place. Now it’s closed indefinitely because foreigners destroy everything they touch, just like in the countries they left.
@MattDickerson@JonErwin13 It was a small moment, but also important and suggestive of great things to come.
Keep up the great work! There are patriots within so many yearning to be inspired. Movies like Young Washington can change how America understands itself, for the better. Our history is incredible.
America’s first overseas war was fought to free its own citizens from slavery in North Africa. It’s why Marines say “the shores of Tripoli.”
Shores of Tripoli wd be a good movie.
Hannibal was ~28 years old when he crossed the Alps to invade Rome. Denzel Washington is 71 years old. Boomers need to accept they're not young anymore, they're not the Main Characters of History, and get out of the way. They had a good run. It's time for fresh blood.
It's national suicide that off-shoring hasn't been addressed yet. Our biggest tech companies are being hollowed out by Indian CEOs moving American jobs to India.
It's an order of magnitude worse than the hollowing out of our manufacturing base which destroyed small town America and it's happening right before our eyes.